Lobbyists and pork-barreling politicians are opportunists, always trying to hitch their wagons to the latest political trends. A few years ago, the issue was national security. A few months ago, the fashionable political trend was “infrastructure.” Now, suddenly, it is “economic stimulus.”
The Bush-Pelosi stimulus plan calls for giving millions of people $600 each. This is going to do practically nothing about the recession we are entering, but both Republicans and Democrats want to look like they are doing something, anything, about the economy.
