White House Outlines Next Six Months of Stimulus Efforts

BIG SCARE: OBAMA WARNS USA ‘WILL GO BANKRUPT’ WITHOUT HEALTH BILL…
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Obama desperate….. now resorting to fearmongering

Having nothing edifying to say about the health care reform efforts currently underway, I’ll make a medical comment:
Ed needs to discover naproxen sodium. Hasn’t he seen the commercials?!

One can almost see the Obama administration trying to time the stimulus money payouts to coincide with the 2010 elections, trying to save face. Pretty heartless and politically cynical considering how many Americans are suffering.
The Audacity of Copenhagen | Dec 16, 2009 9:48:49 PM
The payout rate was set by the original law, and it was always intended to take some time to get the money out. Indeed, one of the Republican attacks on the bill was that it wouldn’t get money out in time to do anything.
Republicans have reason to worry – if the stimulus works (as it and TARP appears to be doing so) then their blanket opposition is going to look awfully bad come 2010. All the Republicans will have left at that point is hoping for a terrorist attacks on Americans they can blame Obama for.

Oh boy! it will be Christmas all year for the “right people”. I guess the people in Detroit looking for Obama bucks might be in luck. In response to “if the stimulus works it will make blanket opposition look bad”. This might be true-or it may not because one thing is for certain and that is debt, not just the deficit but all the unfunded liabilities coming down the pike for all these yummies our Government is handing out courtesy of we the tax payers.
We are attempting to borrow our way out of debt and just like the the people who get caught up in those pay day loans where they end up paying off one loan only to turn around and get a bigger one and then one day they owe more than they can ever pay back. We’re just about there as a country.

BIG SCARE: OBAMA WARNS USA ‘WILL GO BANKRUPT’ WITHOUT HEALTH BILL…
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Obama desperate….. now resorting to fearmongering
Posted by: welcome to Obamaville,the fastest growing homeless community | Dec 16, 2009 9:39:34 PM
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You haven`t really been doing much research on this have you?

Ohhh, jobs…..didn’t know you WestWingers thought we were just talking about our jobs instead of yelling day after day….JOBS…WE NEED JOBS………and, please, no more of the created and saved crap………spend some our deficit funds on job creation……
Posted by: justj joey | Dec 16, 2009 10:12:06 PM
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(Just as you asked) a jobs bill just passed Congress today – not a single Republican voted for the jobs bill. Remember that.

Only 10 days left in this year. The New Year is only days away. Don’t fret.

well night everyone, its been fun making Obama look like the naive, inexperienced guy that he is..
Breaking news::::::
Union pulls back on supporting healthcare bill

We are watching history in the making. Our economy is being systematically destroyed by our own government. Our enemies must be watching in disbelief as Obama, Pelosi, and Reid do more economic damage to us than they ever could.
My thanks to ignorant American voters and the media for making all of this possible.

Let me guess – you think the solution is another tax cut, right?
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Let me guess – you think you can borrow your way out of debt.

The Center on Budget and Policy Priorities: “Some critics charge that the new policies pursued by President Obama and the 111th Congress generated the huge federal budget deficits that the nation now faces. In fact, the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic downturn together explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years….If not for the tax cuts enacted during the Presidency of George W. Bush that Congress did not pay for, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that began during that period, and the effects of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression (including the cost of steps necessary to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term.”
Why is that relevant? Well, if Republican legislators and those who elected them embraced policies in the not-so-distant past that are responsible for the deficit (and they did), and now those very same Republicans are complaining and blaming others, then that is worth talking about. Those who truly believe deficit reduction needs to be a top national priority should research and crunch the numbers pertaining to which party’s proposals are more effective in improving the fiscal picture.
The party that has been more effective in that regard?
The Democrats.

“Those who truly believe deficit reduction needs to be a top national priority should research and crunch the numbers pertaining to which party’s proposals are more effective in improving the fiscal picture.”
Pfft. Google “US national debt clock real time”. Crunch that.

“Some critics charge that the new policies pursued by President Obama and the 111th Congress generated the huge federal budget deficits that the nation now faces. In fact, the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic downturn together explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years….If not for the tax cuts enacted during the Presidency of George W. Bush that Congress did not pay for, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that began during that period, and the effects of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression (including the cost of steps necessary to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term.”
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Shhhh! You’ll upset the right wingers and Republicans – they’ll have to face up to their record.

Tax cuts have been PROVEN to not work to stimulate the economy….
The internet was created and fostered by pork deficit government spending. Wonder if it ever paid off.
Posted by: jhw539 |
So you are calling POTUS a fool and a liar for this from his website…
“Barack Obama’s tax plan delivers broad-based tax relief to middle class families and cuts taxes for small businesses and companies that create jobs in America, while restoring fairness to our tax code and returning to fiscal responsibility. Coupled with Obama’s commitment to invest in key areas like health, clean energy, innovation and education, his tax plan will help restore bottom-up economic growth that helps create good jobs in America and empowers all families achieve the American dream.”
The federal deficit was created and fostered by pork deficit government spending. Wonder if it will ever be paid off.

Posted by: Jenn | Dec 16, 2009 11:38:03 PM
How’s this for reality?
“Some critics charge that the new policies pursued by President Obama and the 111th Congress generated the huge federal budget deficits that the nation now faces. In fact, the tax cuts enacted under President George W. Bush, the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq, and the economic downturn together explain virtually the entire deficit over the next ten years….If not for the tax cuts enacted during the Presidency of George W. Bush that Congress did not pay for, the cost of the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan that began during that period, and the effects of the worst economic slump since the Great Depression (including the cost of steps necessary to combat it), we would not be facing these huge deficits in the near term.”

Nearly 50% unemployment in Detroit was just reported. How’s that for “reality”?
Posted by: Jenn | Dec 16, 2009 11:38:03 PM
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Would’ve been so much better if we’d just let the auto industry collapse entirely. Stinkin’ bailouts. Oh wait… are we supposed to care about the people in Detroit or not (you’ve convinced me and I’m totally a conservative watching the debt clock now– I just haven’t gotten the “have no heart, but will pretend to have one to make partisan points” thing down yet. Maybe Rush Limbaugh has pointers?)
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Hah! Dribbling and attacking out of both sides of their mouths.

“Perhaps you’re ignorant of the fact that Bill Clinton raised taxes AND created 4 times as many jobs as Bush’s trillion dollar give away to the rich?”
Well, if raising taxes is the answer, then Obama should raise everyone’s taxes to 80% of earnings (oh, and 150% for the filthy rich). That’ll create a huge ECONOMIC BOOM, won’t it?

Well, if raising taxes is the answer, then Obama should raise everyone’s taxes to 80% of earnings (oh, and 150% for the filthy rich). That’ll create a huge ECONOMIC BOOM, won’t it?
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Now this is just silly . ..

As for what all that deficit spending bought us, we live in the most prosperous free nation mankind has ever seen.
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You are now arguing that we owe our prosperity to deficit spending. That explains much.

Well, if raising taxes is the answer, then Obama should raise everyone’s taxes to 80% of earnings (oh, and 150% for the filthy rich). That’ll create a huge ECONOMIC BOOM, won’t it?
Jenn | Dec 16, 2009 11:57:41 PM
And taking 30 asprin is the best way to really take care of a headache.
What any reasonable person would consider is raising taxes back to the levels they were during the 90′s, when the budget crept towards a SURPLUS and four times as many jobs were created as under the Republicans repeated tax giveaways to the wealthy and corporation. Or at least raise the capital gains tax back up the level Reagan left it at in 1988 after his tax slashing. Taxes haven’t been this low since the 20′s, they’re lower than any other first world nation in existence – gee, wonder if this has anything to do with the deficit problem?

In the last hour, you’ve called POTUS a liar and a fool for his published postions on taxes and asserted that deficit spending made our country great with the caveat that Republican deficit spending has crippled us and saddled us with huge debt that threatens our greatness.
How can I argue with that?
Foghorn Leghorn | Dec 17, 2009 12:48:01 AM
By talking to yourself I would guess as I did say that.

Republicans after inheriting a surplus never considered that it might be a good idea to build the surplus even higher, sort of the cliched ‘rainy day’ fund…. and they say they are the business people….. what a joke, they just give it all away to their rich buds, who in turn collapsed the economy….
interesting that the ‘great depression’, the savings & loan scandals and bailouts of the late 80′s, and the current financial mess all started with republican administrations…..
as the old saying goes, those who ignore Republican history are doomed to repeat it

businesses are being squeezed by lack of consumers.
Posted by: mjishernameo
so, why do republicans continually crash the economy, the great depression, savings & loans and now..
if you crash the economy, put people out of work, and want to destroy the middle class as part of your party platform it shouldn’t be surprising that people are reluctant to spend.

typical republican stuff, do the crime, rationalize the crime, say you didn’t mean what you said
the Arizona GOP executive director charged with using the party’s voter registration database to stalk a woman: the bizarre response from Mecum’s boss.
Here’s what party chair Randy Pullen, who is also the treasurer of the Republican National Committee, told an Arizona political site about the claim that Mecum had used Voter Vault to find the woman’s address:
The Republican National Committee owns Voter Vault … It’s a private list. We own the list. We can do what we want with the list, quite frankly.
It’s a felony to use a voter registration database for anything other than official purposes. in Arizona, it can get you a couple years of prison time,

Posted by: Terry
america,,, 2001 to 1/20/2009, republican programs carried to their logical outcome.

“Taxes haven’t been this low since the 20′s, they’re lower than any other first world nation in existence – gee, wonder if this has anything to do with the deficit problem?”
I wonder if it has anything to do with TRILLIONS in SPENDING beyond tax receipts. I wonder if it has anything to do with 47% of “taxpayers” not paying any federal income tax at all (it was 40% before Obama came to power).
It’s so obvious that a huge debt problem is solved by spending TRILLIONS more as tax receipts continue to fall. Let’s not cut billions in government waste, worthless departments and programs, and welfare to illegal immigrants. Let’s throw even more money we don’t have in those areas! Yeah, that’ll catapult us all to prosperity.
It’s hilarious watching liberals continue to defend Obama when he’s not even listening to them. He dissapoints his leftist base on a daily basis. He just killed the healthcare bill provision to buy cheaper drugs from other countries. Not a peep from the sycophants. Just more rants of “But Bush!” They live in a world of delusion.
Liberals are in a for a very, very harsh 2010. And I’m not even talking about the election.

Let’s not cut billions in government waste, worthless departments and programs, and welfare to illegal immigrants.
Jenn | Dec 17, 2009 2:21:05 AM
What a joke. You think that sliver of the budget is responsible for the deficit problem?
(And I won’t even get into the documented fact that Reagan’s invention of the EIC and Republican tax cuts are to blame for so many falling off the Federal income tax rolls.)

Gibb’s analogies are rather weak. Once the car is jump started you don’t leave the jumper cables still connected. You let the driver and car go on their merry way.

. Your socialist, re-distributionist dreams are coming true.
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You Republicans have to make up your minds – is Obama padding the pockets of Wall Street, big business and the health insurance industry OR is he a socialist redistributing wealth to the poor? Make up your minds – you sound very confused.

Great news folks !! I just looked on the “green jobs” website for Philly and guess what??? ACORN is hiring….and guess what??? It’s part of the “stimulus”…
whew! I was really scared we were going to lose this precious resouce. ACORN and Biden….perfect !!!
and tierra: I can’t give you a link on this site because this comment service won’t allow…so, since I know how important it is to you that I provide you the benefit of my research I’d suggest you google…”philadelphia green jobs” then click on the positions available list.
It’s around 5th or 6th on the list and provides a long descriptin of the job, which is basically knocking on doors for the democratic party. Huh, that doesn’t seem green to me but , hey I’m just a stupid conservative right?
I’m sure you know much better where our money should go…..

Posted by: mjishernameo
you should say that your info is from Malkin’s site