Posted on 03/11/2009 11:34:11 PM PDT by Fred
The first so-called “stimulus” package cost each American family about $18,000. But the Democrats aren’t done. After a conference with economists yesterday, Speaker Pelosi indicated she’d be open to a second spending spree in an amount to be determined.
Republicans – incorrectly being blamed for having no alternatives – are again proposing legislation that (a) would stimulate the economy and (b) not cost the taxpayers a dime.
An increase in GDP and creating more than 2 million long term, sustainable jobs without spending trillions of dollars sounds impossible during an administration that spends money like a teenage girl. According to several House and Senate sources, this is exactly what Senator Vitter R-LA and Congressman Shadegg R-AZ propose in their No Cost Stimulus Act of 2009.
The bill proposes opening off-shore drilling and Arctic National Wildlife Refuge (ANWR) zones by not only lifting moratoriums, but mandating the government to move forward with their lease programs on the land. As stated in section 203 of the bill specifically, it is required that the first lease sale occur within 22 months after enactment of this bill.
HUMAN EVENTS will be there to cover the announcement of the bill later today.
Too much Government intrusion on domestic buisnesses, or too little.
Well, there is one thing that you can be sure of insofar as The new administration domestic energy policy is concerned, Our new government would rather “Spend, and Send Trillions”, to nations that don’t like us.
To ensure an “Equity” that has so far, never been truly identified, for a purpose likewise.
We the people of the US sit on national resources in the Contiguous CONUS that will last for hundreds of years. And we still got more, DO not belive that CO2 is a polutant, elstwise kill ‘yerself. Are you, as a person that stupid?
I only ask the question: Where is the Goddam political will?
Open the Grand Staircase-Escalante National Monument for its trillion tons of clean coal.
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There is LOTS of Political Will in Washington. It is the classic Will to Power and it is brimming over and flexing muscles.
More info on the bill:
No Cost Stimulus Expands Energy Supply and Creates Jobs http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2204725/posts
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