‘Main Street’ TARP

So, in reality, another slush fund for the Failure-In-Chief to steal from in order to fund his vote-buying schemes.
GOVERNMENT *IS* THE PROBLEM, NOT THE SOLUTION

How about just giving the money back to the tax payers (those that actually paid tax) and let the spend it where they want?

Education is the solution.
Government controlling minutiae is a waste of money.
You can apply your own weatherstripping…what a joke!
Democrats treat people like they are little children that have to be taken care of. This is about power and control and I resent a bunch of paper pushing, bloviating, bureaucrats pissing our childrens financial futures away. What we are doing to our country is truly irresponsible.

money is on it’s way to philly to teach unemployed men how to apply weather strip to doors and windows.
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Oh my gosh! Giving the poor a chance to earn a few dollars – what a travesty! Let them eat cake!
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There are much, much better ways to provide employment for people. How about supporting small business? How about halting this massive deficit that will surely put small businesses out of business? Surely you can see that training someone to weather strip a door is not a job, its unsustainable and most of the dollars are being grabbed up by bogus non profit community organizer groups that will be “training”….It’s BAD for the inner city unemployed. Like all liberal policies, it keeps the poor, POOR…and dependant.

I live in the philly burbs. I lived in the city for years but moved out because I was victimized several times by the thugs that roam the streets.
Lets just see how many people this plan employs, lets just see what they do after the lump sum is dumped on them….or are we expected to make payroll indefinatly for this “weatherization” plan.
The chronically unemployed, the ex offenders, the life long welfare recipients will not be helped by this, the money would be much better spent in so many ways that might really empower the powerless.
Liberals think throwing money at the poor is compassion.
Conservatives know that it’s short sighted and stupid. A well thought out plan to lift people to a place where they can produce, they can earn, they can continue to earn and do well is only inhibited by throwing cash their way. And although many liberal voters truly are compassionate people, I’m sure, they fall for these “feel good” policies that democrates cook up. Policies that more often than not wind up infested with corruption, back room deals, and little compassion for the poor.
This weatherization is a money grab. If it makes it easier for you to sleep at night with your loft and apartment buildings then I guess its working.

“…the money would be much better spent in so many ways that might really empower the powerless.”
Conservatives are always full of supposedly better ideas other than the ones thought up by the Democrats to help the disadvantaged. However their Republican elected officials conveniently never make any effort to actually implement them. What good are any better ways the money could be spent if it never happens anyway?

Some of your comments strike me as short-sighted and much less than entrepreneurial.
Posted by: Cara A | Dec 9, 2009 9:29:50 AM
Cara, we’re using money provided by the government – money the government doesn’t have and there has to borrow, saddling future generations with massive debt. That’s short-sighted and it’s not entreprenurial – unless you think dreaming up ways to spend our tax dollars as entreprenurial.
And has anyone gotten a job from a poor person yet because that was part of Obama’s campaign: trickle up economics.

Today in the Washington Times:
“Chalk up another 500 jobs to the list of jobs President Obama will need to create or save.
A Pittsburgh-based coal company, CONSOL Energy, will lay off nearly 500 of its West Virginia workers next year and its CEO blames environmentalists dead-set against mountaintop mining who have waged “nuisance” lawsuits for the job loss.
But CONSOL Energy’s political problems are not unique to the mining industry, which has suffered under the Obama Administration. The Environmental Protection Agency is already holding 79 surface mining permits in West Virginia, Kentucky, Ohio and Tennessee. The EPA says these permits could violate the Clean Water Act and warrant “enhanced” review. And, agency went even further in October, announcing plans to revoke a permit for the Spruce No. 1 Mine in West Virginia.
The latest setback for the coal industry was announced on Tuesday when CONSOL Energy said close to 500 workers would lose jobs at their Fola Operations location near Bickmore, West Virginia in February 2010.
CEO Nicholas J. DeIuliis said the poor economy compounded by legal challenges by environmental activists forced CONSOL to slash jobs.
“It is challenging enough to operate our coal and gas assets in the current economic downturn without having to contend with a constant stream of activism in rehashing and reinterpreting permit applications that have already been approved or in the inequitable oversight of our operations,” he said in a statement. “Customers will grow reluctant to deal with energy producers they perceive are unable to guarantee a reliable supply due to regulatory uncertainty. It inhibits the ability to remain competitive.”
So how’s that Hope and Change working for you?

So how’s that Hope and Change working for you?
Posted by: Jenn
as opposed to what?
what went on when the Republicans were in control of the government….
I could well ask you how’s that ‘compassionate conservatism’ work out….
Dems have a chance to do something, if they don’t, they will be voted out as they should be if that’s the case….
blind faith and party affiliation were key in leading us to where we are now….
new ideas must be tried, they may or may not work, but, we know that the proverbial status quo leads to stagnation failure for most Americans