Monica Dawey of the New York Times is writting about Obama's Stimulus package he recently signed. Wanting to know how the money is going to be spent? Who decides where it goes? Saving jobs? working on roads? working on our education system? And if you answer these questions it just brings up new ones! Who jobs will be saved the teachers or the firefighter? Which towns/citys need the most money to fix their roads? and finnaly if its spent on schools do we give more money to the inner-city schools to improve them or to the suburb schools to maintain them? These are just a few of the issues to be discussed within are goverment over the next few weeks.
I belive that before Obama signed this stimulus package that we should have had an outline of how the 800 billion was to be divided up and spent on some of our country's problems. Its simiular to what Madison Powers wrote in her article "Trade-Offs in the Stimulus Package" that we need to focus on the smaller problems and not everything as a whole. Passing a bill to send 800 billion dollars out with no real plan of who is getting the money or how it is to be spent, is not the best plan. We don't need to look at all the issues as a whole but break them down individually and take a realistic look at what needs to be done in each area, and then move from their. Not send out the money and then dicide on who needs it the most.
