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eh, maybe Will. Some of the bailouts are going to be straight spending, because the bastard corporations are gonna figure out a way to not pay the money back if they survive. And of course, some of the corporations will probably fail even with the bailout money (as I think GM/Chrysler would) and so that, too, will be straight spending.
But I think you missed a larger issue. It's not just investing in the companies with the expectation of a payoff down the road. It's investing in the /country/ with the expectation of a payoff down the road. If we all wanna be like Germany was after World War 1, where it takes a wheelbarrow of money to buy a loaf of bread, then I can see where we'd be pissed off at the government spending. But if we want the possibility of a strong economy again, then we have to invest now, which means spending money.
The tea parties were really thrown by Fox News and other conservative groups who WANT to bankrupt the country because they WANT to change the US into a peasant economy where the few rich landowners have all the resources and everyone else is poor. We've listened to those bozos for 30 years. I think it's time we stop.
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