Patently, the Stimulus was in large measure intended as a slush fund for various projects that couldn’t get funded if named. Consider that some $6.4 BILLION went to 440 Congressional districts that don’t exist.
Where could that money have gone? That is no clerical error. Let’s consider some possibilities. First, it seems virtually certain that that money will find its way into the hands of various leftist activist groups, like ACORN. It will fund the agitation (which we might define as “resentment building”) of community organizers.
It could, with some care, quite easily find its way into various lobbying and election funds. It can be disbursed to individuals, then recontributed in amounts small enough that no documentation is needed.
It could be used to fund political research that is used for “message refinement”, which is to say lying more skillfully, based on more complete knowledge of what people want to hear.
It could be used for outright bribes of key officials in influential positions, which may not take the form of outright payments, but maybe contract preferences, or jobs for family and friends, or vacations, or houses, or boats.
Or, if one wants to take a more conspiratorial, paranoid stance (the foregoing, regrettably, all seems eminently plausible for a disciple of Saul Alinsky), what about high tech spying tools? Software to map social networks, to discern patterns of internet use and thereboy isolate political “deviants” (non-leftists)?
What about the paranoics obsession: mind control? Hear me out: what if technologies could be developed that were able to alter behavior patterns through subliminal elements in your computer or TV? It apparently worked for selling popcorn. Frankly, getting Obama elected in the first place was a triumph of deviousness. What if those same people now had tens of millions to play with in labs?
As an example, look at this piece.
No doubt, most Americans don’t want to think about these things, but I will offer a historical reminder: Communism happened. It is happening today in North Korea and Cuba, and has been used to deny basic human rights to a billion Chinese.