Oh joy! Utah is getting $4 billion of the "stimulus package" handouts. It is part of all that free money being generated magically in Washington these days and is being greeted as if it were a great blessing.

Doesn't anyone there have any common sense?

The process was best described by a man who said: "Getting money from government is like having a blood transfusion from one of your arms to the other — with the tube passing through Washington, where there is a large leak."

Getting $4 billion from Washington equals several times that much we will pay in future taxes and inflation, which will be stolen from our savings and any other assets we have.

Lew Burnham

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