Jan 6, 2009 6:58pm
Obama Adamant Economic Stimulus Package Signed By President’s Day
EmailA lot of work went on behind the scenes in Washington today on President-elect Barack Obama’s economic stimulus package.
I’ve been told to expect the bill to be introduced in Congress probably on Monday.
Hearings and markups for the bill are expected in the House and the Senate as early as next week.
Votes are expected to begin in the House shortly after Obama is inaugurated on Jan. 20th.
Obama is signaling a lot of flexibility in these meetings he’s having with congressional leaders about the details of the bill.
But the one thing he’s adamant about is timing. The president-elect wants this bill on his desk for signature by President’s Day on Feb. 16.
–George Stephanopoulos
Sen. DeMint: GOP Race Could Go Until Convention 
Obama Avoids Questions on Contraception Rule
Why can’t we get countries to payback the gazillions that we have given them?
Why is it that we take care of people who hate us and not our OWN American CITIZENS – our own country?
These are things that the government did without our approval – we only get a choice of elected officials but never get to voice our opinion and they make dumba$$ decisions!
$15 BILLION dollars to bail out the banks – you could give each American CITIZEN a couple of million so that we could afford to make purchases to keep things afloat!
Rebuild devastated areas from floods, hurricanes and tornados. Money for NATURAL disasters, not man made ones.
No one is saving American CITIZENS and we are not being asked via a vote as to what we would like or not like to be done, so money is being given away like Monopoly money.
Posted by: Sue | January 6, 2009, 7:33 pm 7:33 pm
I am not joyous over this announcement. I am more concerned than before. I thought he was enough of a thinker and practical person to see the end from the beginning. But bit by bit it’s looking more like political expediency is his M.O.
Posted by: NPage | January 6, 2009, 8:27 pm 8:27 pm
If you want to help the auto industry,
instead giving them money, give the money back back to the people in the form of a income tax deduction.
I think if you give a 10,000 dollar
tax deduction for buying an American
made car or truck in febuary,and a 9,000
dollar tax deduction in March,and so forth untill it runs out.
I think by selling cars is the best way
to help the auto industry,and it might
stimulate the economy a little.
Posted by: Robert Belford | January 6, 2009, 8:35 pm 8:35 pm
Congress should tell ‘Bama: “You’re not the boss o’ me; you’ll get the bill whenever we’re damn good and ready.”
Posted by: MadeInUSA | January 6, 2009, 8:36 pm 8:36 pm
Every one get 1,000 dollars…. BIG DEAL…. It wont save one financially troubled family!!!!
Posted by: ynot | January 6, 2009, 8:57 pm 8:57 pm
Here’s the deal. The Imperial Federal Government of the United States collects about $167 billion a month in income and withholding taxes. The Congress has already passed a $700 billion stimulus bill, and about a half of that is gone, leaving $350 billion of your money in the pot. Some have suggested that this $350 billion be left as some sort of a bailout/stimulus slush fund for the incoming Obama Administration. In other words … let the politicians figure out how to spend it. Gohmert thinks it might be a better idea to allow the people who actually earned this $350 billion to spend it as they see fit. OK, if you have any appreciation at all for the concept of economic freedom that sounds like a good idea; but how do you make it work in this instance.
Posted by: RMBarley | January 6, 2009, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
The Perfect Stimulus Package-The government simply absorbs the remaining $350 billion from the stimulus bill and suspends the collection of all income and payroll taxes for two months. Even trade. This means that for two months you get your entire paycheck (well … less any State withholding). The government ends up with the same amount of money in its coffers, and the income earners in this country have some extra money to spend – an average about $2,000 per taxpayer – over the following two months. This plan puts the economic stimulus money right into the hands of the people who actually earned it in the first place. Can you imagine that? by: Neal Boortz Let’s start writing our congressman and senators now! Could something like this actually make its way through our Congress? Sure it could … if the voters demanded it. But hey …let’s get serious.
Posted by: RMBarley | January 6, 2009, 9:03 pm 9:03 pm
Obama’s tax credit of $5oo for singles and $1000 for couples is an insult to the American people.Congress just voted themselves a $5000.00 a year RAISE. The people should at least get the same amount.After all, the taxpayers pay the bills.
Posted by: CW | January 6, 2009, 9:15 pm 9:15 pm
RM Barley, your idea sounds perfect! Is there a website to email our congressmen to do this? No taxes during February & March would be SWEET! This other thing, $80 a month tax cut, that’s not gonna help he economy AT ALL! That’s just chump change.
Posted by: Janklo | January 6, 2009, 9:17 pm 9:17 pm
The bill should be on his desk whenever the bill is ready. Not on President’s day. Just because it might make him look presidential. This is NOT about Obama it is about the people.
Posted by: CW | January 6, 2009, 9:35 pm 9:35 pm
IDEA FOR THE ECONOMIC SOLUTION
New idea to create demand in residential real estate and solve the economic crises
1) Have a monthly lottery, where any home bought gets that buyer’s name entered.
2) On the 20Th of the following month on national television draw names per state based on the number of U.S. representatives that state has. The first name drawn in each state gets their purchase price paid back and 1 million dollars. The other names drawn will each get 100k
3) This should be retroactive to the first day that it is announced nationally so that those intending to buy property do not hold off until it begins.
4) Some TARP funds could be used for this and it can begin tomorrow.
5) This would mean that there would be 435 winners per month. Times 12 months equals 5220 winners per year. If 7 million homes are sold a year this gives you a 1/1340 chance of winning. This will help motivate people to buy houses, prices will stabilize and the economy will recover.
6) This is cheaper and wiser then throwing $ at the banks and it has a better chance of achieving results. Giving Banks money does not encourage them to lend. How can anyone blame them? Who would lend someone money against an asset that is falling in value? WE MUST STABILIZE HOME PRICES OR THIS ECONOMY WILL NOT RECOVER.
7) Putting the drawing on TV will give this idea incredible exposure. Companies will eagerly want to sponsor it and also throw in free prizes such as free cars, cruises, airline tickets, vacation packages etc. They have just as much to gain as consumers. This can actually become a national phenomenon and be a great deal of fun for the country.
Try to get Hollywood and Sports athletes involved in some fashion.
8) Also, there should be a zero % capital gains tax on any property purchased during the next year no matter when you sell it. This should only be on new purchases to help absorb some of the high housing inventory. Investors will snap up some properties and make things happen. This is a win win situation because no homes are selling anyway so there is no capital gains tax lost.
9) The situation is not really as complicated as people like Henry Paulson try to make it sound. In fact it is not Harvard economics it is simple 5th grade economics of supply and demand. We could eliminate supply by tearing down the excess inventory or we can stimulate demand with the ideas above, some variation of them or entirely new ones. Or we can wait until it happens on its own causing mass unemployment and foreclosures in the process.
ACTUAL COST OF PRIZE MONEY =1.062 BILLION (may be less with corporate sponsors)
ACTUAL POTENTIAL BENEFIT TO THE U.S. ……..PRICELESS.
We have nothing to lose. The money invested will stay in the economy and we are sure to gain back at least what was invested.
We need to get people involved, Television, Hollywood, Sports athletes. World War II was won by getting people involved, volunteerism, purchasing of war bonds etc. That is why we won.
Obama won the presidency by getting people involved. He is the person that can make this happen. He can make progress in 30 days if he announces this plan. Please pass this on to President Elect Obama.
Posted by: matthew | January 6, 2009, 9:37 pm 9:37 pm
Obama’s tax credit of $5oo for singles and $1000 for couples is an insult to the American people.Congress just voted themselves a $5000.00 a year RAISE. The people should at least get the same amount.After all, the taxpayers pay the bills.
Posted by: CW | January 6, 2009, 9:53 pm 9:53 pm
Obama’s tax credit of $5oo for singles and $1000 for couples is an insult to the American people.Congress just voted themselves a $5000.00 a year RAISE. The people should at least get the same amount.After all, the taxpayers pay the bills.
Posted by: CW | January 6, 2009, 9:55 pm 9:55 pm
Obama said today that he see’s trillion dollar or more deficits for several years (read until he is out of office). If he does not understand that the economic problems we have today are caused by our government spending more than they collect then he is simply not the man for the job. We have spent 7 trillion dollars in the last year via the fed printing money and it has had no effect. Obama spending us into oblivion will continue this failure. We have run up a 12 trillion dollar debt trying to live beyond our means and we have nothing to show for it. We spend nearly 350 billion dollars just to service that debt. When we add another trillion dollars to that debt we will pay another 30-50 billion dollars every year in interest. This is insanity.
Obama appears to have no other solution than to throw money at a problem that was caused by our government throwing around money that they didn’t not have in the first place. I really though Obama was smarter than that. If he does not get some economic advice soon we will be headed for a long term depression instead of a recession.
Posted by: James | January 6, 2009, 10:04 pm 10:04 pm
Matthew, WWII was not won because of the things you listed (although they helped). The reason we won is because the American people then believed in America and wanted to fit tyranny and depotism at all costs. Not just when it is convenient.
Posted by: Pat | January 6, 2009, 10:05 pm 10:05 pm
To Chris Cuomo,
I was VERY pleased with you interview of Barney Frank today — he needed to feel uncomfortable since need to address our problems in a more bottom-up manner.
We are wasting our TARP voter approved money so far — $350B for nothing that has made any difference except for the top tier of executives/corporations who received the money.
With Obama planned $775B plan do we really expect a difference to be made? Maybe but what we need is bottom up solutions (not all being costly public work projects). We need the people’s issues to be resolved – not executive/corporate issues to be resolved.
Here is a proposal that will address our broad economic issues from the bottom up – for all homeowners that refinanced their homes in the last 4 year (at the height of the residential pricing) then revalue their mortgages to what their current home valuation is — and use TARP and new Obama stimulus funds to pay off that mortgage difference.
Adopting some form of this bottom up proposal as described here will stimulate the broad populace to spend their money on all other consumer items.
Bottom up in the hands of the people vs top down in the hands of the few corporations is much more beneficial to the USA at this point.
I hope you think about what is proposed here since it has already been shown that throwing away money at the corporations and financial institutions has done nothing except put our country in further debt.
Regards,
Jerry Johnson
Posted by: Jerry Johnson | January 6, 2009, 10:18 pm 10:18 pm
George,
I was VERY pleased with Chris Cuomo interview of Barney Frank today — Barney needed to feel uncomfortable since need to address our problems in a more bottom-up manner.
We are wasting our TARP voter approved money so far — $350B for nothing that has made any difference except for the top tier of executives/corporations who received the money.
With Obama planned $775B plan do we really expect a difference to be made? Maybe but what we need is bottom up solutions (not all being costly public work projects). We need the people’s issues to be resolved – not executive/corporate issues to be resolved.
Here is a proposal that will address our broad economic issues from the bottom up – for all homeowners that refinanced their homes in the last 4 year (at the height of the residential pricing) then revalue their mortgages to what their current home valuation is — and use TARP and new Obama stimulus funds to pay off that mortgage difference.
Adopting some form of this bottom up proposal as described here will stimulate the broad populace to spend their money on all other consumer items.
Bottom up in the hands of the people vs top down in the hands of the few corporations is much more beneficial to the USA at this point.
I hope you think about what is proposed here since it has already been shown that throwing away money at the corporations and financial institutions has done nothing except put our country in further debt.
Regards,
Jerry Johnson
Posted by: Jerry Johnson | January 6, 2009, 10:20 pm 10:20 pm
Rushing this bill through so fast with limited hearings and no understanding from the American people will be the biggest PORK BILL in the history of our county. Let the PE wait until the job is done right and not to just because of a campagin promise. He has already broken many.
Posted by: William | January 6, 2009, 10:44 pm 10:44 pm
What a surprise! President Obama wants to get to work, while some in congress wants to play games and sit on their hands,I guess some old habits never die.
Posted by: marleen | January 6, 2009, 10:51 pm 10:51 pm
Here we go again. Speed more important than accuracy. What ever happened the the $700,000,000,000.00 that was meant to stimulate the economy? Oh that’s right, it went into the pockets of the banks that support our politicians. No accountability then, no accountability now.
Wake up people it’s time for an overthrow!
Posted by: Red Coat | January 6, 2009, 11:28 pm 11:28 pm
Get rid of the IRS.
Stop bailing out banks that think helping US (American Citizens) is too risky so they can spend their bailout money (MY TAX MONEY!!!) on investing in gold, oil and other commodities.
Stop chipping away our rights in the name of the War on Terror.
STAY AWAY FROM THE SOCIALIST MINDSET AMERICA!!! WE ARE FREE MEN AND WOMEN FOR NOW, BUT IN THE NEAR FUTURE, BE WARNED, THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION IS COMING! IT WILL BE FED TO EVERYONE AS A FIX-ALL! THE UNITED NATIONS IS NOT WHO WE ELECTED, BUT THE UN IS BEING PREPPED TO BE THE SEAT OF POWER FOR THE ELITE ‘ELECTED’, AND WHEN THAT HAPPENS, WE WONT BE AMERICANS ANYMORE WE WILL BE CITIZENS OF THE NORTH AMERICAN UNION, USING THE AMERO AS CURRENCY, AND THE AMERICAN DOLLAR WILL BE LAID TO REST AS OBSOLETE CURRENCY.
WAKE UP AMERICA BEFORE IT IS TOO LATE!!!
LISTEN TO THE POWER HOUR AND ALEX JONES AND JACK BLOOD WHILE WE STILL HAVE FREE INTERNET AND FREE SPEECH!!!!
Posted by: One Pissed American | January 6, 2009, 11:34 pm 11:34 pm
Maybe I am off base here but it seems to me that $1000 won’t stimulate the economy anymore than Bush’s stimulas package. That is not even enough money for most American’s to make a mortgage payment let alone have any left over to stimulate the economy with.
I don’t understand why we are sinking billions of dollars into a few banks that are obviously not making an impact on the state of our economy. They should have taken the amount of the bailout and divided it equally among all working Americans and by now we would already be on our way out of the recession. If each working America got a $100,000 bailout could you imagine where the economy would be right now? Consider this:
$100,000 is a large enough amount of money that American’s would feel secure enough to spend some of it, thus stimulating the economy.
$100,000 is also enough to feel okay about making a big purchase, thus stimulating the auto and housing markets.
$100,000 is enough to help America citizens dig their way out of their bad mortgages, overdue credit card bills, and educational loans.
Also, if each American had at least a $100,000 padding, credit markets would loosen up again because there would be a greater confidence from lenders that borrowers would have the means to follow through on their obligations.
Am I missing something? How did the goverment ever think that sinking money into a few businesses that are spending it on conferences and year end bonuses while the recession is gaining momentum, would have a more effective result than giving to Americans and asking them to invest in their country????
Posted by: What about the People | January 7, 2009, 12:00 am 12:00 am
I want to read the bill. How much PORK is going to be in this one? Idiot Obama said he wants NO PORK, but just watch! How transparent is his administration going to be if we don’t get to see the bill before it’s “introduced” to Congress on Monday?
This bill will only allow the government to “buy into” something it should stay out of, Private Industry! Socialism is on it’s way!
Posted by: Thomas Dockery | January 7, 2009, 12:06 am 12:06 am
Thomas Dockery: Can you even define “pork,” or is your rant meaningless to even you? I noticed Obama actually used terms that mean something and defined them in the same sentence, but I suppose you prefer meaningless bumbersticker slogans to actual substantive discussion.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 7, 2009, 1:01 am 1:01 am
What about the people: “They should have taken the amount of the bailout and divided it equally among all working Americans and by now we would already be on our way out of the recession. If each working America got a $100,000 bailout”
The banks are on the hook to pay back the money they received, and while the goverment is likely to only see $.60-$.70 on the dollar back, that is far more than giving seven million people (about NY city’s working population) $100,000 each.
Your math is wrong, your understanding of the bailout cost is wrong (it will ultimately be far less than $700 b), and that is likely why the professionals in government did not pursue such a poor idea.
Posted by: jhw539 | January 7, 2009, 1:06 am 1:06 am
Do it right, not fast, this time! A lot is riding on it.
Posted by: 1bluestocking | January 7, 2009, 1:28 am 1:28 am
If all of you folks blogging bs all over my monitor screen, would put as much effort into blogging your Congressmen and Senators as well as President Obama, to get the “Fair Tax Act of 2007″ passed, we would already have this bus out of the ditch.
Posted by: devilkev | January 7, 2009, 1:31 am 1:31 am
Just who is this “Stimulus Bill” guy and why does he want so much of my money?
Remember the last time he visited? Not much happened and he just makes things worse when he visits.
Someone close the doors and keep this clown out of our lives.
Perhaps if we returned to small government and less interference in our lives, these problems might be resolved? Hmm… Too simple. It’ll never work and the Liberal Press couldn’t have a well-working world, could they?
Posted by: Jon | January 7, 2009, 2:25 am 2:25 am
All PEBO knows is political expediency!
So lower your expectations, and get ready for a very bumpy ride to 2012! :(
Posted by: aware2u | January 7, 2009, 2:42 am 2:42 am
“The Perfect Stimulus Package-The government simply absorbs the remaining $350 billion from the stimulus bill…”
…and splits it evenly between every person who payed any federal tax in 2008. That would be a nice chunk of cash for each of us. It’s our money right?
Posted by: dk | January 7, 2009, 5:17 am 5:17 am
i hope 2012 will be the beginning of the 2nd American revolution. cause seriously, this government is ***t and needs to be rebuild from the ground up.
Posted by: truthhurtsdontit | January 7, 2009, 6:48 am 6:48 am
Whether you’re a Republican, Democrat or Independent, here is something that should cause a lot of introspection by every voter in America.
’545 People by Charlie Reese’
Politicians are the only people in the world who create problems and then campaign against them. Have you ever wondered why, if both the Democrats and the Republicans are against deficits, we have deficits? Have you ever wondered why, if all the politicians are against inflation and high taxes, we have inflation and high taxes?
You and I don’t propose a federal budget. The president does. You and I don’t have the Constitutional authority to vote on appropriations. The House of Representatives does.
You and I don’t write the tax code, Congress does. You and I don’t set fiscal policy, Congress does. You and I don’t control monetary policy, The Federal Reserve Bank does.
One hundred senators, 435 congressmen, one president and nine Supreme Court justices – 545 human beings out of the 300 million – are directly, legally, morally and individually responsible for the domestic problems that plague this country.
I excluded the members of the Federal Reserve Board because that problem was created by the Congress. In 1913, Congress delegated its Constitutional duty to provide a sound currency to a federally chartered but private central bank.
I excluded all the special interests and lobbyists for a sound reason. They have no legal authority. They have no ability to coerce a senator, a congressman or a president to do one cotton-picking thing.
I don’t care if they offer a politician $1 million dollars in cash. The politician has the power to accept or reject it. No matter what the lobbyist promises, it is the legislator’s responsibility to determine how he votes.
Those 545 human beings spend much of their energy convincing you that what they did is not their fault. They cooperate in this common con regardless of party.
What separates a politician from a normal human being is an excessive amount of gall. No normal human being would have the gall of a Speaker, who stood up and criticized the President for creating deficits.
The president can only propose a budget. He cannot force the Congress to accept it. The Constitution, which is the supreme law of the land, gives sole responsibility to the House of Representatives for originating and approving appropriations and taxes.
Who is the speaker of the House? She/he is the leader of the majority party. She/he and fellow House members, not the president, can approve any budget they want.
If the president vetoes it, they can pass it over his veto if they agree to.
It seems inconceivable to me that a nation of 300 million cannot replace 545 people who stand convicted — by present facts – of incompetence and irresponsibility. I can’t think of a single domestic problem that is not traceable directly to those 545 pe ople.
When you fully grasp the plain truth that 545 people exercise the power of the federal government, then it must follow that what exists is what they want to exist.
If the tax code is unfair, it’s because they want it unfair. If the budget is in the red, it’s because they want it in the red. If the Marines are in IRAQ, it’s because they want them in IRAQ.
If they do not receive social security but are on an elite retirement plan not available to the people, it’s because they want it that way.
There are no insoluble government problems.
Do not let these 545 people shift the blame to bureaucrats, whom they hire and whose jobs they can abolish; to lobbyists, whose gifts and advice they can reject; to regulators, to whom they give the power to regulate and from whom they can take this power.
Above all, do not let them con you into the belief that there exists disembodied mystical forces like ‘the economy,’ ‘inflation’ or ‘politics’ that prevent them from doing what they take an oath to do.
Those 545 people, and they alone, are responsible.
They, and they alone, have the power.
They, and they alone, should be held accountable by the people who are their bosses – provided the voters have the gumption to manage their own employees.
We should vote all of them out of office and clean up their mess!
And keep in mind this Congress only worked 93 days last year! The shortest season in history and at a time when we are at war and the economy is tumbling!
Posted by: Lizzie | January 7, 2009, 11:15 am 11:15 am
WOW, I just watched that video with Barney Frank….This guy needs to be removed from his chairmanship.
He is completely incompetent. He is a poster child for why the American Government cannot run anything in a intelligent manner.
All this puke can do is run around crying like 1st grader who lost lunch to a 5th grader.
Mommy, Mommy, that big bad Bush guy took my lunch…Mommy, Mommy…..
I know one thing for a fact. If the Democratic leadership keeps this idiot in control of money, we will end up in a depression. He was a MAJOR cause of all this mess and now he he blames US!!!
He says those of us in the private sector made “bad investments’ and sold them to each other. No mention of how he pushed & pushed these “bad investments” from the start! No mention of how he fought Republican attempts to put more regulation in place.
He started by babbling about the cost of Iraq, but made no mention of what the cost will be in Afganistan.
AND this Moron had the super brilliant idea of cutting defense spending by 25%!!
He is the height of arrogance & hypocrisy! Its everyone else’s fault!!!
Posted by: Mike_C | January 7, 2009, 1:02 pm 1:02 pm
WOW You guys were all right when Bush payed out money to you… You were totally and completely over joyed.. Now that PRESIDENT OBAMA wants to do the payout.. you guys are against it… It is because The United States of America has a black President… Ummmmm makes you want to think)
Posted by: Yes | January 7, 2009, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
WOW You guys were all right when Bush payed out money to you… You were totally and completely over joyed.. Now that PRESIDENT OBAMA wants to do the payout.. you guys are against it… It is because The United States of America has a black President… Ummmmm makes you want to think)
Posted by: Yes | January 7, 2009, 1:41 pm 1:41 pm
all you obama suc kers……..shut yo faces…and bend over cuz here it comes you winnie liberal twits
Posted by: America | January 7, 2009, 8:06 pm 8:06 pm
Does it cost a single person any less to run a household than it does a family? Single working people are paying the highest percentage of taxes and receiving the least amount when it comes to give backs. And if it’s like the last economic stimulus check, I won’t get any of it anyway so yes, I’m concerned and a bit angry. And HOW can Congress justify their wage increase when the auto workers haven’t had a raise in over 8 years? Why doesn’t Congress take a pay cut just like they want us to do? Another thing, how many of you would like to only have to put in 8 years of work (part time at best with all their breaks and vacations) and get full retirement plus all the perks? Unfair…at the tax payers’ expense. And WHEN was the last time that our Congress actually represented the will of the people instead of big business or big business’ lobbiests? Yes, we are in dire need of a change!
Posted by: Terri | January 8, 2009, 2:58 am 2:58 am
If you want the truth about how the automakers determine the wages of the employees versus Toyota and the other foreign car makers, please go to http://www.thetimesherald.com/ and look up “The Truth about UAW members and the U.S. auto industry”. This was a question and answer session that will outline just what is actually happening with the union wages versus what is being said. A real eye opener!
Posted by: Terri | January 8, 2009, 3:08 am 3:08 am
Hello George and America,
What you need to do Sunday is call in the Chief of the IRS!
WHY?? Can you say CROOKS? (Nixon did)
Has anyone been listening this year? Finances??? Greed??? Plus we want OUR CHANGE BACK! PLEASE MR. IRS GO GET THEM MONEY HUNGRY GREEDY CROOKS, since their are so many of them located everywhere in our country! (YOU MIGHT HAVE TO CALL IN HOMELAND SECURITY.) p.s. but the SEC won’t tell you! Neither will AGI!
HISTORY IS GOING TO BE MADE AT THIS GOVERNMENT OFFICE BRANCH VERY SOON. I bet they have some Procedure Books they can “lend” to the SEC, since the SEC don’t fellow ANY!!! I wonder who won the spa/cruise vacation at that Branch? This is probably the LAST year and the biggest year, 2009 not 2010 because we won’t receive a refund in 2010, Mr. IRS is going to keep it all, OUR paid SALARY taxes!! boooo-hoooo!!! This will be (in the making) the biggest pay-out the IRS does in HISTORY to us!!!!!! Plus look out, the IRS will be processing many amendments on taxpayers for repeat prior years and many audits on new york pent-house loser’s and corporate loser’s because of the fraudulent information given. Did you hear that STATES?? I think their will be a whole lot of shaking going around. I bet they hire extra’s for 2009. How about a new motto in 2009, “God forbid”
Any more stimulus packages!! They should BE STOPPED!!!!!!!!!!! How can you keep milking our cow when it has been dried up for the last few years! And now you take notice because the big shots are whining, American’s just doesn’t have it. Are you even awake in Washington D.C.? or does that town do a 24 sleep zone when in session. Lets begin with a number 2?? ADD MORE PORK,CRUISES,BONUS’S and more taxes for us! They forgot the cheese and milk with the whining and send us down the dead end roads to rot! BECAUSE some LEFT OUT THE “PROCEDURE BOOK” TO GO WITH THEM! Shame on you congress-senate! TOO LITTLE TO LATE!!! BIG CORPORATE OFFICE GO OUT OF BUSINESS. Sorry, but ?>*& happens!! I will not be spending my refund money on anything BIG CORPORATE, sounds like we will need it to SURVIVE! go ahead and say LIFE JACKET! Here is an old wise tale “How can you spend what you don’t have.” I would get in serious trouble with finances if I lived my life this way. And know one comes with a shining white horse. Remember priority, roof overhead, food, clothes on back, and work you tail off to keep it. Not buy the best, bigger, more, just what you need, not what you want. There is always that rainy day in life. Sounds like many over draft charges are coming someones way if you live like you want. It sure sounds like someone’s duck’s are going down. Though some of us our sooooo above the rest and you thought you had your ducks in a row.
Mr. Obama, president to be; you have your WORK cut out for you. Wish you all the luck! But please remember what Bill Clinton said “Do we want our children grandchildren to suffer this burden because of governments finance mistakes”?? It seems we do now. Yep, that’s change. After 16 years have gone by we would learn what????? How to be spend thrifts??? Well get ready America and Business’s we will NOW!
Posted by: TRACb | January 8, 2009, 4:02 am 4:02 am
This is what happens when rule of law is tossed aside in favor of always fudging it or “close enough”.
We have this born as a brit, raised as a muzzie indo at war with britian, not sure might have been born in Mombasa Kenya, but so what McCain was born in Panama – slow certain degradation…
So now we see the wannabe potus doesn’t give a dang we already have one, he’s playing house already. Bush was nice to him, the illegal alien liar, and give a criminal an inch and they take a mile.
Just like what Blagogevich saw develop – ge was accused, and evrery democrat in Illinois, Madigan, White, Durbin, the whole legislature , started openly breaking the law claiming it was all Rod’s fault. Even Harry the con land theif Reid got in on the liars illegal ignore the rules act.
After getting SLAPPED by thousands of people like me they all did a 180 in a few days. I wish they would have seen the jail cells they belong in.
Now the crimilibs want trillions more – to SAVE YOU.
What are they going to use to SAVE YOU from the extinction their global warming lie will cause ?
lol
They are the biggest smarming lying pieces of crap we have ever seen.
Yesterday Dopey, the one with the flappy ears, yappered the spending has to be gotten under control, then in the same paragraph of lairs spew- anoounced a multiple ongoing trillion dollar new deficit spending plan.
Yes, DOPEY, you’ve got it under control all right, control of the theft of TRILLIONS – quite a job comrade, the marxist training your communist mother delivered has paid off. Does your wife get her salary immediately doubled again, or did you two make more sirty arrangements with another Syrian criminal for the next crime spree?
Posted by: Slickico | January 8, 2009, 3:22 pm 3:22 pm
President-Elect Obama says a large
part of his trillion dollar
economic stimulas plan will go to
repairing our infrastructure(bridges,
roads and tunnels).
I thought that the Highway Trust Fund,
tolls on state and interstate roads and
federal gasoline taxes were supposed to
be used for repairing them.
Let’s get an accounting as to where this
money is going before the federal
government spends more money on
“infrastructure”!
Posted by: reaganfan | January 9, 2009, 7:52 pm 7:52 pm
Here’s where you can contact your US House and Senate Members. There is 2 areas, one to support the stimulus package and one area for suggestions.
http://www.fixhousingfirst.com
(To see the different areas to respond, click on ‘Tell Congress Now’. Then, you can proceed to select TAKE ACTION NOW (To support the current Stimulus Bill) or TAKE ACTION NOW (To input your own opinions or ideas). Who knows, they make actually read these!
Posted by: Kay | February 7, 2009, 1:59 am 1:59 am
Why not??? No man is an Island. America cant be too selfish.
Posted by: Mel | February 16, 2009, 6:51 am 6:51 am