>>>>>>I think it's a good faith attempt to address our economic crisis.
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>>>>>>I might believe that if it weren't for all the pork...
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>>>>>What concerns me is that he is doing exactly what he stated back in December need to stop:
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>>>>>http://www.cnn.com/2008/POLITICS/12/07/obama.economy/index.html
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>>>>>and this:
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>>>>>http://www.foxnews.com/politics/first100days/2009/01/27/republican-leaders-raise-concerns-acorn-stimulus-dollars/
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>>>>>For what it's worth, 11 Democrats (one is a congressman in my state) - in addition to the Repubs - strongly objected to the package.
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>>>>>Still, there are good pieces in the package and I'm not sure that we should throw the baby out with the bathwater. As I wrote to Mike earlier, there is always give and take and no one will be completely happy with the package. On balance, are there more good pieces than bad?
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>>>>No. There aren't.
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>>>>You don't spend your way out of debt.
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>>>>I don't spend other people's way out of their debt. The fact that people, corporations, and the government were stupid or ignorant and destroyed themselves is not my responsibility.
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>>>>This country was founded on freedom. Freedom to be stupid/irresponsible/ignorant if you want. It does not mean that other people have to bail those people out.
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>>>>In the last few months the government has effectively thrown away more of my money than I have earned in the same time. I will have to pay that money back in increased taxes (yeah - lets see the 95% of the people get tax breaks) for many years. I will also be paying for the deadbeats/cheats/etc who will never pay anything (they'll get free money out of it - watch).
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>>>>So far, the government has no clue if or when this will do anything for the country, or what the result will be other than massively higher debt.
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>>>>So far, this country has hemorrhaged close to 2 trillion dollars w/o controls or plan in less than 3 months. We haven't bailed out the airlines, auto industry, insurance companies, construction industry, or any of the hundreds of industries that will have their hands out THIS SPRING.
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>>>>Democrats control all three branches of government. There is no way to stop it short of revolution (which I'm all for at this point).
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>>>>There is nothing good in this for the people who will have to pay for it.
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>>>With all due respect, you do not understand economics. Government deficit spending can indeed be the correct course of action. It's not the same as you or me trying to spend our way out of debt. Just look what happened in the 1940s. Despite everything FDR had tried in his 8 years in office, the economy was still in the doldrums. Then a wonderful thing happened: Pearl Harbor was bombed. Factories were suddenly going full tilt producing war materials. Unemployment dropped to 1 or 2%. We began a decades-long period of prosperity. (And just to show how grateful we were, we rebuilt Japan and Germany).
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>>>PS -- The judicial branch is hardly under Democratic control. It will be dominated by conservatives for a long time to come.
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>>Oh please. This is a pretty balanced supreme court.
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>>It is popularly accepted that Chief Justice Roberts and Justices Scalia, Thomas, and Alito compose the Court's conservative wing. Justices Stevens, Souter, Ginsburg and Breyer are generally thought of as the Court's liberal wing. Justice Kennedy, generally thought of as a conservative who "occasionally vote[s] with the liberals", is considered most likely to be the swing vote that determines the outcome of certain close cases.
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>>from wikipedia. If it was overly conservative, a LOT of stuff would be different (like Roe V Wade)...
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>I did not mean just the Supreme Court. The appellate courts and district courts are full of Bush appointees, many of them relatively young.

Well I will agree with that. it is probably close to 60/40...