Senate passes 800 billion dollar stimulus without 1 member readind the actual bill!!!

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

42 this is the answer

I feel better now, thanks

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

Well I know it is really hard to imagine, but the largest economy that also triggered the global recession is actually of interest to the international community.
I know....tough to figure out.

that is a round robin answer, it shows that other countries depend on us to buy their goods. Funny part also countries that invest here should also demand certain people not turn their backs to a KNOWN problem over a few hundred grand of campaign money. Chris Dodd is basically nailed to a cross then he has his other "buddies" that are soon to follow. Why do you think the head of the senate banking committee is keeping a low profile in a time of finacial need? The same jackasses who neglected the problem in 2003 and 2005 run the ship and they do so with protection of the DNC... //content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif How many dems on the cabnet have tax issues? corruption issues? what about congressmen with tax issues? congressmen with coruption issues?//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/laugh.gif.48439b2acf2cfca21620f01e7f77d1e4.gif

 

[brendan_121212]

Remember the saying: "Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics..."

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

Remember the saying: "Arguing on the Internet is like the Special Olympics..."

what the hell does that mean. My son is special needs!

 

[Rashaddd 5,000+ posts]

There was one place where some scratched out 100 million dollars with an ink pen and re-wrote 150 million.Not to mention numerous other scratch outs and things like 10 million to "science".

That's it. science.

Democrats are about to get rich at the expense of our children.

The republicans already had their turn, quit complaining

 

[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

The republicans already had their turn, quit complaining

yep this is turning out much better

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

yep this is turning out much better

LOL the liberal media won't even report on Dodd it is utterly hilarious. That same liberal media called Dodd a genius during the tarp 2 months after Dodd was to produce his mortgage papers...6 months since the order NO papers. As soon as he produces them he is gone! What is more pathetic is he is not busted for turning his back to the issues, rather just getting a few sweetheart mortgages.....

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

LOL the liberal media won't even report on Dodd it is utterly hilarious. That same liberal media called Dodd a genius during the tarp 2 months after Dodd was to produce his mortgage papers...6 months since the order NO papers. As soon as he produces them he is gone! What is more pathetic is he is not busted for turning his back to the issues, rather just getting a few sweetheart mortgages.....

there are a whole slew of democrats who got sweet mortgages. even obama had a shady deal through countrywide. the people running things, are the ones who caused the housing bubble. i like how everyone forgets that the dems called for less regulation, citing that lenders were discriminating against the poor. they all bashed the republicans for not wanting to give poor people mortgages, then when it falls apart, blame the republicans for de-regulating to give loans to poor people

 

[audiolife 5,000+ posts]

there are a whole slew of democrats who got sweet mortgages. even obama had a shady deal through countrywide. the people running things, are the ones who caused the housing bubble. i like how everyone forgets that the dems called for less regulation, citing that lenders were discriminating against the poor. they all bashed the republicans for not wanting to give poor people mortgages, then when it falls apart, blame the republicans for de-regulating to give loans to poor people

95 out of 100 senators voted for it (many democrats) and much of the house democrats voted for it as well. In a democratic world I guess they are not responsible for the ways that they vote???//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif It was a democratic president who signed it in!.

 

[Annnarbor84 5,000+ posts]

except this is costing us a trillion dollars!

It would only be costing us if we actually had the money. This is just paper being printed at this point. Maybe our US dollar can someday resemble the Russians

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

95 out of 100 senators voted for it (many democrats) and much of the house democrats voted for it as well. In a democratic world I guess they are not responsible for the ways that they vote???//content.invisioncic.com/y282845/emoticons/confused.gif.e820e0216602db4765798ac39d28caa9.gif It was a democratic president who signed it in!.

politicians are only responsible if they succeed. it's not just a political problem, it's a society problem. there isn't alot of personal responsibility left in america period. our government is only a reflection of our culture. this is why we are doomed for collapse. i also believe that our financial system has become too complicated to understand, even for the economists who study it. everyting connects to each other in our economy on numerous levels. and that is connected to a world economy on even more levels. housing is tied to credit cards, mutual funds, hedge funds, foreign banks, etc., etc. wall street is affected simply on emotion, which is a different debate. our politicians make things worse by railing on and on about how this is a disaster. doom and gloom affects our economy, and the dems are playing that card to push an agenda. scare everyone into believing that the government is the only one who can save us. and they've succeeded.

 

[azimuth 5,000+ posts]

It would only be costing us if we actually had the money. This is just paper being printed at this point. Maybe our US dollar can someday resemble the Russians

agreed. when it costs 1000$ to buy a loaf of bread, we'll understand what we've done. we'll then have to start a war to save our economy.

 

[LordHumongous]

The republicans already had their turn, quit complaining

That does not make this alright, and I'm pretty sure this one has quite a bit more pork also.

Still the most troubling fact is that Obama lied to the public about how we were going to put this package together.

 

[Pl8er 5,000+ posts]

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[kmanian 5,000+ posts]

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the great thing about doing this on the internet is you readily get conversation outside of your personal region and demographic, which truly lends itself to a better debate