I haven’t said much about the economic stimulus package that will be voted on tomorrow because I’m not really sure I understand it.  It seems to be changing as it goes.  There is a short article at AskHeritage.org detailing the amount of the bill and some of its effects. 

According to the article, passage of this bill would add $6,700 in debt to every household in America.  Barack Obama is stating that spending $800 billion will create 3.7 million new jobs.  This works out to a cost of over $200,000 per job.  Where can I go to find a job like that?

Basically, the plan has a lot of pork–it transfers wealth from the private sector to the government, which is not the way to grow an economy.  We have learned from history that growth comes when you shrink government–not when you grow it.