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To: Brumar89 who wrote (4971)	2/14/2009 10:59:35 AM
From: RetiredNow	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 86356

Brumar, take a look at the recovery package first, before you start buying Limbaugh's and Fox's attempts to paint it as $1 trillion of pork. First off, it is $787B. Second, the majority of the spending in there is an investment with a return. And it includes tax cuts that the GOP wanted. The vast majority of that package is investment spending. Here's an exercise for you. Why don't you pick out the amounts that you think are questionable and we can compare it to the total and see really how much pork is in there? That would be more rational than just resorting to the GOP spin tactics. At the end of the day, the GOP can spin to their hearts content, but in a year or two, we're going to know just how successful this recovery package was and we can judge accordingly. I for one will hold Obama at his word. I want to see 3 million jobs created or saved out of this. We'll know in two quarter whether the downward spiral was arrested and we'll know in 4 if a re-ignition of business spending has occurred, and we'll know in 2 years whether a recovery is underway. If all those things happen, then Obama was successful. If they did not, then we can judge him as well all go down the tubes.