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To: Road Walker who wrote (455160)	2/9/2009 10:10:44 AM
From: longnshort	Respond to of 1573822

who would flip their million dollar house for 15,000 ? Krugman is a partisan moron

To: Road Walker who wrote (455160)	2/9/2009 10:24:54 AM
From: i-node	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573822

> Krugman ain't eating the post-partisan soup.... He's a communist. He wanted to insure that America was destroyed with a single piece of legislation.

To: Road Walker who wrote (455160)	2/9/2009 10:45:30 AM
From: michael97123	Respond to of 1573822

Actually that was my first response to the compromise as well when i saw what was being removed from the bill. I said months ago that on stimulus i was a radical looking for out of the box solutions from both sides. So what did we get---from the dems too much pork and from the reps too much reliance on tax cuts in this demand side decession we are in. And then to get votes needed in the senate, two core things get removed (state aid and school construction) Both are stimulative as one prevents layoffs and the others is instant construction jobs spread around the nation. What do i want now? House should put this back in but look to cut out pork and some of the least effective tax cuts. Then put it to a vote in congress and let republicans in the senate dare to filibuster there.

To: Road Walker who wrote (455160)	2/9/2009 7:48:29 PM
From: tejek	1 Recommendation Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 1573822

What do you call someone who eliminates hundreds of thousands of American jobs, deprives millions of adequate health care and nutrition, undermines schools, but offers a $15,000 bonus to affluent people who flip their houses? A proud centrist. For that is what the senators who ended up calling the tune on the stimulus bill just accomplished. Even if the original Obama plan — around $800 billion in stimulus, with a substantial fraction of that total given over to ineffective tax cuts — had been enacted, it wouldn’t have been enough to fill the looming hole in the U.S. economy, which the Congressional Budget Office estimates will amount to $2.9 trillion over the next three years. Yet the centrists did their best to make the plan weaker and worse. Whether they're 'moderates' or extremists, wingers typically aren't very nice.