Advocacy Analysis - powerpoint presentation prepared. This is the abridged version of the powerpoint:

The Stimulus Package
$600,000 on each job?

Does this make sense?

Alan Reynolds wrote an article in The Wall Street Journal, taking aim at this legislation: “Spending $214.5 billion to create or save 330,400 government jobs implies that taxpayers are being asked to spend $646,214 per job” (January, 2009).

He then asks a rhetorical question: “Does that make sense?” Indeed, it does not. Noble intentions vanished in the midst of the government’s obscene expenditures.

People have lost their jobs and are now losing their homes to foreclosure all because of greed and gross overspending.


We are a country drowning in debt yet our government leaders continue to spend money they simply do not have.




With great bravado, the government has engaged in a do as I say and not as I do-type of attitude.

Funding was squandered in grotesque and insincere ways on wasteful projects that were surreptitiously placed on the bill at the last minute by greedy politicians.


Perhaps the public would feel better about the stimulus package if it were not so furtive. Secretive meetings were held behind closed doors of senators and representatives as the bill was being tinkered with.

Later, they appeared on the evening news desperately trying to appear diaphanous and charitable to gain public support for their own hidden agendas.

There was nothing transparent about the process, nor the host of special favors being written in the bill at the eleventh hour.