We have a few trillion we're going to have to spend over the next 5 years on infrastructure, anyway. Why not use stimulus money ?

If we really put the bucks and incentives into it millions of jobs and much less pollution.

- High paying jobs

- helps stimulate ALL sectors of the economy

- Prepares the nation long-term for growth.

Preferably all three.




(a girl can dream....)

Dream on, we can make it happen.

Ride it to zero....

In areas that the largest amount of people see the benefit provided the investment has proven to be efficient in implementation.


The fewer people that realize the eventual benefit, the less important the stimulus in that area should be. If the investment has a track record of success, the format should be rewarded with continuous funding and further analyzed for replication in areas that have proven to be inefficient.


Then again, our President can explain this much better than I can. A portion of his 2008 Democratic Convention acceptance speech:

America, now is not the time for small plans.

Now is the time to finally meet our moral obligation to provide every child a world-class education, because it will take nothing less to compete in the global economy. Michelle and I are only here tonight because we were given a chance at an education. And I will not settle for an America where some kids don't have that chance. I'll invest in early childhood education. I'll recruit an army of new teachers, and pay them higher salaries and give them more support. And in exchange, I'll ask for higher standards and more accountability. And we will keep our promise to every young American - if you commit to serving your community or your country, we will make sure you can afford a college education.

Now is the time to finally keep the promise of affordable, accessible health care for every single American. If you have health care, my plan will lower your premiums. If you don't, you'll be able to get the same kind of coverage that members of Congress give themselves. And as someone who watched my mother argue with insurance companies while she lay in bed dying of cancer, I will make certain those companies stop discriminating against those who are sick and need care the most.

Now is the time to help families with paid sick days and better family leave, because nobody in America should have to choose between keeping their jobs and caring for a sick child or ailing parent.

Now is the time to change our bankruptcy laws, so that your pensions are protected ahead of CEO bonuses; and the time to protect Social Security for future generations.

And now is the time to keep the promise of equal pay for an equal day's work, because I want my daughters to have exactly the same opportunities as your sons.

Now, many of these plans will cost money, which is why I've laid out how I'll pay for every dime - by closing corporate loopholes and tax havens that don't help America grow. But I will also go through the federal budget, line by line, eliminating programs that no longer work and making the ones we do need work better and cost less - because we cannot meet twenty-first century challenges with a twentieth century bureaucracy.

And Democrats, we must also admit that fulfilling America's promise will require more than just money. It will require a renewed sense of responsibility from each of us to recover what John F. Kennedy called our "intellectual and moral strength." Yes, government must lead on energy independence, but each of us must do our part to make our homes and businesses more efficient. Yes, we must provide more ladders to success for young men who fall into lives of crime and despair. But we must also admit that programs alone can't replace parents; that government can't turn off the television and make a child do her homework; that fathers must take more responsibility for providing the love and guidance their children need.

Individual responsibility and mutual responsibility - that's the essence of America's promise.

I'm a chemist (so I'm a little biased) but if we were to invest anything on the scale of a fraction of he defense budget on fundamental research, we'd secure our place as a leader in the world once again. Immagine what we would look like if we spent 100 billion a year in just raw research? Heavy science jobs are high paying jobs. Immagine what that would do for our economy, not to mention the spin-off technologies and American businesses that would benifit.