First of all, your claim that "all economists agree on both sides agree" is a complete load of bunk. Henry Morgenthau, FDR's SecTres, testifying before the House Ways and Means Committee in May 1939: "We are spending more money than we have ever spent before and it does not work. I want to see this country prosperous. I want to see people get a job. We have never made good on our promises. I say after eight years of this administration we have just as much unemployment as when we started and an enormous debt to boot."
That is the PLAN that Obama, Reid and Pelosi have for America today. Economists and historians agree that nothing that FDR did was successful in getting the USA out of the Great Depression.
Trying to oppose the massive spending that will not get us out of our recession, IS doing something. The nonpartisan CBO has stated that if we did ABSOLUTELY nothing, then the US economy would be coming out of this recession by the last quarter of 2009. Rather then spending 787 billion dollars on crap and another 600 billion dollars on interest payments on the loan for that crap, how about giving $2500 to each and every American citizen for the same 787 billion and see what a boost to the economy that would be.
Matticus, Republicans have done nothing in the past 8 years of congress and executive control. Pelosi and Reid became the Congressional leaders after the 2006 election(their first terms started on Jan 4, 2007), so the last 2 years has been a Republican President and Democratic Congress.
Sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
WE knew this would happen, but no appropriate precautionary steps were taken.
The Democrats knew about the mess and nobody did anything about it? The Bush Administration complained about the problems with Fannie and Freddie for 8 years and CONGRESS(both parties) did nothing about it.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
Another thing, Republicans feel so insecure and desperate that they have to constantly blame others. Whats ironic is, they expect no countability or to be held responsible in anyway after they've had complete control of America for 8 years. Not a law, or bill was passed that didn't satisfy the Republicans.
First, again, you wrongly state that the Republicans had complete control of America for 8 years, as shown above, that is completely false. Second, you obviously have no idea how the US Government works. The Senate has rules that 40 Senators can filibuster any bill which leads to the death of bills that the MINORITY party disagrees with and forces the MAJORITY party to compromise with the minority to get a bill passed. If the MINORITY party isn't satisfied with a bill, then they won't compromise and the bill gets killed. The only way that the MAJORITY party can rule without the consent of the minority is if they have a filibuster proof majority, as the Dems have today, so unlike what you have said, they were never fully satisfied.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
Republicans resort to blaming Democrats for having 1 year of control in congress, or the Liberals or even Clinton for our problems.
Again, your statement that Dems have only had control for 1 year is completely inaccurate, they have been in control of both Houses of Congress since Jan 4, 2007.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
I think its funny that Republicans complain about Socialism and how they don't want it, but they want the government to fix our economic problems in a NON PORKULUS FASHION.. That right there is SOCIALISM, AND THAT RIGHT THERE IS A DOUBLE STANDARD AND OXYMORON.
Taxation, according to ANY economist, is a burden and mover on the free market economy. Republicans wishing to lower taxes and give the people more of their own money is not Socialism in any matter and just by your rant and YOUR USE OF CAPITALS does not make it Socialism.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
During the Clinton administration we had a flourishing economy. He apparently made bad decisions according to Republicans, but why didn't the Republican administration fix it? That is the duty of our president is to fix past failures, and yet they didn't.
Again, you are proving that you know nothing about how the US Government works. The President(Clinton, Bush, Reagan, Lincoln) has nothing to do with the economy, the Economy in a free market system is run by the people and the people's representatives(in other words, the Congress).
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
And talking about pork, yes Bush purposed as much pork or even more pork than Democrats did with the stimulus.
BUSH proposed pork or the Republicans in Congress proposed Pork? The fact that during Republican control of Congress that Republicans had 60% -40% advantage in pork and now that Democrats are in control of Congress that it is 60%-40% advantage in pork DOES NOT MEAN that the pork is a good thing for America in the near or long term. Two wrongs do not make it right, spending is fine if you can afford it, pork spending when you are already broke is not.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
If McCain was in office, same thing would happen. A porkulus, except Democrats would be complaining because the pork isn't going to them or their state but Republicans instead.
That is theoretical and is only your opinion. The history of John McCain has been on the record, for years, against pork earmarks from BOTH parties and he has denounced them in this current bill.
Again, sorry about injecting facts into your partisan rant.
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Well, your common sense and your intellectual sense need to do some more research on the issues before you vote straight ticket democratic or republican because, as has been shown above, you are wrong on most of your supposed facts.
Stop the intellectual dishonesty of insulting people just because they disagree with you, debate the facts on the issue.
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