Closing Arguments: Obama’s Bipartisan Play

Of course the Republicans want more tax cuts – continue the policies that helped create the economic disaster we now face!

If bipartisan politics cannot be put aside now, when? In my opinion, there is never an appropriate time for partisan politics. Let’s get on with what’s best for restoring the dignity and well-being of our country and all Americans.

the republicans are right to say “no” to Obama’s plan if they disagree that it is the best thing to do for the country. That is the beauty of our system. We can disagree. I don’t think the solution is to spend more taxpayer money.

The stimulus plan looks pretty good to me and it looks good at our state level: NC .
I’m glad President Obama’s not spending more on tax cuts. I feel he has compromised on productive investments too much already with the current level of planned tax cuts.
It’s not clear the current Republican leadership in the House will agree to anything reasonable.

Trust….but verify!

Hell no they shouldn’t “go along”…..Someone needs to stop this from getting out of hand. Add a Trillion dollars to the debt? Then what? What happens when that doesn’t work? They’ll spend another 350 billion soon and I’m sure they’ll find a way to bring that up to a trillion without thinking too hard about it.
Come on, where is this money coming from?These guys are going to put the car companies out of business, they’re going to destroy the banking system. The government does not create anything but dependents.
My God please stop them, someone!

I don’t know why Boehner et al are stuck advocating strategies that have been tried and failed, failed, failed. I honestly can’t believe that Republicans really believe what they’re saying. It’s a very dangerous kind of posturing…and confirms that Obama probably was the only one with the vision to get us as far as we’re going to be able to go..

William. WAy to go. Agree 100%

obama needs to go right to the people if republican’s only want to protect there big businesses. we are going to change things.
the republicans are slowing things down and its going to anger there constituants if they know whats going on.

The Republicans are right to be cautious, all of Obamas plans will have to be paid for by taxpayer money. We need tax cuts not more taxes and that is where the funds will come from. Also, no more bailouts-there is no accountability and they keep giving money out and its being spent on bonuses for the CEO’s. With our economy in the dire straits it is in, how can the president even think of spending any money on resodding the Mall-try some grass seed and water, or put it to gravel. People are losing their jobs-they don’t need the Mall resodded!

I believe politics needs to back a back seat. Our country is hurting. Unfortunately, these well paid politicians don’t realize or feel the pain of the working public. Let them lose their jobs or lose their home, I like to know then their priorities. Let our president lead the country…….we are at rock bottom, at lease daggling over the bottom.

I THINK THIS IS THE WORST THING WE CAN DO. THE REPUBLICANS BETTER STAND STRONG. OBAMA WANTS TO GIVE ONE BILLION TO ACORN. AFTER WHAT THEY DID DURING THE ELECTION THEY SHOULD B DISOLVED. IF OBAMA HAS HIS WAY THIS COUNTRY IS GOING TO HELL IN A HAND BASKET. NOT BECAUSE HE IS BLACK, BUT BECAUSE OF HIS IMMORALITY,(FUNDING OF ABORTION, AND GAY MARRIAGES) AND LACK OF EXPIERENCE. I FEAR FOR OUR SAFETY. THANKS FOR THE OPP. TO SHARE WITH YOU.

I agree with the Republicans. They need to remember we the people sent them to stand up for us. I am happy they will stand up for what they belive in and I hope they do not back down. I do belive we need help but the country will have to wait another 4 years before we get it.

Republicans are simply belly-achers because they’re full of sour grapes. It’s opposition for the sake of opposition. If a Republican had come up with the plan, they’d back it 100% AND he’d be up for sainthood.

Republicans are right. Let’s hope Obama sees the light-no more spending.

Karen: “No, Martha, our economic disaster was perpetuated by Pelosi, Franks and Dodd.”
Of course, never mind the Republican control of Congress and the Presidency followed by their record number of filibusters the past two years to keep their policies in place. It’s Pelosi’s fault (at least Republicans are finally passing the buck to someone other than Bill Clinton).
Do the Republicans, in power for the last 8 years (6 of them with all three branches of government), ever take responsibility for ANYTHING?

The Republicans are correct in rejecting the Democrats plan to gain Republican support in a doomed, foolish plan. What the Democrats are really trying to do is create a class of voters who owe everthing they have to government handouts. For instance, BHO’s ACORN, under a different name , is going to be greatly enriched.

I feel we are being “rushed” again into giving away our money. There are too many giveaways in this mess. Too many projects that WILL NOT help stimulate the economy. Not enough going to the people and small business but to the ones who caused this disaster. Are we to trust Congress with our money again? I feel Congress should get the views and opinions of unbiased financial geniuses who know something about money–not just these power seeking congressmen who do not have enough knowledge of such critical matters. After all, they just want to spend and spend–no matter where the money lands and want to push this through so we have no time to protest. It’s just yet another way to screw the people.

Elizabeth: “If this were a corp it would have been shut down a long time ago.”
Right. The most powerful nation in the history of the world. An unprecedented standard of living. Near total literacy. Complete elimination of starvation. Unprecedented equality and opportunity.
Yet you see it as a total failure that should be shut down. Your ignorance of the accomplishments of this government, this country, as imperfect as it is, would disgust the Founding Fathers.

President Obama is right to listen to the Republicans as a matter of courtesy, but he doesn’t owe them any further consideration. Eight years of failed Republican policies is what brought us to this crisis. Republicans always say “no” until they get everything just their way, so listen to them so as not to create open warfare with them and move on with the plan. Don’t ask the people who created the crisis to fix it.

It is not partisan to stand up for what you think is right. I don’t think that throwing money (which we don’t have)at this will solve the problem. History has shown that tax cuts are the way to put people to work and get those who are working to spend more. I hope that the Republicans will have enough back bone to stand their ground.

Joyce: “Too many projects that WILL NOT help stimulate the economy.”
Name a few. As already pointed out, things like sodding the National Mall would actually serve as a pretty good stimulus – local labor, local materials (you don’t import sod from China), local business, even the heavy machinery is likely local (and Caterpillar is really hurting right now). A good way to maintain a park and keep a lot of Americans in work and through a bit of the recession. But does reality and those jobs matter if there are partisan points to be made by railing about ‘pork’ and willfully not thinking?

The Republicans need to get out of the way. The only thing that they can think of is to continue down the same path that they’ve been on for the last 8 years, the same thinking, or lack thereof, that has paved the way for our present disaster. It’s time for new ideas and bold action. In times of deep recession/depression, the gov’t needs to invest in something to create jobs and jump-start the economy. Why not invest in those things which we sorely need anyway and which have been neglected for decades, just as Obama has suggested? It’s time.

jhw539
Government jobs do not stimulate the economy. The government does not create a product to turn a profit….It takes profit away from the individual!

Put $20,000.00 in the hands of each household and let democracy work.It would be a lot cheaper and show results a lot sooner.I hope the repubicans don’t give in to the pressure!

Anyone please, tell me what exactly happened to the $350,000,000,000 this bipartisan congress has already borrowed and spent? Does President Obama or the Congress know? The clueless media?
Also, if we’re in “the worst economic crisis since the great depression” why was it necessary to spend $200,000,000 on an inauguration, during which our president and chief justice could not even get the “sacred oath” straight? $200,000,000 would have covered alot of unemployment checks!
Think of it, Obama is only the third president who had to repeat the oath. The other two were Coolidge and Arthur, not the sharpest knives in the presidental drawers. Bad omen?

Another thought, Obama needs two republican senators to pull out this package. All of the republicans need to stand up and fight. I only have a little bit of money left in my preferred stocks. I will take my money out and fight to put every repuplican out of office that votes yes on this package.

The republicans are only half right in rejecting Obama and the democrats’ plan to stimulate our economy. Not enough is being proposed or done to fix the root causes of the current economic mess. Those who do not learn from history are forced to repeat it. Both parties need to clean house of their own members who are central to all this mess. Congress (House and Senate) should start by putting themselves at economic risk before they saddle my (and Obama’s) children and grandchildren with insurmountable national debt. Their salary should be tied to the average American’s, (including the unemployed); they should not be able to vote themselves a raise. Their guaranteed retirements should be a thing of the past. If they are the guardians of Social Security and our budget and are supposed to be “of the people, by the people and for the people” they should stop putting themselves on pedestals. Economic recovery will come when confidence is rebuilt through a sound economy without the gimmicks and short cuts that got us here. Too many in Congress are more interested in ensuring their own re-election or lining their own pockets than in actually serving those whom they were elected to serve. All pork barrel spending must end. It is irresponsible to give money without ironclad accountability, without considering who will ultimately pay for it and without fixing the lending and credit laws, and securities and monetary fund oversights. Mr Obama does little to give me confidence when his choice for Treasury cannot get his own taxes right. I am no accountant but would be surprised if I had no taxes to pay! There is little confidence in the government fixing this mess as long as it is more of the same in Washington. Obama, change; only the names have changed!

Stop Nancy Pelosi’s Taxpayer Funded Payoff Scheme
January 27, 2009 | Refer a Friend
Dear Becky,
Exactly what kind of stimulus did Speaker Nancy Pelosi have in mind? That’s a question more Americans should be asking now that details are trickling in about the controversial $825 billion “economic recovery” package. $200 million for lawn care in Washington, D.C., $360 million to potentially be used to put on transsexual beauty pageants and erotic art shows. These are a few examples in the $825 BILLION (and counting!), over 1,588 page stimulus bill. Speaker Nancy Pelosi argues this bill would stimulate the economy, however only 7 percent of the legislation actually goes towards infrastructure – the rest of the bill reads like a taxpayer funded payoff to groups that have supported liberal Democrats’ interests.
And what a pay off! ACORN, the long controversial group that purposefully tried to muck up last year’s elections to benefit the Democrats is being rewarded by Nancy Pelosi with potentially $4.19 BILLION in taxpayer funds. And more than 10 percent of the proposal-$87 billion-would be directed to groups like Planned Parenthood! The country’s recession is crippling families, and the Democrats’ solution is spending billions of dollars on contraception?
On the latest “This Week” program on ABC, George Stephanopoulos pressed Speaker Pelosi for an explanation. She implied that making sure there are less children is a great way to stimulate the economy! Meanwhile she helped stop an amendment to the bill that would have protected parental rights!
Contact your Representative today to vote against H.R. 1, the so called “American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009″.

The Republicans are wise to avoid government spending. History has shown that government spending has only prolonged the effects of recession. Studies show that this was so even with Roosevelt’s “New Deal”. During Reagan’s tenure, we discovered that budget cuts in line with reduced government spending motivated/produced economic growth. We’ve not experienced such reduced gov’t spending since. Even Bush, although cut the budget, did not cut gov’t spending. Truth is, the economy cannot sustain a large amount of growth over a long period of time – recession was inevitable. If you look at the Dow since inception, you can see the large growth that took place before the crash. This large growth was primarily due to easy(loose) credit. The best and simplest thing to due is reduce gov’t spending and cut taxes – even a caveman could do it. Recent study was released which dealt with business in China. The study revealed that the main reason companies moved operations to China was primarily due to low taxes. Another study revealed that the poorest nations had the highest taxes and most social programs and the same was true for states in the US. If you need help locating these studies, let me know and I will try to locate them. I, like many, had hoped Obama would be more willing to listen to wisdom, but it appears he has already begun to fail us. I noticed his satisfaction polls have dropped more in the first week than any presidents that I can remember, but I haven’t given up on him yet.

Elizabeth: Interesting collection of talking points, but could you offer any REAL, FACTUAL examples? I don’t know of ANY home owner who has been bailed out – although I heard that one bank postponed foreclosures scheduled for December until after the holidays. Is that what you mean by bailed out? And where SPECIFICALLY do you want to see government cut? Eliminate every cent spent on NASA to save 0.58% (and gut a historically very productive innovation pump)?

Brent: “During Reagan’s tenure, we discovered that budget cuts in line with reduced government spending motivated/produced economic growth.”
Are you seriously referencing Reagan, the father of the multi-trillion dollar national debt era, while preaching for budget cuts and balanced budgets? REALITY EXISTS – look it up for goodness sake. The only administration that added more to the national debt was Bush II.
I know schools say to worry about self esteem and all that rot, but this level of irrationality and ignorance should be embarrassing.

Checked yesterday, checked today-Obama is still an idiot.

The beginning of this economic collapse started during Reagan’s tenure, when the “Depository Institution Deregulation & Monetary Control Act of 1980″ was passed. This lead, in the late ’80′s, to the S & L collapse and then the first stock market crash since 1929. The biggest coup de grace came in 1999 when Phil Gramm and McCain pushed for Gramm’s bill the “Financial Services Modernization Act of 1999″ which removed parts of the “Glass-Steagall Act of 1933″ which had been put in place to control speculation. (“Modernization” of protective legislation as though human nature and the propensity for greed had somehow changed since 1933.) This allowed banks to get involved in all kinds of areas which they had been denied previously, leading to a kind of bankers 10 Card Monte, giving us the present mortgage crisis. Not finished screwing the public (us “whiners”) and providing windfalls for his cronies, in 2000, Phil Gramm also sneaked in his bill, the “Commodity Futures Modernization Act”, into an 11,000 page appropriations bill. Warren Buffett called this bill “financial WMD”. Even Alan Greenspan admitted during his testimony before the Senate hearings on 10/23/08, that he had pushed for deregulation of the finance industry because didn’t think that banks would have become so greedy after deregulation.
China is a popular place for manufacturers to set-up shop because of the really low wages and lack of regulation. Now that Bush has put us into trillions of debt to China for his unnecessary war, we are awash in toxic and shoddy goods from China.

Cut Taxes, Not Children
When President Obama said the stimulus bill would improve “infrastructure,” he neglected to mention that all roads lead to Planned Parenthood. In what is proving to be a wildly unpopular move, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.) and House Appropriations Committee Chairman David Obey (D-Wis.) injected their radical ideas about population control into the ballooning economic recovery plan. Their plan called for the bulk of an $87 billion state Medicaid expansion to be used help people, especially young teens, get their hands on more birth control. According to CNS News, the White House is denying that the “family planning” push was Obama’s idea. In fact, there was such outcry by groups like FRC that the President backed away from his personal support for these programs and called on his party to drop the provision. Late news reports have indicated that Congressional Democrats will bow to his request. If true, it’s a resounding victory for our movement.
However, the debate does underscore just how much influence Rep. Obey holds over the appropriations process. In today’s New York Times, the twenty-term congressman is featured as the architect of this stimulus plan. As a gatekeeper of our tax dollars, he must hear from you that funding “family planning” programs that promote abortion is not an acceptable use of your money. It’s not too late to sign onto our petition at http://www.frc.org. Join the 45,000 who have told Obey to keep Americans out of the abortion business.
In the meantime, the battle over birth control doesn’t end with the stimulus bill. If Pelosi doesn’t get her way with the recovery package, her Senate colleagues have a backup plan called the Prevention First Act (H.R. 819), which would infuse millions of dollars into the same contraception campaign. Unlike the stimulus bill, this legislation would go further in using taxpayer funds to push Plan B and also mandate abortion referrals. Make no mistake. The Left will use absolutely any opportunity to push its radical social platform–even if it means cloaking their agenda as “stimulus.”

History Buff: “Stop making more debt. The tax cut now makes the best sense. … We can thank the Democrats for the housing mess thanks to Bill Clinton, as I understand it. We can also thank the Democrates for the raping of Social Security funds for other ‘projects’.”
Stop making more debt… by implementing the tax cut that will increase the debt (just like Reagan’s and Bush’s did)? By what new math does that make sense?
And now the housing mess is… Clinton’s fault? Wow. Just, wow. And the Democrats, who put forth Mr Al “put Social Security in a lockbox” Gore for president in 2000 are responsible for the looting of social security?
Thanks for a good chuckle before I head off to bed.

I’m against all of this and the previous TARP bailout. We should’ve let the market work…painful as it would and still will be. How could they not know and track where the money was going to go?!
The Republicans ought to show up and just not vote on it. If this is so good let Barack, Nancy, Harry, Barney and Chris and all of the other Dems take all of the credit if it works. They can also take all of the blame if it doesn’t.
We do have history and basic economic principles to go by and nobody has ever spent their way out of a recession.
If we must do it spend 1/2 on the Dem plans (bigger gov’t and subsidies) and let the other half go to Republican plans (tax cuts for all who actually pay taxes, lower captial gains, make the Bush tax cuts permanent and cut the corp rate of 35% in half and fix the AMT) and track the results. The tax cut side has proven time and again to speed us out of previous recessions and build jobs the fastest. How can anyone ignore the CBO and their report. The Dem plan isn’t going to do what they say it will because the bulf of the money isn’t really going to get spent until 2010 and 2011!
My/our children and grandchildren will have no future and no freedom because of all of the gov’t spending which is really borrowing. There is no free lunch!

HOORAY FOR JANE!!! Could not agree with you more, Jane! President Obama clearly got the support of the electorate to appoint an administrative team, committed to the interests of the GREATER American public, as they — i.e.,the Obama team — determine those interests to be. It may be impossible to gain the support of a party that clearly, is so thoroughly partisan and married to a failed ideology.

As I recall, allowing people to buy a house who had no way of repaying the loan and other social engineering schemes is what caused most of our problems. We have Frank and Dodd and others to thank for that. And didn’t Clinton with the aid of some Republican relax the banking rules? Are we going to follow the Pied Piper and go over the cliff? It makes more sense to me to let the people keep more of their money. It will find its way into the stores, car dealers and banks. And the sales tax generated will help the states.

NO MORE DEBT.
Obama is WRONG. The best way for government to fix the mess we are in is to let the American People do what they do best i.e. Innovate, Create grow the economy. Plans like Obama’s have been tried in the past. They have NEVER worked. No country ours included has ever been able to spend itself into long term prosperity. 7 years of New Deal did nothing for the economy except prolong it. It took WWII to get us out of that one.
Tax cuts have worked better than increased spending but actual tax cuts are pretty much out of the question right now. Lets try some real change and give the American People a chance to fix our own problems.
You big time spenders in Washington are not smarter than us. You get us into this mess.

Thank God! Thank God! Thank God! for the Republicans who have had the courage to stand AGAINST this porkulus bill – for it is what it is – a trillion dollar bill of pork that will be placed on the backs of our children, grand children and on, and on. Government interfering in our Free Market system will cripple our economy every time, and cause great financial burdens for those yet to be born. Does anyone understand what a One Trillion dollar debt means? Does anyone realize that it would take close to 2,800 years of spending 1 million dollars a day to pay back 1 Trillion dollars. If we spent 1 million dollars a day since the day Jesus was born 2,008 years ago, we would still have over 700 years of 1 million dollars PER DAY to repay the debt? This is NOT Republicans playing POLITICS!!! Thank God we have the
Republicans to do all that they can to protect we the people from this outrageous ploy by the Democrats to turn this great nation into a Socialist Democracy like France/Germany/Great Britain. Obama does not need ANY republicans to pass this Porkulus Bill. They need to stand firm against it, and let the Democrats carry the full responsibility and accountability for the consequences! It is also a REAL SHAME that our mainstream media truly did DIE in 2008. The blatant bias, outright lies and misleading reports are a disgrace! You will carry a great deal of responsibility for all of this along side the Democrat Party!
Has anyone considered Rush Limbauh’s BIPARTISAN suggestion for the 850 Billion dollar spending bill? Let the Democrats spend 54% of the 850 Billion dollars their way for the people that voted for Obama, and let the Republicans use the remaining 46% in providing the tax cuts they know would really begin to turn this economy around. This would be TRULY BIPARTISAN, and then we could track which actions provided in the bill affect the economy and how. With a bill such as this we would know once and for all what REALLY works – the Free Market OR Big Government!

C’mon ya’ll!!! use your freaking heads for more than an ornament. FOR ONCE!!! LISTEN CLOSELY…you want to play the blame game?? try the Fed, the Fed chair and all the bankers of the world who have drugged all of us and brought this to all our doorsteps.
Dems and Repubs are in their back pockets. play all your political games and Whodunits all you want but this will continue to spiral out of control until all the bankers are exposed for their deeds!!! money rules, right? follow the money. that is always the trail to take for TRUTH!!!!!!

The Republicans always signed off on Bush’s deals, and spent billions and billions over the last 8 years for whatever he wanted, until the Democrats took over. Now that the Democrats are in the majority, they call foul, and they want to say the Democrats are fiscally irresponsible, when in reality, the Democrats have been more conservative on spending than the Republicans have for many, many years. The Democrats are trying to right the wrongs that the Republicans have done to this country, and other countries, and the Republicans are afraid that what they propose will work, and make them look even worse than they already do. If the Republicans were really concerned about the people, and this crisis, they would not have got us into this in the first place! It is good for them to have to eat crow for a change, since they bullied us for long, and all they have to show for it, is the biggest deficit, the worst economy, and the worst war that was waged, for no good reason, they only war that should have been waged was against the Terrorist and Osama Bin Ladin in Afghanistan.

Tax credit for those who don’t pay taxes is ridiculous socialistic carp… first off that does not promote anyone to work any harder, its just plain stupid economics.

The Republicans have lost 2 consecutive congressional elections. There is now a Democrat in the White House. It’s time for Republicans to listen to American voters. Your tax cuts haven’t worked. Give it up. Sit down and let the Democrats fix what you have broken.

Right on, Jim Rogers!!! I 100% agree! For all of you who like to argue party affiliations and blame the other party – the main difference between Republicans and Democrats is: Republicans believe in letting the private sector solve and/or fix the social and economic problems of our nation. The Democrats believe in having the government solve those problems. NO WAY should the government be responsible or allowed to fix these problems. It only puts us further into debt and who pays for it? US! Many of us struggle enough as it is – even before the recession – why should we also have to help pay off these bailout programs we don’t even want or agree with, and which won’t work anyway? Not only will they not work, i.e. have the result you all are expecting, but they will make our economy and nation’s stability horrifically BAD !!! Republicans in Congress – please do not pass this most recent bailout or any ones in the future. Thank you for allowing me to share my thoughts.

“Republicans are correct to resist. Remember – Republicans deal in fact, Democrats deal in fantasy.
Root cause of current economic crisis is the Community Redevelopment Act signed into law during the Carter administration.”
Now, who’s dealing in fantasy (and racism)…. some 30 year old bill that gave some black people a chance to buy a house suddenly, of nowhere, is the root cause of all our problems. You’re the one that needs to get out into the real world!

“Never let a serious crisis go to waste. What I mean by that is it’s an opportunity to do things you couldn’t do before.”
So said White House Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel in November, and Democrats in Congress are certainly taking his advice to heart. The 647-page, $825 billion House legislation is being sold as an economic “stimulus,” but now that Democrats have finally released the details we understand Rahm’s point much better. This is a political wonder that manages to spend money on just about every pent-up Democratic proposal of the last 40 years.
[Review & Outlook] AP
We’ve looked it over, and even we can’t quite believe it. There’s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There’s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.

This is supposed to be a new era of bipartisanship, but this bill was written based on the wish list of every living — or dead — Democratic interest group. As Speaker Nancy Pelosi put it, “We won the election. We wrote the bill.” So they did. Republicans should let them take all of the credit.

Anyone and everyone should question the contents of this massive spending bill. To do so indicates good citizenship and not partisanship.
The real question is why don’t the ABC supposed news reporters raise questions about the funding for ACORN and other social engineering components that are in the bill.
This is a classic Trojan Horse set up and the news media are contributing to its success. You should point out that the real “partisans” are those who slip millions of dollars into the bill as a payoff (to ACORN) and to further their own agendas (again, with ACORN). I am focusing on ACORN because funding it with my tax dollars is an example of egregious partisanship that will not stimulate our economy.

The Republican mantra is what got us into this pickle during these last 8 years. Paul Krugman (award winning economist & author) said that for every infrastructure dollar spend we receive back $1.56, and for every tax reduction dollar we receive back only $0.50. So we should not hold still for Republican backward thinking, but rather look forward to CHANGE, which is what the election was all about.

while I agree that money shouldnt be thrown at any problem and expected to fix it, I do believe that money spent judiciously and strategically is needed to get our nation back to work. The people doing this work will be paying taxes back into the system. if the government doesnt provide the jobs thru reasonable and cost-effective programs, who will? Should we give more tax breaks to the rich CEOs that make as much in ONE DAY as the average worker makes in a YEAR??

I know Obama is proposing to use a lot of money and it may not even be enough. But the current crisis is compared to the economic difficulties of the 1930s. The only reason we don’t have food lines and more homeless is because of a lot of government programs put in place since those bleak times (BTW, the food banks are empty in NYC). Obama said the right thing when he said the question shouldn’t be whether the government is too big or too small, but whether or works. I’ll tell you tax cuts are not going to stimulate anything-we’ve had significant cuts when Bush was in power. Jobs through public work will put money in people’s pockets and fast. Investing in Education and Technology will have a multiplier effect. Please take my tax cut and use it to hire someone, preferably a volunteer who gives a damn about making this country a better place.

The stimulus bill is much too large and the pork needs to be cut. The money doesn’t get into the economy fast enough to accomplish a stimulus.

The Republican are absolutely right for trying to inject sanity into government. The Kensian economics theroy that you can improve the economy by public spending was disproved decades ago but the idea is still promoted by those whose adgenda is huge goverment. Each dollar spent by government to promote jobs is offset 100% by decreased economic activity due to less private spending due to taxes, to borrowing to finance the provate debt or by inflation if they just print more money. What this wild bailout mentality is really doing is vastly expanding the debt to the point that the govenments revenues after taxes will not allow it to pay social security without either cutting benifits or printing more money. If they print money rather tan cut benifits, and I predict they will, that will disrupt the distort economic conditions further and lead to additioal suffering. The best thing to do is help those affected by the economic down-turn and let this crisis run its course. Long run thst is far better than saddling every taxpayer with an additional $6700 of debt to pay interst on before the government can spend a dime on anythig else. If we keep going down this road we will not even be able to afford to defend this country.

Tax Cuts For The Rich Is What Got Us In This Mess To Start.
If They Were So Smart Why Are We Now
In such A Mess After 8 Years .