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To: Bread Upon The Water who wrote (210971)	6/14/2011 11:34:25 AM
From: Wharf Rat	Read Replies (2) \| Respond to of 361100

"What else do you want him to do?" Forget "rational reasoned". We need sound reasonable policies, not policies that sound reasonable and rational. If $750B stim sounded reasonable (a big if for 40% of the op), twice that would have been a reasonable policy that had a chance of working, as long as the tax cuts were omitted, and the money wasn't wasted on more roads. As it is, the reasonable sounding thing just ran out of gas. A reasonable policy would have a CCC and a WPA instead of tax cuts, which are the least cost-effective way of stimulating the economy. Extending tax cuts for the rich sounds reasonable, but now we are cutting help for the least of us to pay for it, which isn't. A reasonable policy would have been to let all cuts expire, veto anything which came to him which included tax cuts for the rich. Oddly enuf, the American people would have backed him. Rational reasoned is "Give me any sort of a health care bill I can sign." A sound and reasoned policy, which had the support of the people, is single payer or Medicare E or at least public option.