Before you swallow Olympia’s claims, check the fine print. Stimulus plans that supposedly fund infrastructure may be providing bigger culverts for fish rather than better roads or ports for private enterprise.

You’ve heard the radio commercials and seen the sign-spinners trying to compel you to take a financial risk that may well be unwise. But some of your legislators have caught the bug. They hope to goose our state’s economy by borrowing against future tax revenues and spending the money on, well, stuff that people will get paid to do.

It’s a classic “seen and unseen” problem—but we’ll talk about that in a future video. This one is about borrowing money—a good warning for you to pass along to friends and neighbors so that they don’t get caught up in Olympia’s happy talking but short-sighted ways.

Free people are not required to get licenses—government permission—to engage in consensual activities on private property. Just when we thought the state has licenses for just about everything.

Now she has a future.