February 20th, 2009:

via VIDEO: Group counters stimulus with Jesus in TV ad – Jonathan Martin – Politico.com.

After watching liberal allies of President Barack Obama flood the airwaves in support of the stimulus bill, a third-party group is countering with a provocative new commercial using Jesus Christ to emphasize the scale of the $787 billion package.

The American Issues Project, which briefly aired a TV spot in last year’s presidential race, will go up on Friday with a TV spot that marks the dollars spent with the passage of time.

“Suppose you spent $1 million every single day starting from the day Jesus was born — and kept spending through today,” says the announcer as an image of the three wise men flashes on the screen. “A million dollars a day for more than 2,000 years. You would still have spent less money than Congress just did.”

Here’s the video:

Okay, the math is good, but there are facts that the advertisement conveniently omits.

The price tag for the stimulus which is so vehemently touted as biblical in size can be compared to approximately less than two years worth of defense spending,  counting the cost of the two wars which are kept on separate books.Yawn.

Another thing that the ad omits is that the government, which is we the people, will get a nice return on every dollar spent on infrastructure no matter how “tiny”. The return in some cases will equate to three dollars back for every dollar spent. You can’t do that with defense spending. Once a bomb is dropped, it causes more monetary loss than the initial cost of the bomb. Build a school, the rewards go on and on.

The next thing that is omitted is the explanation of the pace at which the money is to be spent. The advertisement infers that Congress has already spent this money. The truth is that these funds will be distributed over a period of time, not all at once. Each sector of our economy and the government department agencies all have their own time schedule and particular sets of circumstances for the distribution of funds and would be impossible to list here. But here is a brief on how the Department of Education is planning their stimulus.

Another ommission in the ad is the confession that one third of the stimulus is in the form of corporate and middle class tax cuts. The total spending on tax cuts in the stimulus bill would equate to spending one million dollars per day from the year 1349 until today.