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Politics : Liberalism: Do You Agree We've Had Enough of It? -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (89285)	8/15/2010 12:02:42 PM
From: longnshort	2 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

bull, it's a slush fund for Obama's voters. Like giving the teachers union 26 billion

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (89285)	8/15/2010 12:03:35 PM
From: tonto	3 Recommendations Respond to of 224749

Kenneth, you must start to pay attention. They have done a terrible job with the stimulus spending.

To: Kenneth E. Phillipps who wrote (89285)	8/15/2010 10:20:14 PM
From: Hope Praytochange	Respond to of 224749

Paul Lindsay, spokesman for the House Republican Campaign Committee, says Republicans plan to counterpunch. "Democrats promised that their so-called 'stimulus' would keep unemployment below 8%, yet it has risen well above that," he says. "Now, after spending $1 trillion to expand the size of government, states like Indiana and Michigan are still suffering from double-digit unemployment." The unemployment picture suggests that Indiana, Ohio, Michigan, California and even Rhode Island have competitive races in districts that just two years ago seemed to be safely Democratic, according to political prognosticators such as the Cook Report. In Rhode Island, the Congressional seat being vacated by Patrick Kennedy has been in Democratic hands for all but six years since 1941. While four Democrats are still vying for a place on the September ballot, the leading Republican candidate is hammering the state's 12% unemployment rate. Professor Leonard Lardaro, an economist at the University of Rhode Island in Kingston, says the state is angry at its incumbents, although he stopped short of predicting a Republican win. "The question for Rhode Island is how mad are people going to be in November?" By a variety of measures, times are hard in south central Michigan. The Food Bank of South Central Michigan, which supplies 285 charities in eight counties, is facing a growing demand for its services. "This is far worse in the respect that it's people who never expected to show up at a pantry," says executive director, Bob Randels. People who once sat on the food bank board of directors are now clients, he says. Even two of the more stable places to work, Albion College and the Albion Public School System, have cut positions this year. The November election is a rematch of the 2008 contest. Tim Walberg, the former nondenominational minister and incumbent who lost to Mr. Schauer in 2008 by a narrow margin, is this time zeroing in on unemployment. In an interview, he said economic growth must be measured by "people having jobs." At town hall meetings and public events he argues that Democrats haven't generated jobs in the district and are inhibiting manufacturers from competing against foreign interests by strangling them with regulation. Mr. Walberg said the Republican strategy of holding up the extension of unemployment benefits was risky, but believes that voters understand that "stop-gap measures" being pushed by Democrats only "prolong the pain." To Mr. Schauer, the first Democrat to hold the traditionally Republican seat in 16 years, "job creation is priorities one through 10."