And as more and more taxpayer money goes to unnecessary and inefficient projects, we are only told that the effort is working, we're saving jobs and President Obama has us on the right track.
He might need a little bit more of your money to get us all the way there, of course, but that's only because what we're doing is accomplishing so much.
I don't know about you, but I'm tired of this. Real people are struggling to keep their jobs and to make ends meet. Real people are circling ad after ad in the Sunday paper praying this time, please, let it work. Real people are seeing their tax dollars frittered away on foolishness. Real people and real problems should not be made into political semantics.
On one level, it makes for an entertaining story. Heard the one about my brother-in-law taking one of those stimulus jobs? Yeah, he had to move to Missouri's 83rd District to take it. It was only after he arrived he found Missouri only had nine.
Yet on every other level this is the sad story, already grown stale in the repeating, of an administration which promises things it cannot deliver and then backs away from responsibility.