Stimulus No Votes Were a Republican Mistake

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Since 11 Democrats, or there about, voted in locked step with all the Republicans, looks to me like the YES vote is the partisan vote and should be the vote we cast dispersions upon.

Gary Fenney of WI 5:29PM February 02, 2009

This pkg is PORK. We need a real pkg that will make real jobs and nt "do nothing: government jobs that do not produce. We need jobs that produce a product that can be sold.

Thomas Long of OH 2:53PM February 02, 2009

The stimulus pkg, as it is now is just full of bad, bad spending. If it were aimed at job creation I would be all in. I do not want any more "do nothing: government office jobs to be made. How about some real jobs that actually produce something that can be sold ?

Chris Long of OH 2:28PM February 02, 2009

Really....Has government really ever improved ANYTHING??
And anyone who thinks George Bush was a fiscal conservative really doesn't know much about conservatism.
As the president pointed out, he won the election. The Republicans were finally smart enough to stay away and let the Dems take credit/ responsibility for the mess that is being created. I only hope the Senate Repblicans will do the same, but I doubt that there is enough integrity there.
I will cast my next vote for the person who not only says that we have too much legislation, but that we also need to get rid of about half of the regulations that have already passed.

Dennis K. of NV 2:24PM February 02, 2009

I thought Nobama was going to pay people's mortgages and fill up their gas tanks. When is this going to happen. I guess it will happen when pigs fly. Oh thats right, they are right there in this Stimulus bill, there is enough pork in there already.
'W' and McCain are both too liberal. What we need is a real conservative and someone who wants to protect the constitution. Government needs to butt out of people's lives and do what it was designed to do. Protect the country from threats.

Matt of LA 1:50PM February 02, 2009

You are a liberal idiot for believing this stimulus package is going to do the US any good. What kind of jobs is planting grass seed going to create? What kind of moron would support the idea that citizens of the US should pay for a stupid water park in Florida that 3/4 of us REAL people cannot afford to get to to visit? You idiots need to actually read the stupidity that is in this stimulus package and really pay attention instead of using the liberal rose-colored glasses that made you all vote for the socialist moron who is now in charge of our country. Wake up and smell the coffee burning - Liberals are only in this for themselves, they are not helping any of us here in the US

Lisa of WI 1:44PM February 02, 2009

As a Democrat, I feel they fell in line with Bush for 6 years because of fear. Now most of them are doing it again with Obama. Being elected President does not make him always right. We need our Congressmen/women to be for us, not Obama. It is their place to keep the balance in Washington. This stimulus package is just a pie in the sky. Just like the last one were they threw good money after bad. Wake up and let us vote on the merits of the bill, each item. Don't throw our money away to keep campaign promises, which is what Obama is doing.

katherine of IN 12:53PM January 31, 2009

Thank heaven SOMEONE has a bit of sense! This so-called stimulus is little more than an(as we sadly expected) an avalanche of PORK for liberal causes. Hundreds of millions for the Nat'l Endowment for the Arts? Give me a break (yeah, I know that's not likely).
If you study it, you'll find that liberal do-gooderness is the primary cause of the current financial disaster - the mortgage crisis. Liberals believe they can annul the laws of economics and human nature. Not bloody likely and the price is likely to be pretty horrific.

An economics careerist of MO 11:53PM January 29, 2009

The past administration created the problem. Maybe they would like a repeat of the Paulson solution again. Then maybe they are hoping that the new administration will not be successful and America will go down the drain and they will be spectators and onlookers until they can create another tax reduction program that will put them back in power.
The simple fact is the American people have spoken but the Republicans don't remember who won the election. Sleep on. Maybe the problem is only a bad dream.

Lowell Bond of FL 10:17PM January 29, 2009

Should recipients of taxpayer favors continue to send jobs offshore?
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http://pacificgatepost.blogspot.com/2009/01/should-bailout-beneficiaries-be.html
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Where are the controls?
Where is the common sense?

James Raider of WA 9:54PM January 29, 2009