Analysis: Can Uncle Sam spend cash fast enough? - Yahoo! News

Obama’s economic recovery plan depends on swiftly pumping hundreds of billions of federal dollars into the economy to create jobs. The focus is on tax cuts and government spending that can provide an immediate lift to the economy.

However, the $675 billion-$775 billion plan emerging in talks between Obama’s team and Democratic allies in Congress also appears to contain lots of money that won’t be spent for years — like for water projects, rebuilding the electric grid and buying billions of dollars of computers and software for the health care sector. Much of that money won’t get spent until the economy starts growing again.

That’s because it’s not a true recovery effort. It’s merely the biggest lefty financial Christmas tree in history, upon which crazed Democrats (and their GOP enablers) plan to dangle every piece of tinselly crap they can dream up.

Yeah, you’ve got an Al Franken Center for the History of Clown Comedy in your distant future, Minnesota. It should be completed just before he runs for re-election, and it will be built entirely of ground sausage.

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