[Ernest_at_the_Beach]

fyi

[DiogenesLaertius]

Giving Jimmy Carter a run for his money.

Still, I am scared, because in California, the democrats cemented power by using spending to make a powerful ruling majority of interest groups dependent on government even though it is slowly destroying the state.

If Obama is able to accomplish this for America, our country is done for.

[Uncle Miltie]

Everyone do the following:

1) Take $100 from your left pocket.
2) Burn $40.
3) Put $60 in your right pocket.

You’ve been Stimulated.

[Deo volente]

Cut capital gains taxes to zero, slash corporate income taxes, cut personal income taxes across the board, drastically cut entitlement spending, and take a chain saw to the federal budget.

Voila! Businesses recover, stock market soars, consumers hit the malls again, taxpayers get much needed relief, and the economy emerges from recession.

Of course, it’s a fantasy, and nothing more.

[Tzimisce]

Don’t worry: they’ll just raise taxes to make up for the loss. :)

[napscoordinator]

Sheesh what about President Bush’s 700 billion? We still have 350 billion left from what I heard. Can’t we at least spend this first before adding more?

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[Syncro]

Democrats' Stimulus Plan May Reach $700 Billion

Ha!

Two Trillion in Obama's first 100 Dayze

[rabscuttle385]

*Ping!*

[unspun]

insanity

That is not a stimulus plan. It is a depression plan.

[dr_who]

Woo hoo! 700 billion dollars of white elephants! That’ll fix us real good!

[ItsForTheChildren]

Here's a stimulus plan. Pay off everyone's credit cards.

The money still gets to the banks and with all that spanking new available we'll all just go out and spend, spend, spend.

Woohoo!

And who cares what costs? Just print more!

/sarc

[CutePuppy]

This is so unimaginative... Another stimulus, taking from one taxpayer’s pocket and putting some of it in another? And only $700B?

Been there, done that... so there is now no HOPE for CHANGE? It is now officially a SAME ole’ HOPELESS Obama administration.

Of course, when economy eventually recovers, no thanks to the government “stimulus”, they want to take credit for it claiming “decisive actions taken on Day 1 of administration”. And al-Media will go along with the “New Better Deal” meme.

[volslover]

You got to be kidding. . . This is too much. . . Bankruptcy court is far cheaper. . . and in bankruptcy court everything has to be transparent and everything is up for review

[Wolfie]

Hey, if it’s good enough for Wall Street...

[thelastvirgil]

Why do politicians conjure up one complicated, doomed-to-fail proposal after another when a simple, permanent, elimination of the capital gains tax would have fixed more economic woes in a week than all these “stimulus” packages will ever do? My humble opinion is that the pols all firmly believe that we are all too stupid to figure out they are lining their and their friend's pockets on our backs. What a disgusting bunch of crooks we are saddled with, and it has always been so.

[Jeff Head]

OBAMA, THE STOCK MARKET, AND ENERGY

[ken21]

drudge now has $7.4 trillion up.

[pillut48]

From another article:"Nov. 24 (Bloomberg) -- The U.S. government is prepared to lend more than $7.4 trillion

on behalf of American taxpayers,

or half the value of everything produced in the nation last year, to rescue the financial system since the credit markets seized up 15 months ago."

WHEN DO I GET A VOTE ON ALL THESE FREE GIVEAWAYS?!?!?!?

This is just crazy!! And it's got to stop already!!! >:-(

[avacado]

"Facing an increasingly ominous economic outlook, President-elect Barack Obama and other Democrats are rapidly ratcheting up plans for a massive fiscal stimulus program that could total as much as $700 billion over the next two years. That amount, more than the nation has spent over the past six years in Iraq,..."

The Washington Post said all of that without using the word "Republicans?" It'a about damn time to hang this economic turkey around the necks of the Democrats.