Obama Has Votes Now to Pass Stimulus Plan

I’d almost forgotten what it was like to have an intelligent, capable leader as president. What a relief.

The Republicans should run away from this. It will not bring a stronger economy and will in fact have the reverse affect because it will increase our debt by nearly a Trillion dollars. Our long term debt is the primary reason for the great uncertainty that exist about our economy.
Let the Democrats pass it on their own so they will receive all the blame when it fails. The Republicans should submit a competing proposal that cuts government to offset the costs of their plan and provide incentives for business and research.

Good grief, a package this large needs to have some careful thought and examination. God help us all if this is passed immediately, without either.

Please!, you are right. We are going to try to spend our way out of a problem that was caused by spending too much money. In the last year the fed has pumped nearly 7 Trillion dollars into our economy. Has this improved anything? Now, Obama comes along and concludes that spending a few more trillion will do the trick. He simply is out of his league and has no understanding of what the economy is broadcasting very clearly; we have too much debt. We are on the verge of bankruptcy and just like a private citizen with credit card debt, we cannot fix this by borrowing even more money.
Obama will be as hated as George Bush if he continues this approach.

James: You remind me of my good friend Herbert Hoover.

I noticed last Friday that George said that the market was going up because people were excited about Barak Obama. Now that it has fallen again I haven’t heard him say that it is because they are depressed about Barak Obama.

The whole point is to generate JOBS to keep FOOD on most Americans tables and a roof over our heads. Plus our highways, bridges and schools are a mess and are in need of desperate overhaul. So we kill to birds with one stone. It is more than Bush or any other Repug has done for us this past 8 years.

It took 8 years for this President Bushie to take a surplus and put us in this enormous debt.. and i just hope the GOP doesn’t think that Obama can solve everything in one day..
Americans know it will take time.. but they are willing to give him time as evidence by his 70% plus approval rating.

David,
Your GOP hero, President Bush is the one who has put us in this debt. Not Obama. It is your president.. who increased the size of government.. Not Clinton or Obama.
GOP likes to claim smaller govt.. is good.. but it was your President.. who showed no fiscal responsibility.. i trust a Democratic president to be more fiscally responsible..
We will have to go in a little more debt.. to stimulate the economy.. or we will have double digit employment.. if we dont do anything. But hey… “On your own party” the GOp has turned into doesnt realize this..

It is your president.. who increased the size of government.. Not Clinton or Obama.–O!
“Your President”, huh? So you don’t mind the 56,000,000 people do not consider BHO as OUR President?

It’s amazing how the democratic congress of Nancy and Harry WROTE THE LAW that handed 750 billion or 8 TRILLION over to the wall street fannie and freddie HACKS and then told us they have NO IDEA what it is spent on.
I guess DEMOCRATS will someday have to come to the realization that their party, the rulers of DC as the congressional majority that can override any potus veto at the drop of a hat, handed TRILLIONS to their “hated corporate ceo’s” who have been flying them around on the JETS they whined about coming to DC (for their public deception and liefest points).
Dems, you are the dimmest useful idiot dummies the world has ever seen.
I suppose the USA will crash and burn until the insane led by the nose drooling braindead populace picks up the Constitution and realizes the CONGRESS spends their tax dollars, writes the laws on EXACTLY HOW IT WILL BE SPENT, and the rest of the government merely implements that legal demand and law the CONGRESS wrote up and passed.
Stupid Americans, as you all wail toward the white house, capitol hill is pumping your backside full of hot lead and you haven’t clue one.
Congratulations, you are truly idiots.

Republicans need to never, never, never, touch for this, let the demobrats have it. Then they can take the fall like the republicans do everytime they are pushed to going along with the demobrats, because this one like all the others is going to fail misserably and at OUR (WORKING CLASS) EXPENSE ! Things keep going like they are and I say we should all stay home and let Obaba take care of us. I’m tire of working and paying taxes to bail out all these morons, especially when I hear where they live, what they drive, and all their retreats they go to. It’s time for all the bid wigs to not be living so high on the hog and join us regular folks !!!!!

If you are going to put down welfare people at least spell it right your freaking ingrate loser. dumb ajax very dumb.

Apparently, no one remembers that all the spending on FDR’s New Deal did not end the depression. The economy was in the same, or worse shape after years of the New Deal.
World War II ended the depression. The New Deal only left us a lot more government and a lot of public debt.
Evidently our so-called leaders expect to do exactly the same thing and get different results. I so no reason for history not to repeat itself with this stupendous boondoggle of a “stimulus packeage.”

@FreshMeatz,
If you were from my part of the Country, you would know what WellFair meant. NOTICE the way I spelled it! I did it on purpose.
Evidently what I said must have touched a nerve. Are you one??? Are you living off the rest of our backs??? Don’t want to work, but think you should get money from the rest of us that do??
Are you one of those that think this:
“Well”, I think it is just “Fair” that the Government should look after me.

your socialized rhetoric will give you no brownie points here.

Dear O or is it zero?, Yes Bush did spend money with medicare for the aged and on education but lets rememeber he also spent oodles on homeland security which if I am not mistaken added thousands upon thousands to the Govermnet payrolls. So we had all this spending, government spending, and the economy, in part from the reckless lending from 2 goverment guaranteed lenders, effectively torched the economy. We can spend money on bridges and roads and other government projects get a measley small return from each dollar and once these things are built we can let those who built them go back on forth on them because they will be among a few getting paid. We the consumers and producers drive business and employment and as far as I know Governemt does not create wealth but, as a necessary evil, consumes it.

I love him sooo much..
You know the reason i said “your president”.. cuz that is exactly what he was.. he never cared about the people who never voted for him.. he and his GOP senators would hammer their agenda through bare majorities. as long as they had 50+1 votes in the senate.. is what he cared about..
ANd believe me.. if you actually give him a chance.. and not have a closed mind.. hw will be everyones presidents..
This stimulus plan will get atleast 60 votes.. if not more.. because this is a nneed for our country.
David.. thankyou for admitting.. Bush was the one who increased spending.. and for the person who said Reid and Pelosi asked for the 800 billion dollar bailout.. umm check the facts.. it was Bush’s whitehouse who increased spending trying to makeup for his 8 years of zero regulation on these companies…
Obama is forced to clean the mess Bush has created.. there are no good solutions.. just bad or worse..

MzFW – OK, let’s first address the myth that the New Deal “delayed economic recovery”. Back in 1995 a survey of economic historians asked whether “government policies of the New Deal served to lengthen and deepen the Great Depression.” In economics departments, 27% agreed, 22% agreed ‘with provisos’ (unknown what these were) and 51% disagreed. In history departments, only 27% agreed and 73% disagreed. So enough blathering about how The New Deal “ONLY left us a lot more government and a lot of public debt.”

Hoover was so busy trying not to throw to much money at the economy, until it failed miserably.
It took FDR to come in any do it right.
We had 8yrs of Bush not paying attention to what was going on in this country, now we need another humongous amount of money thrown at the economy to right the problem.
Thank goodness for PR BHO!!
I can just imagine what McCain would have done for the economy…continue to deregulate while not throwing enough money after the problem.
We’d be just another 3rd world country by now.

The stimulus package is great for the working middle class but it’s not so great for the elderly and the disabled on social security and the low income minimum wage workers. They are left out of any stimulus tax rebate because most of them don’t have enough income to have to pay any income tax after their deductions. The stimulus package might help some of the low income minimum wage workers to find better jobs but the package, as it stands, will do nothing to help the elderly and the disabled. The stimulus package needs to be rewitten to include ALL Americans with incomes less than $200,000!

Barack Obama, are your supposed “tax cuts”
actually raiding Social Security?

President Elect Obama will add to that deficit blindly. Congress is blinded to reality; they are not protecting us. Barack Obama is a lover of Harry Potter (witchcraft – sorcery) books. There is no godly guidance to those who love witchcraft. There seems to be a connection here and I do not expect this presidency to stand. He is spending too much money to avoid showing his full birth certificate. If he is born in Kenya as a relative and an ambassador have reportedly said, Barack Obama in not eligible to be presedent. Other cracks in the promise are showing up. “The devil is a liar and the father of lies.” He will make big promises, but when people of God stand against him, he cannot deliver his promises.
The massive bailout began in the one half billion dollar range and now could go to 1 trillion dollars. God is against debt. He promised a change in Washington; now he is trying to guarantee government jobs and is increasing government positions. Barack Obama is not in control; nothing has changed. Groups of unions, etc. are marching, pushing the economic stimulus plan. There is no text, no details to the stimulus package, just a dollar amount. The Democrats are trying to push it through quickly and enslave us further, even without adequate review.
What is Obama supporting and does he even know? The House is ready to fast track that plan. That fits in with Harry Potter’s new movie, “Half-Blood Prince” where there is a spell or potion that makes people blindly infatuated. Was that one of the four Harry Potter (witchcraft-sorcery) books Senator Obama read to his young daughters? There certainly seems to be a spell out there; things do not make sense.
God rejected King Saul from being king for going against His ways and going after witchcraft; we will see how this works out. (The spell does get broken.)
Science and technology used since the great depression to solve that financial crisis have created a nation and world that is dangerous, stressful and expensive. It has caused world problems of pollution, global warming, energy crisis, reoccurring financial crises, war, immigration, disease and the high cost of health care (soon to add health insurance costs for millions that cannot afford it), poverty, inequality, crime, child and elder care needs, and social security inadequacies, etc.
We are ready for real change; and the way is prepared. The goal in life is not employment; the goal is a retirement lifestyle, a garden paradise we create with fresh food around us and true freedom and independence. That solves the world problems we created by ignoring God’s wisdom, pollution, global warming, energy crisis, disease, war, immigration, poverty, inequality, crime and social security inadequacies. It is easy, fair, beautiful, sustainable through the ages and inexpensive. The way is prepared, even with a better financial system; it doesn’t run out of money or put us in debt.

We are still going the wrong way. Science and technology used since the great depression to solve that financial crisis have created a nation and world that is dangerous, stressful and expensive. It has caused world problems of pollution, global warming, energy crisis, reoccurring financial crises, war, immigration, disease and the high cost of health care (soon to add health insurance costs for millions that cannot afford it), poverty, inequality, crime, child and elder care needs, and social security inadequacies, etc.
We are ready for real change; and the way is prepared. The goal in life is not employment; the goal is a retirement lifestyle, a garden paradise we create with fresh food around us and true freedom and independence. That solves the world problems we created by ignoring God’s wisdom.

Hey George, Why dont you ask the question of Obama,
Why has Obama (Mr Transparency) sealed his vault birth certificate,College admissions records, and Pakistani passport?
What kind of journalist are you George? A bought and paid for one, evidently.
Hey George,,Your messiah is a liah.

I have a suggestion. Why not remove the “comments” section from news articles. They don’t offer new information, they’re depressing and they’re often written by people who don’t have a clue about the subject under discussion.
Just news, Please.

It’s amazing how much the media has pumped up this guy for doing absolutely nothing and has succeeded to Bash the pres. of the United States for the past 8 years. I am ashamed to be a part of such a party. After all the mess we are in is directly linked to the Clinton Administration, Barney Frank, and Christopher Dodd…I’m surprised Obama didnt ask one of them to join his administration! What changes is he talking about???? It’s the same ol BS!

hopesprings52: “I’d almost forgotten what it was like to have an intelligent, capable leader as president. What a relief.”
How is that koolaid tasting?