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To: Road Walker who wrote (5162)	2/22/2009 9:52:07 AM
From: RetiredNow	1 Recommendation Respond to of 86355

I know. That's the real question, though. Will the recovery package work? I'm pretty sure it's better to do something rather than nothing, but even doing something, there's no guarantee. I think a more perfect package would have been with less welfare and more investments in renewable energy and other new tech industries that would create jobs for the long term. I understand the compassion that leads to us wanting to give more money in unemployment insurance, food stamps and other welfare, but I don't think those things really help us dig out of this hole. But the $50B in renewable energy investments will have a long term return. We should have made that $300B and we should have had more tax cuts for businesses, like a payroll tax holiday. That would have saved more jobs and created more new ones. Anyway, like I said, doing something is better than the GOP plan of doing nothing.