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[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

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Doing things

[neonleonb.livejournal.com]

Wait, you're upset that the government is going to stimulate the money by hiring people to do things? What would you prefer--that it just hands money to people and prays they do something useful with it? Or would you prefer to ignore the problem entirely?

Re: Doing things

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

They would prefer to do nothing but give more tax cuts to the wealthiest 1%.

Re: Doing things

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

I'd prefer to cut all sorts of government handouts, cut government, cut government waste, and have a focused spending bill.

Re: Doing things

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Well, they were paying 50% of the taxes, last I checked. Probably more at this point.

Re: Doing things

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

So you don;t mind all the pork and payoffs and waste that's in the bill?

Tell me, did you get upset when Merrill Lynch paid $1.2 million to renovate offices?

Re: Doing things

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

By having the public sector hire huge swaths of the population for construction projects? If there are no subsequent gains in the private sector to accomodate all those pay checks, the first thing those workers are going to build is an express railway to Inflation City. Driving up demand at a time when supply is getting screwed over is rarely a good idea (unless you're in a war, but that's a bad idea in itself). It certainly wasn't in the 1970s.

Re: Doing things

[tbonestg.livejournal.com]

Not much of a stimulation. Government projects don't create jobs. They just pay someone to do something...and then they do it...and then the work ends, the jobs dry up and you're back where you started.

[i.livejournal.com]

ok. i read everything on his ears. with the exception of ACORN, which i am sure is not in the stimulus package, i have no problem with any of it. it is all spending. that's what you do to stimulate the economy. you spend. of course you'd rather spend money on iraq's infrastructure and schools like your pal bush did and mccain would have, but that's because you're an idiot.

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Incredibly, the Democrats’ bill makes groups like ACORN eligible for a $4.19 billion pot of money for “neighborhood stabilization activities.” Funds for this purpose were authorized in the Housing and Economic Recovery Act, signed into law in 2008. However, these funds were limited to state and local governments. Now House Democrats are taking the unprecedented step of making ACORN and other groups eligible for these funds:


“For a further additional amount for ‘Community Development Fund,’ $4,190,000,000, to be used for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes as authorized under division B, title III of the Housing and Economic Recovery Act of 2008 (Public Law 110–289), of which—

“(1) not less than $3,440,000,000 shall be allocated by a competition for which eligible entities shall be States, units of general local government, and nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities[.]”

“(2) up to $750,000,000 shall be awarded by competition to nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities to provide community stabilization assistance […]”

[xforge.livejournal.com]

This. Iraqis have health care that's funded by US taxpayers. Why don't US taxpayers have health care that's funded by US taxpayers?

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Iif you had read any of my comments you would know what I want to spend the money on. But reading isn't your strong point becuase you're an idiot.

[edgar-suit.livejournal.com]

I hate pork! Pork is bad.

But... don't cut my state's project! We need that money!

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

"The ice storm broke my state's power grid and Obama's not hellllping!"

Fuckin' welfare queens.

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

A good reason why additional government programs and agencies should not be created without great thought about the long term. Once those interests are in, it can be hard to get them back out, even when they have outlived any usefulness they might have had.

[xforge.livejournal.com]

Pfft. Let he who has not supported a bill full of pork cast the first aspersion. (Hint: You'll find **no one.**)

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

So even though you are married and I'm seeing someone, you wanna get e-married for this comment? ;-)

lol noob

[squidb0i.livejournal.com]

Every brick, tree, toilet, railing, piece of equipment etc is made and/or maintained by a company that has employees, usually using parts made by other companies, with employees. Every item has to be transported by companies that have employees, maintain vehicles, etc.

The money doesn't just evaporate. It is spent and spent and spent again, often in ways that increase the value of the initial expenditure.

Re: lol noob

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

And how much of the money is going to waste?

[rawbery79.livejournal.com]

WHOA, WHOA, WHOA, WHOA.

PELL GRANTS ARE NOT EARMARKS.

[vivianc1968.livejournal.com]

Pell Grants are also not stimulus.

[dwer.livejournal.com]

you understand what pork and earmarks are, right?

What?

You don't?

[jlc20thmaine.livejournal.com]

Yes, I do know what those mean. Since you back this spendulus bill it's apparent that you don't though.

[mylaptopisevil.livejournal.com]

i think we should give everyone big bags of money.

that way no one is working and in their confused daze, they spend it all on products that are created overseas.

[jblaque.livejournal.com]

"i think we should give everyone big bags of money."

And call we can call it a "tax cut"!

[terminator44.livejournal.com]

Hell yeah! Free money for everybody, especially our domestic industries so they can go right on being non-competitive.