Comments on: Bipartisanship on the Stimulus: Clean Power and… Um…

By: Jo

Jo — Fri, 20 Feb 2009 22:14:32 +0000

As always, what they say is not what they do!! They sing an dance pretty to get the voters to vote for them an then reality HITS!! When Obama was wanting everyone to come to his way of thinking to get a vote, everyone thought he was the greatest. Now he visits Canada and he bends like sough dough bread. Now many of the people who voted for him are going deaper than ever in this resession. That group is getting larger and larger. I am with every one on how to spend this stimulus money. The companies will still lay people off and pad the pockets of their CEOs. If they need to save money then they should fire all of the chiefs and save the Indians!!! Base line that I am trying to say is the stimulus of this economy needs to start with the top being cleaned and maybe there will be our economy will revive. ‘Cause too many cheifs spoil anything they touch. It is the same old poitics – you do not see them laying off any of the Congress men or women to save money. Some of them owe more taxes than my house is worth!!! That should be grounds of termination. We need to hold them to the ramification of their choice. We teach our children that there are remifications to the choices we make and if you make a bad decision you need to deal with the good or bad outcome of that decisions. All people need to indeedly be treated the SAME. If you want to really do something GOOD you should start with your own back yard. Get the trash out of our Congress and maybe the grass will grow in the cleaned out space. I could go on and on as I have seen many fasets in this total government system.

By: Sherry Ramos

Sherry Ramos — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 13:19:09 +0000

Instead of giving billions to companies that have already proven they are incompetent… divide that money up amoung the taxpayers and see how much that would stimulate the economy. With a million dollars, we could pay off our mortgage, buy new cars, new furniture, send our kids to school; isn’t THAT stimulating?

By: David

David — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 23:48:11 +0000

Its amazing how no one has mentioned the pink elephant in the dining room of the economy; the gas price escalation of 2008 and the domino effect it had on the remaining economic indicators. The media and the government must have gotten one hellava kickback for keeping mum.

By: robert l welker

robert l welker — Tue, 10 Feb 2009 02:46:24 +0000

the goverment wants world economy. the working people didn’t ask for it. now the blue collar jobs are all over seas. duh! i wonder why we are broke

By: Linda

Linda — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 18:28:49 +0000

the stimulte bill just pay political special interest groups.it is useless for economy.

By: Peter

Peter — Sun, 08 Feb 2009 23:49:43 +0000

Ayesha is dead on. Enough politics! This bill (if there really has to be one) should be about putting money into the hands of people who can stimulte the economy…not paying off political special interest groups. By the way, on ABC news tonight Krugman already started the “we’re not spending enough” mantra. I believe this is the same excuse that was used to explain away the failure of the “Great Society” 40 years ago. Sadly, there are too many influential people in this country who won’t be satisfied if there is one penny in your pocket that didn’t go through Washington first.

By: Ayesha

Ayesha — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 15:06:10 +0000

Is spending our way out of a deficit the same as digging your way out of a hole?
I would think the best way to get out of a hole Is to fill it back in. Fill in a bit step up, scrape the edges some more fill in more and step up till you reach the top. Or should we dig till we reach china?
I don’t think the politicians have a grip on reality right now and I can say that as a Black woman from the hood I think all of them on the left and right should be fired – except maybe, just maybe the 11 Democrats that voted against the Bail out this time around and the Original few who voted against it when Bush first proposed it. They might actually still have some sense
Politicians are playing games when all we want is for them to save America not Pass the Pork and try and tell us it is a good thing.
And I keep thinking don’t the Democrats want to be right, don’t they want to pass something that will work and not just a massive spending increase, they have a chance here to make the republicans eat crow and all they seem to be doing is paying back friends and funding pet projects and not doing anything to fix the underlined problem that started this mess, Fannie and Freddie and the Housing/credit crunch. If they stick with that this bill would not only be cut in less than half but Politically in the eye of the public it would be a huge win. But instead it is all about playing a game instead of saving America or so it seems to the general public.

By: Diana S

Diana S — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 05:19:16 +0000

Didn’t former President Bush have a stimulus package? I remember getting a few bucks from the gov’t. Didn’t the Republicans go for it then?
I am not sure I understand why education is such a big part of President Obama’s stimulus package. I feel education is important but I feel gaining energy independence at this point in time would be more beneficial.

By: christine m

christine m — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:49:49 +0000

clean air, i m getting tire of this, i grew up in the 60′s, and 70′s, did anyone one worry about then? If the President wants us to have clean air, and these new cars for clean air, well he can by everyone one, hows that. I think the prisident is forgetting the middle class people again.
thats not worry about the clean air act, thats get the presendent to drop gas and fuel prices and get the those people that got lay off from work, back to work.

By: Lee P.

Lee P. — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 18:38:01 +0000

To the greedy, shameful (in Obama’s words)who accepted billions in bonuses, from us, the taxpayer. Why can’t we retain the rest of the stimulus payout until these bonuses are returned? We are all in this mess together.