http://www.mikecritelli.com/2009/07/19/why-the-u-s-stimulus-legislation-has-not-worked-as-yet/ Mike Critelli's Blog Mon, 01 Mar 2010 16:43:18 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9.2 hourly 1 http://www.mikecritelli.com/2009/07/19/why-the-u-s-stimulus-legislation-has-not-worked-as-yet/comment-page-1/#comment-3914 Untitled « Terence in Monochrome Mon, 20 Jul 2009 16:17:33 +0000 http://www.mikecritelli.com/?p=331#comment-3914 [...] As a society, we have to decide whether government exists to serve its citizens or to be a conduit for money from its citizens to resourceful and politically well-connected special interests, whether they be state employees, politically powerful contractors, lawyers, lobbyists, government affairs consultants, or engineering and design firms.  It’s nice to contemplate an idealized world in which none of these factors play a role, but it’s not the world we live in today, and it won’t be the world our children live in unless we do something about it. via mikecritelli.com [...] [...] As a society, we have to decide whether government exists to serve its citizens or to be a conduit for money from its citizens to resourceful and politically well-connected special interests, whether they be state employees, politically powerful contractors, lawyers, lobbyists, government affairs consultants, or engineering and design firms.  It’s nice to contemplate an idealized world in which none of these factors play a role, but it’s not the world we live in today, and it won’t be the world our children live in unless we do something about it. via mikecritelli.com [...]

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