To the editor:

I just read Scott Rothschild’s article on stimulus spending. What a one-sided liberal position on the front page two weeks before the midterm election. Of course our Republican congressional delegation opposed the trillion-dollar mammoth of a liberal social spending bill. They put up the good fight, but lost to Obama and his fellow Democrats as they shoved the stimulus bill down our throat.

Now that generations of Kansans, including those yet to be born, are stuck with the bill, it’s only right that we get a small fraction of the pie. Every one of the projects mentioned in the article sounded like solid infrastructure projects. Remember there was only $50 billion allotted for infrastructure spending (the so-called “shovel ready” projects Obama talked about), the other $950 billion went to social spending. All of that money is gone forever, unlike the Bush bailout or troubled asset relief program (TARP), where most of the money has already been paid back to the U.S. Treasury with interest.