This plan is more than a prescription for short-term spending -- it's a strategy for America's long-term growth and opportunity in areas such as renewable energy, health care and education. And it's a strategy that will be implemented with unprecedented transparency and accountability, so Americans know where their tax dollars are going and how they are being spent.
In recent days, there have been misguided criticisms of this plan that echo the failed theories that helped lead us into this crisis -- the notion that tax cuts alone will solve all our problems; that we can meet our enormous tests with half-steps and piecemeal measures; that we can ignore fundamental challenges such as energy independence and the high cost of health care and still expect our economy and our country to thrive.
I reject these theories, and so did the American people when they went to the polls in November and voted resoundingly for change.
Back in it to win it.
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Don't worry about the stimulus and don't listen to all the kvetching going on. The Repubs' obstructionism was ABSOLUTELY 100% predictable, and BHO would have to be an idiot to have not seen it coming. He's not an idiot.
We can speculate as to whether he's giving them enough rope to hang themselves, whether he's playing a short or long game or whatever, but bottom line is that I think everybody should just chill and let him handle it.
Personally, I would immediately cut off payments to all red state budgets and let those governors start screaming bloody murder to their congressional brethren, but that's just me...
Someone tell me where is this money coming from for this stimulus package? $900 billion dollars, is this in addition to the wall street bailout or is it one lump sum? I have a plan that might appease the atheists and give good commentary on our society. Remove "In God We Trust" from our currency, and replace "We Reward Failure."
This Stimulus Package and the first few weeks of our 44th President reminds me of a quote from Heinlein's Starship Troopers explaining the collapse of modern democracy. The quote goes something like: "people had been led to believe that they could simply vote for whatever they wanted and get it, without toil, without sweat, without tears."
So to prevent Heinlein's fictional future, the Republicans need to stand up in the face of this unchecked spending spree, and convince others to stop this make believe fairy-tale in which Congress can vote for whatever, whenever, and get it.
So after this influx of cash, explain to me how does this fix the problem? Other than compound it more and put the burden on the American taxpayer? I remember Obama made a campaign promise: "Here's what I can tell the American people: 95 percent of you will get a tax cut." I highly doubt that when your throwing around 10% of the national debt at anything, we'll see tax cuts.
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