STIMULUS PLAN!

I have said little about the apparent outrageous waste that has evolved from the Federal Government various "Stimulus" Plans. But, this seems to be way over the top in its obvious waste of public funds, even for the present administration.

Washington DC office of Tourism has launched a campaign using, I believe, $200,000 in Stimulus money to promote tourist ideas for lovers. As part of this "plan" they have hired Dr. Ruth, a sex expert as the head of this effort. The idea is to promote interesting events for lovers to participate in (cozy dinners, etc) in order to increase tourism in the DC area.

I think that this is a very poorly conceived promotion especially in light of the very poor economy, high unemployment, and general public dissatisfaction with the performance of the Administration and Congress. It begins to sound similar to the prattling of a former Queen of France and her empty headed remarks about the plight of the poor in Paris (Let them eat cake if they do not have any bread). I believe that her reference was to a substance called "Cak" which was a mixture of flower left at the bottom of bake ovens and not to the soft delicacy that she was so fond.