There Are Things That Can Be Done

One of the things which Jared Bernstein stressed awhile back when I met with him was that until being in this situation he hadn't appreciated just how difficult it would be to actually try to administer the massive fiscal stimulus that they were administering. I appreciate that, especially for an administration rightly concerned that any waste and corruption, real or imaginary, would be used to bludgeon them politically. Basically Jared said it's actually kind of hard to shovel hundreds of billions of dollars out the door. I'm sure this is true, but right now we're in recession, tons of people are unemployed and what's needed is somebody, anybody, spending lots of money. I'll happily offer up my rather filthy urban hellhole to be the recipient of a large street cleaning grant, and those sewer pipes aren't going to replace themselves.