Say you’ve got a salesman trying to sell you on a product, or package of products and services, that will cost you $825 billion (give or take a few billion of course), wouldn’t you want to know what you’re getting for that amount of money?  I know that when I go to purchase something I want to know what I am getting for what I am paying.  It is probably safe to say that this type of reasonable thinking is common to millions of Americans.  It is common sense, if you will.

Although the scarcity of common sense in Washington, D.C. is a spectical many of us are familiar with, it was on display in a very real way recently during a House Ways and Means Committee hearing on the proposed federal stimulus package being pushed through Congress by the Democratic majorities in both chambers.  When probed about the number of jobs that the stimulus would create, and the type of economic growth we could expect as a result of spending $825 billion, a committee staffer who was supposed to know these kinds of things was unable to say how many jobs would be created or what kind of growth would occur.

Take a look at the exchange:

So we are going to spend $825 billion and we don’t know what we are going to get.  This is not hope, it is recklessness.   This is not change, it is irresponsibility.