Bottlenecks

by Leigh Graham · 2009-02-06 12:00:00 UTC
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As more people file for unemployment, budget cuts have left fewer administrators to assist them.

Good times.

NPR has a really hopeful piece on Obama's social policy vision embedded in the stimulus:

Obama "is using the stimulus bill to begin to reverse a "40-year drift away from the more or less idealistic hope that government would make things better."

[snip]

Expanded government-financed health care. Big infusions of money into education. Significant attention to so-called green initiatives. And a commitment to rebuilding the nation's infrastructure.

"These are the principal building blocks of the domestic agenda he articulated..."

Yes, but will we get there?  He's non-ideological and believes in incrementalism.  I can accept that, but honestly, is it really enough right now?

Who knows...by the time you're reading this, will the stimulus have passed the Senate?  What will remain in the bill?

This is a positive note to end on for the week: school districts are finding new and better ways to get free breakfasts to kids.  Here's hoping we've got some good news on the stimulus now too - so we can get aid to the states to deliver those benefits, and start implementing Obama's social policy agenda A.S.A.P.

Leigh Graham
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