If we do not move swiftly to sign the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act into law, an economy that is in crisis will be faced with catastrophe. Millions more Americans will lose their jobs. Homes will be lost. Families will go without health care. Our crippling dependence on foreign oil will continue.
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I invite you all to look at the stimulus bill. Search on your city/state, and take a close look. Are there any landscaping, or traffic light improvements, or companies that exist only on paper in your area? Ohio, which has been in recession for perhaps a decade now, gets a whopping $4billion of the $937Billion in the package. Even out of that $4billion, I found tens of millions in my little corner of Ohio that are tagged for completely useless projects ($7million for landscaping around interstate I-77 for example).
What can you find in your area?
(NOTE TO OBAMATONS: I agree with a lot in the package, but most of the things I’ve seen are not stimulus, and there is a lot of BS in there. Blind obedience to The One is not something I suggest or embrace regardless of how many halo pics I see.)
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I guess this is based on the House version, so it’s probably already obsolete. My city makes out great. Our Mayor has been in office since the year I was born, he’s got lot’s of connections in Washington.
I get daily calls from contractors begging for work. They are literally doing nothing but sitting at home watching the bills come in…
Obama really is a weird duck. It’s as if he is from Kenya, Indonesia or some place foreign.
Gov Crist has loaded up on the Florida shovel ready waste of money spending. It’s sad that grown men and wo,men act this way with other people’s money. Most of the money is targeted at the inner city, where the Obama voters are.
Hey honey, they canceled our overdrawn credit cards, but not to worry, we got another pre-qualified card in the mail today, so let’s party.
Yet *another* picture framed to put the circle around his head to make him appear holy and saintly. Brilliant.
Barack Obama “Screwed Up”——Again
Last night President Obama issued some stern words to Republicans and Democrats claiming that top economist are saying that this stimulus bill, (as written), will help the economy recover. The Cato Institute along with hundreds of the top economist in the country does not agree.
With support for this porkfest plummeting across the fruited plains, instead of Obama taking the responsible road by insisting the Senate re-write the bill in its entirety, this sniveling idiot pulls a “Blagojevich” by claiming he has done nothing wrong while at the same time insulting the general public’s intelligence by spouting ridiculous tirades such as “I won”, while accusing some of the bill’s critics of “phony arguments and petty politics.” Spending 920 billion at the taxpayer’s expense is hardly petty or phony Mr. President. Obama is not being genuine or responsible to the people of this nation by calling his critics of this porkfest childish names, or by making purely partisan comments such as he did last night. The people of this great nation are watching and they are rejecting this stimulus bill because it is not only seriously flawed, it is fiscally insulting—- even to those who voted for him.
It’s time to start over Mr. President—-and admit you screwed up—–again.
Even the Congressional Budget Office says it would be better to pass nothing than to pass the House version.
Considering everything that Obama has done in these first three weeks, would now be a good time to start talking impeachment?
On closer inspection these aren’t actual projects in the bill, just proposed projects that may or may not qualify if the bill were passed. A gimme list from mayors and governors.
Impeachment? God no. That would make Biden president. Wait until Biden screws up royally. Never mind. Obama would just appoint one of his many tax dodgers or other cheats. Is the democratic party made up up of anything else? The hierarchy is scary though: Obama, Biden, Pelosi, Clinton. Whew!!! That would be a lot of impeachments and with a new democrat in nothing would be changed. Still graft and corruption.
If President Hypocrite is so worried about the world ending, all he has to do is lower the capital gains tax and things will start getting back to good again a LOT sooner than this worthless “stimulus”. Where are the good-for-nothing Republicans? Why are they not out there *demanding* Obama lower the capital gains tax and getting onto every mass media outlet possible to explain to the American public how that would help create jobs? The GOP is absolutely pathetic. They have this issue won, yet they refuse to lead.
From the actual Stinkulus bill:
Funny, when Bush warned of the terrorist threat he was using fear
to get his way per the left.
Obama tells a blatant lie and silence. Surprise.
From the Times…
Et tu,
BruteTimes ?Aye Chihuahua,
It might be more prudent to wait until Obama frees all the Gitmo detainees.
@Rovin:
You’re right.
I had taken the Gitmo thing into consideration along with what has already happened. The dropping of the charges against the USS Cole suspect was enough for me.
I was thinking of heading him off at the pass so to speak.
Lindsay Graham has had an epiphany?
Just call Obama Spendulus Rex.
great picture…how did you catch the Halo Effect?
Was he walking on water at the time?
My leg is still tingling…
No. He was sprinting through the woods with his unicorn. Rainbows and flowers were out in force.
Gad what a puss. Sometimes doing nothing and letting things heal on their own is the best course. This boondoggle will stimulate the economy about as well as tying kittens up in a sack and throwing them in the river teaches kittens to swim.
Pease, don’t just doooo something! Sit there!
With all that splash in the pan yesterday and last night in Obama’s take it to the public media blitz, what happened? In between the big O’s events Harry Reid said he had the votes….he does have the votes?…….right?……did have? Who knows? Anybody know what’s rattling about in our Senate leader’s head?
Next day arriving on the scene, without the sizzle, party or AF1 is reality, this thing is dropping like a lead balloon.
Tentative stimulus deal:
http://content.usatoday.com/communities/theoval/post/2009/02/62499443/1
Before getting more tax payer money they should at least prove some relation between the bailout and some some good done by it in the credit markets.
The word “stimulus” is so vague; most of the spending package will provide *some* level of stimulus. The real issue worth debating is whether any given project would have normally passed the appropriations process (and whether emergency measures are needed)
In my estimation, 1/3 to maybe 2/3 of the package would likely pass appropriations, and the rest is special interest pandering (in other words, I smell bacon!) Especially considering that most of the money in the package isn’t going to be spent immediately, I think most of the projects should go through the appropriations process. If we feel the need to sneak them to the “head” of the line for early consideration, I won’t object too loudly. There’s no good reason (other than partisan ramrodding) to force this crapburger down our throats!
What really gets my goat is that in order to get enough GOP support, big level Dems met with “moderate” Reps in secret meetings to secure enough votes for passage. So much for transparency and “sunlighting!”
Equally galling is this: the House of Representatives is supposed to reflect the will of the people, so how can the House pass a bill that the people overwhelmingly oppose? I can see the Senate going against public opinion if they (the Senate members) believe they are doing the right thing, but not the House! That’s specifically why we have the two different houses of Congress – to balance the opinion of the majority with the rights of the minority. I know that this may not be the best time for political theory, but it has been a thorn in my side for many years.
JV
Not only did they meet with the three moderates in the GOP, they targeted their states with their unemployment numbers, Obama will also be visiting areas in these states next week. Leaving nothing left to chance, Snowe, Collins and Specter apparently thought they were bargaining in good faith, I think not. The dems jumped on their agreement and then attacked them.
Read through a couple of articles in Maine papers this morning. Comment sections were showing quite a few disgruntled folks up there, Collins suffered the worse.
And yes, Larry, there is now a tentative agreement, no vote yet, and nothing coming until Monday or Tuesday. Bit different from what Reid has been promising. Hope constituents in the three states can scare some sense in the three that went wobbly in the knees.