Fridays or the end of the week are always a special day....a group of us that have met for years

meet at an old (tho remodeled) restaurant and have breakfast...two of the fellas are very much

Democrats and are delighted that BHO is now president...one was talking about the "stimulus"

package and insisted that the funds going to LAUSD should be dribbled out over several years.

I pointed out that the purpose of the stimulus is to stimulate the economy and it could be

explained in the following manner...in the backyard of my grandparents was a well and water

pump...hanging on the pump, with a special hook , put there by the manufacturer of the pump

was a bucket with a long handled cup...the pumps had a handle that you moved (jacked) up

and down which drew up the water...but before you started pumping for the water you had to

dip the cup into the water and pour it into the top of the pump...there was a leather gasket at the

top that tended to dry out and shrink...the water poured from the cup made the leather wet

and expanded it, making the seal tight and hence you would draw up water when you pumped

it...that is what the stimulated the pump...water poured over it...by dribbling out the funds in

BHO's stimulus over 3 or more years it is like using a medicine dropper instead of the tin cup

to prime the pump...