Our would-be FDRs?

Comments on David Burchell “History, but only as we choose to remember it”, 31/08/2009, http://www.theaustralian.news.com.au/story/0,25197,26003033-5015664,00.html

I agree totally and completely with the following:

"Our would-be FDRs, by adopting the mantle of nation-building without really comprehending its original purpose, have in effect played a joke upon themselves and us."

One is reminded of the essay of our own would-be FDR at the home ground about the economic crisis, some sort of attempt to write the history.

Billions and billions will be wasted, just in the political name of jobs, without cost and benefit analysis at all. Every spending and waste is justified by them with the name of maintaining and creating jobs, though the effects on jobs are a different story altogether.

Why as long as jobs are mentioned, all prudence is put aside? Where is government accountability?

We need honesty from politicians and government. They should stop using endless spins for their political advantages and advancing their own interest in the name of jobs.