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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: JohnM who wrote (103547)2/9/2009 10:43:14 AM
From: Steve Lokness  Read Replies (1) of 542009
 
John;

I know education spending is important to you. For now (this might change) I think the Senate Bill takes out 25 billion spending for higher education and school building spending. Seems that when the centrist in the Senate wanted to come on board but wanted a smaller bill, that Reid came back and said okay we take the education spending out. This according to discussion this morning on CSPAN.

This is the ugliness of politics - and it was why I was pissed at the democrats for putting into the stimulus bill such things as unemployment, food stamps and family planning. Since much of the middle doesn't care about the welfare stuff, republicans were able to grab the headlines and the rest is history as they say. Guy on CSPAN said the bill was now up to 40% tax cuts or tax rebates!

Now the public is confused and good spending on jobs (professors and builders of schools) are lost in the complexity of the bill. Obama messed that up. He should have came out with a strait message that the country could understand; that should have been jobs? But because he didn't, the democrats in over reaching and throwing in the kitchen sink messed up the message and now it is all garbled. The stimulus plan belongs to them and I'm saddened by that. Obama has an ugly mess to try to get us out of - he shouldn't have to be fighting democrats right now.

steve
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