tangent4ronpaul
02-11-2009, 09:16 AM
There really is a good side - we shouldn't be so negative all the time.
First off, the 7 or 8 congress critters "reconsiling"(sp?) the House and Senate versions for once have to READ THE DAMB THING before they vote on it. Not only that, they have to read BOTH of those PHONE BOOK sized documents and for once will know what they are actually voting on.
Second, it's got high school students talking about it and asking excellent questions on national TV:
Q) How will you know if the stimulus worked and what is plan B?
A) It's predicted that it would take a couple of years to get the economy going if they did nothing, so if the economy gets going faster, it worked. There is no plan B.
Q) How are we going to pay all this money back?
A) Congress has decided to ignore that issue for now and deal with it later.
Q) What is Congress doing about illegal immigration - that costs americans jobs.
A) Congress isn't doing anything about it right now.
Q) What's going to happen to all these "green collar jobs" being created when the funding goes away?
A) Hopefully they will continue on their own.
Someone else called in and asked why reconsiling the bills was being done behind closed doors. Apparently Congress didn't consider letting the TV camera's in as they could work faster without the "distraction".
An older woman called in an asside from the usual ranting about her retirement shrinking because a lot of was locked up in a 401K, she asked the very pointed question: Isn't printing all this money going to make my money be worth less and further erode my retirement income? - SMILE! - people are getting it! FINALLY!
Another person asked what are all these tax cuts are going to do to help the unemployed - absolutely nothing!
Obama is pushing spending, while popular support is behind tax cuts - he's also having to try way to hard to push this over on the American people - that's going to burn some political capitol and erode his approval rating.
So when this pink elephant crashes and burns, when we are 10 Trillion more in debt (total) and the recession turns into a depression - then it's going to be harder for Obama to push through his agenda and a lot easier to replace Congress.
Yes, I think getting our country back just might be worth 10 Trillion dollars and some hard years ahead.
-t
First off, the 7 or 8 congress critters "reconsiling"(sp?) the House and Senate versions for once have to READ THE DAMB THING before they vote on it. Not only that, they have to read BOTH of those PHONE BOOK sized documents and for once will know what they are actually voting on.
Second, it's got high school students talking about it and asking excellent questions on national TV:
Q) How will you know if the stimulus worked and what is plan B?
A) It's predicted that it would take a couple of years to get the economy going if they did nothing, so if the economy gets going faster, it worked. There is no plan B.
Q) How are we going to pay all this money back?
A) Congress has decided to ignore that issue for now and deal with it later.
Q) What is Congress doing about illegal immigration - that costs americans jobs.
A) Congress isn't doing anything about it right now.
Q) What's going to happen to all these "green collar jobs" being created when the funding goes away?
A) Hopefully they will continue on their own.
Someone else called in and asked why reconsiling the bills was being done behind closed doors. Apparently Congress didn't consider letting the TV camera's in as they could work faster without the "distraction".
An older woman called in an asside from the usual ranting about her retirement shrinking because a lot of was locked up in a 401K, she asked the very pointed question: Isn't printing all this money going to make my money be worth less and further erode my retirement income? - SMILE! - people are getting it! FINALLY!
Another person asked what are all these tax cuts are going to do to help the unemployed - absolutely nothing!
Obama is pushing spending, while popular support is behind tax cuts - he's also having to try way to hard to push this over on the American people - that's going to burn some political capitol and erode his approval rating.
So when this pink elephant crashes and burns, when we are 10 Trillion more in debt (total) and the recession turns into a depression - then it's going to be harder for Obama to push through his agenda and a lot easier to replace Congress.
Yes, I think getting our country back just might be worth 10 Trillion dollars and some hard years ahead.
-t