Alright, so the stimulus package, straight outta Obama’s new-deal-esque plans for reforming the United States, has just passed the House. In case you aren’t familiar with the American legislative process, the bill now is up in the Senate, where they will deliberate a bit and vote to pass it or not. If it passes the Senate, it goes to President Obama, and he’ll either sign it into law or he’ll veto it, but at this juncture he’ll be doing the former as opposed to the latter. Then, it’s law. If it doesn’t pass the Senate, it’ll go back to the House to be redrafted, reworked, rewritten and revoted on, then it’s back to the Senate again.

Pretty redundant, huh?

The cool thing about the American legislative process is that it’s somewhat difficult to pass controversial bills, or things that might piss a lot of people off. Obviously, there have been mistakes, namely the Smoot-Hawley Tariff and the Embargo Act, but those were a long time ago and aren’t really worth thinking about in this context. What we should be focusing on is where that money is going, and with all the changes going on in the bill, who knows where all that money is headed? All we know is that some of it better be going to Detroit.

Detroit is in trouble, folks. You know it, they know it, I know it, Obama knows, Britain knows it, the guys on the ISS know it – it’s just the way it is. We’ve talked about this enough to realize that, and there’s going to need to be reforms if we’re going to fix it. But we need money first, and the only way that Detroit is going to get money is from the government, so let’s all hope that Detroit gets some of that stimulus package, because it could possibly be nighty-night for the automakers there if they don’t. And we all know what’ll happen to this country if the companies in Detroit go down, so let’s not think about it.