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Friday, January 30, 2009

Republicans voting against the "stimulus" means they don't care!

My, aren't those Congressional Republicans irresponsible, voting against the trillion-dollar-plus "stimulus" package. At least, that's what liberals are saying about it.

About...this:

Only ten per cent of the “stimulus” to be spent on 2009.

Close to half goes to entities that sponsor or employ or both members of the Service Employees International Union, federal, state, and municipal employee unions, or other Democrat-controlled unions.

This bill is sent to Congress after Obama has been in office for seven days. It is 680 pages long. According to my calculations, not one member of Congress read the entire bill before this vote. Obviously, it would have been impossible, given his schedule, for President Obama to have read the entire bill.

For the amount spent we could have given every unemployed person in the United States roughly $75,000.

We could give every person who had lost a job and is now passing through long-term unemployment of six months or longer roughly $300,000.
Yeah. Voting no was a travesty.