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Jan 29, 2009 20:01

Obama's stimulus plan passed the house, without a single Republican voting yes.

Beautiful.

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zamiel January 30 2009, 01:09:13 UTC
They can successfully avoid the blame for the resulting catamite catastrophy, and good for them. Talk about a nightmare piece of legislation.

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monkeymodulator January 30 2009, 01:59:41 UTC
Yeah, like the $750 billion bailout, there are a lot of issues with it. But it's got network neutrality, along with a lot of investment in education.

What's your major complaint about it?

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zamiel January 30 2009, 03:06:42 UTC
The nearly $1tril of money going all over the place, not to anything reasonable as solutions go, people like ACORN and other folks who need that money less than, say ... well, almost anyone else, increasing socialization of businesses ...

Is there anything GOOD in it?

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monkeymodulator January 30 2009, 04:38:33 UTC
Yeah, I'm primarily a civil-libertarian. I still don't trust Obama on FISA and other privacy issues. But when it comes to public infrastructure and education, I think the government should have a large role.

A lot of the investments make sense to me. Not all of them obviously, but the basic ideas. For example, funding scientific research. How many technological revolutions from the US were created because of federal funding?

The tone of this post is pretty divisive, with the "douchebags" tag and all. It wasn't meant to be an attack on any readers here, but reading it now, I see that it was.

This vote was a show of force by the Republican party, an attempt to show President Obama that now he needs to play their game. And they failed.

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shawboy January 30 2009, 06:22:20 UTC
The only problem with this is that I don't want things to be like when Bush was first in office and the Republicans voted in anything he wanted; I don't want 1 party ruling everything.

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viciousladybug January 30 2009, 14:49:13 UTC
Being unemployed for 3 years makes it very hard for me to pay attention to anything in the media these days, much less trust anyone but I do know this, if all the Republicans and 10 Dems are against it, there must be something good in it!

It seems like there is a lot of crying going on right now from the upper middle class that is wholly fear-based. Everybody wants the good life but nobody wants to pay for it. That's just it, isn't it? We can't feed the homeless because I need a triple mocha frappe every day this week! I'm not trying to be facetious, but your douchebags comment was dead on. You don't have to take that back.

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