A woman asks her husband if they can afford to buy a $800 pair of shoes. “No way are you getting those shoes” is the reply. She then says she has found a similar pair on sale for $200. He agrees knowing that the $200 price is 25% of the pair she originally wanted.

The wife is emotionally satisfied that she has new shoes, and the husband is dumb and happy…dumb because she didn’t need the shoes in the first place.

How are the shoes in this story any different than the Democrat’s stimulus package with the taxpayers playing the part of the dumb husband. Republicans will complain about the provision for contraceptives and family planning. They might even get the billion for ACORN stripped from the bill. When the bill comes out, the Republicans will say how much they have done for the taxpayers, the Obama Administration will be touting how they came to a bipartisan consensus and the taxpayers will be happy our government didn’t waste money on condoms when they purchased a billion pair of unneeded shoes.

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