By Marion Edwyn Harrison, Esq.
Feb 28, 2009
$50 Billion Daily But Only $246 Million Over 11 Years to Stimulate Hollywood? Senator Thomas Allen Coburn (R-OK) or Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., as he usually styles himself, truly is a taxpayers’ hero. His latest achievement strikes a taxpayer-giveaway the very description of which probably is the closest to humor anything in the monstrous “stimulus” package contains. “Believe it or not,” with apologies to Robert Ripley, the stimulus legislation as proposed includes the sum of $246 million to be dished out in a certain fashion to Hollywood - over the next eleven years.
Perhaps the definition of stimulus is to be so broad as to include irritation, sardonic humor and longevity. Does this inclusion in the $820 billion (or whatever the final figure may be) package portend a continuation of our recession or depression for eleven years? One WEBSTER definition of the noun stimulus is “something that rouses or incites to activity.
Feb 28, 2009
$50 Billion Daily But Only $246 Million Over 11 Years to Stimulate Hollywood? Senator Thomas Allen Coburn (R-OK) or Senator Tom Coburn, M.D., as he usually styles himself, truly is a taxpayers’ hero. His latest achievement strikes a taxpayer-giveaway the very description of which probably is the closest to humor anything in the monstrous “stimulus” package contains. “Believe it or not,” with apologies to Robert Ripley, the stimulus legislation as proposed includes the sum of $246 million to be dished out in a certain fashion to Hollywood - over the next eleven years.
Perhaps the definition of stimulus is to be so broad as to include irritation, sardonic humor and longevity. Does this inclusion in the $820 billion (or whatever the final figure may be) package portend a continuation of our recession or depression for eleven years? One WEBSTER definition of the noun stimulus is “something that rouses or incites to activity.
