What happens when the stimulus runs out?
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The Seattle Times
Letters to the editor
06/30/2010
Editor, The Times:
The headline of Wednesday's Seattle Times looks right through the legs of the elephant in the living room and says: "Growing reluctance to add to deficit means there's nowhere to turn" ["Economists fear retreat when stimulus runs dry," page one, June 30].
There is somewhere to turn. We should focus on the elephant. Then headlines would read: "Washington taxpayers have paid over ten times more for the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan than they have received in the last year for stimulus money."
Your article says Washington has received $2 billion in stimulus funds while National Priorities Project notes that Washington taxpayers have spent well over $22 billion for the wars. The funds are coming out of our pockets and are being funneled into killing Americans and local people in the Middle East rather than saving jobs and lives at home.
— Ruth Yarrow, Seattle
