Tuesday, February 17, 2009

B. Brakefield Assignment 4

In this article "States and Cities in Scramble for Stimulus Cash" by Monica Davey. Davey is explaining about when President Obama signs the stimulus bill on Tuesday "it will be the biggest influx of federal dollars since the days of President Lyndon B. Johnson’s Great Society program" in the New York Times. But good has to come with the bad too, Davey states that it will set off a mulitude of politcal battles. I think this article was written to the public to show that its not all peaches and cream when this money is being given out, and its not going to make everything all better. There is more that meets the eye to this situation.
Everyone keeps saying just get a stimulus check to balance everything out and it will all be ok. Davey is arguing that this is not going to be easy. Its going to be difficult to distribute the money properly without causing rioits. Davey list all the different programs and things some of our states need help on. How is the Government going to choose what and how much goes where?