Comments on: Time to smack the House Dems http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/02/04/93/ Back in the old days -- that's less than a decade and before there were such things as blogs and interactive conversations with readers -- editors used to respond to their newspaper readers with an "editor's note." Sometimes it clarified a point made in a letter to the editor. Sometimes it offered a correction. Sometimes it was just a simple explanation. An editor's note was a handful of sentences; maybe a four or five paragraphs. It was always a personal link between the editor and the reader. Only difference between it and today's blog is the immediacy and the platform. Welcome to Editor's Note. Sat, 20 Mar 2010 13:18:00 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=wordpress-mu-1.2.4 By: Egyas http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/02/04/93/#comment-242 Egyas Wed, 04 Feb 2009 19:15:12 +0000 http://blogs.e-rockford.com/editorsnote/2009/02/04/93/#comment-242 I agree Linda, some head smacking is in order. As a conservative (and one who believes in dramatically reducing the federal government, not expanding it) I disagree with many of the items they put in this "stimulus" package. Our "leaders" in DC should be working on a package that will actually stimulate the economy, not just dramatically expanding government spending. Many of the pork-filled items in this bill are social programs, and changes related to "social spending". These do not stimulate a sagging economy. I will not debate the merits of these items, but let us accept that many of these are priorities for many of the Dems in power at the moment. Fine. I just wish that they would have the stones to try and get them through HONESTLY. Work together on your stimulus bill if you must and get it through. Then send your social programs on their own. Let Congress (which the Dems basically own right now) vote on them on their own merits. Or are they afraid that if they don't try to push it through hidden under the skirts of another bill they will not get their social dreams answered? I agree Linda, some head smacking is in order. As a conservative (and one who believes in dramatically reducing the federal government, not expanding it) I disagree with many of the items they put in this “stimulus” package.

Our “leaders” in DC should be working on a package that will actually stimulate the economy, not just dramatically expanding government spending.

Many of the pork-filled items in this bill are social programs, and changes related to “social spending”. These do not stimulate a sagging economy. I will not debate the merits of these items, but let us accept that many of these are priorities for many of the Dems in power at the moment. Fine. I just wish that they would have the stones to try and get them through HONESTLY.

Work together on your stimulus bill if you must and get it through. Then send your social programs on their own. Let Congress (which the Dems basically own right now) vote on them on their own merits. Or are they afraid that if they don’t try to push it through hidden under the skirts of another bill they will not get their social dreams answered?

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