Lind – stimulus or ‘biggest appropriations bill’?

Michael Lind wants Obama and Congress to keep focus and goals as they discuss an economic stimulus program:

The purpose of the stimulus – getting money into the economy, fast – is lost, if it turns into the world's biggest ordinary appropriations bill, with something to placate every lobby and sect inside the Beltway.

Good thought. Read the full essay, written with Phil Angelides.

Stimulus package highlights.