finknottle Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 Wrong. It was never being sold as just an economic stimulus plan. Right from day one, as I posted earlier, there were 5-6 things it was supposed to do simultaneously, only one of them being to create immediate jobs and get the economy going. If you thought this bill was supposed to be just an economic stimulus plan you simply weren't following it. It was always, always, always supposed to be for both short and long term, it always included huge amounts for education. So basically, Obama is saying "we are in a crisis and must pass this stimulus bill immediately without lengthy deliberation, and oh by the way lets put in all the other stuff my party wants." Sounds like something Bush would do - I frequently confuse the two. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DC Tom Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 So basically, Obama is saying "we are in a crisis and must pass this stimulus bill immediately without lengthy deliberation, and oh by the way lets put in all the other stuff my party wants." Sounds like something Bush would do did - I frequently confuse the two. belinda Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
StupidNation Posted January 31, 2009 Share Posted January 31, 2009 I have an idea, why don't we all borrow money to fix our houses and hire contractors, they in turn will buy Chinese products from Walmart and Best Buy. Then when we have more problems we can turn around and borrow more money and do it over again. What happens when our creditors stop giving us money? Well we can counterfeit the money and decrease the value of the existing money, then investors would have even less confidence in our markets and run. Finknottle is spot on. Without production the stimulus is a lie sold to the people as a known lie that will turn a recession into a depression with a dollar crisis and loss of worldwide confidence in our currency. I'm very happy the Republicans voted against the bill in the House, if only they did the same thing when Bush was in office we wouldn't be in this mess. Republicans lost their soul to socialism and now they want to be free-marketers and the dems blame the free-market and we haven't had one of those for 80 years. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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