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Prabha Shah

















Small Businesses Not Seeing Impact of Stimulus Package

As a cynic, I view Obama's Stimulus Package more as a mounting future debt, then as an immediate fix for a struggling economy. Although there is a lot of good in the package, namely Democrats taking advantage of a rare consolidation of political power and fixing the crumbling infrastructure that has been ignored for decades, the wealth generating prospects seem a little dim.

If you view large construction projects as a way to get people working again and as vital to maintaining small companies around the country, there is a slight problem. There are very few "little guys" who can actually benefit from taking on massive reconstruction projects. For example, who is capable of fixing a county's sewer lines or rebuilding the support framework of a bridge? The guy down the road or a huge corporate construction beast?

This situation is eerily reminscent of the reconstruction being done (or recently attempted) in Iraq. Obviously, taking on projects of such mass volume are left only to the huge firms capable of handling such a job. Unfortunately, the prospects of the stimulus package could result in yet another case of the rich getting richer.

And speaking of volume...and huge...





















Nation Buys Porn With Stimulus Package

Much like the people who cashed last year's stimulus check and then flooded Wal-Mart looking for a new TV, the new stimulus is generating more wealth for people who don't need it in the first place. And seriously, how has "Stimulus Package" not been associated with a porn title yet? I could totally see the porn star who portrays Sarah Palin involved. Get to work on this, California.

And more volume...

GM Not the Only Struggling Car Maker

If only India had their own version of Obama. I thought Tata Motors was supposed to be strong. Aren't they supposed to be building more fuel efficient cars? Either the need to burn fuel is ingrained in our human psyches, or maybe size does matter when it comes to cars.

Double entendres...can't get enough.