Comments about ‘National Security Agency data center at Camp Williams drawing huge interest in Utah’

Even in Utah, where folks have ripped stimulus spending, federal spending is wanted. Lofty principles are subordinate to paying the bills. The same would be true for folks who lose their health insurance benefits. A government system would start looking real good if health insurance was not subsidized by an employer.

Come on, friend. This billion-dollar NSA project has nothing to do with the stimulus plan. Federal, state and local government is the biggest employer in the land, and better than 35% of GDP.

Utah's a conservative State, that's true. But I don't think that means that to be logically consistent we have to be opposed to selling our goods or services to government entities.

My complaint with the stimulus plan wasn't that it was the government doing the spending, rather that it was spent in such a willy-nilly fashion, thereby increasing our Federal debt in ill-considered ways.

As for the specter of 100s of small construction companies lining up to put their name in the hat, consider that in Utah the construction industry has been the most effected by the recession. Three out of every jobs lost in Utah during the recession were construction or manufacturing jobs.

However bad the recession has been for wherever it is that you work, the construction business has had it much, much, worse.

Come the revolution.

Re: "My complaint with the stimulus plan wasn't that it was the government doing the spending . . ."

That SHOULD be your complaint. "Stimulus" is a phony word to apply to a program that takes money out of the economy, then, to "stimulate" it, puts some of the money back into the economy.

That's not a stimulus of the economy, it's only a limited moderation of the depresion of the economy produced by the tax in the first place.

If you really wanted to stimulate the economy -- lower taxes.

It has worked EVERY time it's been tried. 100% success rate.

Government "stimulus" plans -- like Carter's CETA program, FDR's WPA and CCC programs -- and this NSA center -- have ALL failed. EVERY time. 100% failure rate.

So, when government tells us it's out to "stimulate" the economy by gifting our money to some of its major voting constituencies -- hold onto your wallet!

Stimulus is the last thing on the government's mind.