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Senate Under Pressure To OK Economic Package To Get Tax Rebates To Workers In May
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- Bush, Pelosi, etc. can take my meager, little check and "stuff it where the sun don''t shine!"
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- Get off your butt and pull yourself up. Heres a news bulletin: ITS your job to take care of yourself, not the goverment and my tax money.
Posted by dogband at 04:13 PM : Jan 25, 2008
Let''s use that same philosophy on welfare recipients. How about the disabled?
Yeah, it''s their job to take care of themselves...you are an arse. - Reply to this comment
- Features of the "stimulus" package:
*Raising the limit on Federal Housing Administration loans from $362,000 to $725,000.
*Boosting the cap on loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy from $417,000 to $725,000.
Bet ya can''t guess what the median housing price is in Nancy Pelosi''s district, can you?
Hint: $656,700
But no food stamp boost for the poor, no heating subsidies for the poor (c''mon, just how cold does it get in San Francisco, anyway)...
Sigh... - Reply to this comment
- How many brand new Democratic Senators we are going to get in November? 8 or 12?
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- Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 05:40 PM : Jan 25, 2008
Bravo!
Like the Hokey Pokey, what you said is what it''s all about :) - Reply to this comment
- Hay parrot2,
Good point: If was not for Nancy Pelosi, there would be no Tax Rebate for Americans, just a Tax Cut for businesses. The only reason the tax cut is still pending is because it is too much more borrowing. - Reply to this comment
- Hay jerr11,
Awesome point: Mess up the country with 2 un-subtained wars and blame it on the next president.
And the idiot Americans will surely believe the NeoConservatives after Bush leaves office. - Reply to this comment
- Folks,
It is a pleasure to read so many NeoConservatives criticize the Democrats especially now after they have nothing even moderately good to say about their records/policies in the last couple of years.
Just to remind my reading audience, NeoConservatives, with their 2001 and 2003 Tax Cuts for the super riches, have given us the following benefits:
1) A 4.1 and counting Inflation Rate
2) A deep and counting recession
3) A 10 Trillions and counting Federal Debt.
4) A 5.0 and counting unemployment rate.
5) 2 un-subtained and counting wars.
6) A housing and counting meltdown
7) Record Corporation and counting Profits
8) Outsourced and counting millions of high paying professional jobs, we need and want, to oversea countries.
9) 48 millions and counting Americans without health insurance.
10) Almost last and counting failing grades from our education system compared to other much poorer countries.
11) The biggest embarrassing LIE since the birth of civilization with the story of the Weapons of Mass Destruction in Iraq.
12) The highest disrespect and counting around the world, even our closest allies will not send one more troop into Iraq and Afghanistan.
Why didn''t the NeoConservatives given us the 4th Great Depression so to destroy this American Empire once and for all. Maybe they forgot to make their Tax Cuts permanent when they controlled the congress beside the white house.
Congratulations NeoConservatives! Finally, "Mission Accomplished" - Reply to this comment
- We''ve been doing this stimulus package for a year now in Iraq.
Ask the sunni warlords. They''re all flushed with cash - US taxpayers cash.
That''s Gen Betrayus splurge strategy, IF YOU CAN"T BEAT THEM, PAY THEM.
Seems to be working. John McCain''s very proud of the "splurge," said it''s working, and of course it''s working. Who doesn''t want free cash.
Bush''s Iraq strategy:
Keep paying them greedy blackmailing warlords till January 2009, and then, blame the ensuing mayhem on the next president!
Brilliant! - Reply to this comment
- This is a paid commercial:
If you vote for me, I will give you a tax cut. Do not worry about your country. Believe me, I am not buying your vote. Come''''on, muncho $$$ into your pocket. Last opportunity to take advantage of this great special offer :-) - Reply to this comment
- I''''d a whole lot rather see the economy stimulated by good jobs instead of a tax rebate we''''ll have to pay back next year.
The whole freaking bunch in Washington are USELESS!
Posted by RowdyTexan2 at 05:40 PM : Jan 25, 2008
RIGHT ON BROTHER!!!!
VERY WELL SAID!!! - Reply to this comment
- You''re right about the jobs, Rowdy...this "stimulus" package is just putting air into a tire that still has nails in it.
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- Exactly - this is a F''''d up bipartisan plan - no one single party is to blame.
Posted by hungry1968 at 05:39 PM : Jan 25, 2008
You overlook the big hammer that Bush has; the Democrats are constrained to work within the parameters that he will NOT veto.
In the final analysis, Bush bears the most responsibility for the final outcome of both the "stimulus" package and the reason it is needed.
It still doesn''t let Pelosi off the hook for being so eager to avoid accusations of "It was too late to work because Pelosi stalled the bill!", but what do you expect. - Reply to this comment
- To address the mortgage crisis, the package raises the limit on Federal Housing Administration loans from $362,790 to as high as $729,750 in expensive areas, allowing more subprime mortgage holders to refinance into federally insured loans. To widen the availability of mortgages across the country, it also provides a one-year boost to the cap on loans that Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac can buy, from $417,000 up to $729,750 in high-cost markets.
Oh, so they want to allow more of the rich to buy new homes? Who the hell could afford a $729,750 home...especially if they have no job?
The easy way to take care of this crisis is to bring manufacturing back into the US and create jobs and put people to work so we can buy more Chinese krap and keep them happy so they won''t call in our debt!
Why don''t we get busy and build some electric cars, some solar panels for heating, put up wind turbines for every neighborhood. Then we can pile up all these oil dependent gas guzzlers and trade them to China for scrap and relieve some of that debt?
I''d a whole lot rather see the economy stimulated by good jobs instead of a tax rebate we''ll have to pay back next year.
The whole freaking bunch in Washington are USELESS! - Reply to this comment
- ...but our social security and pensions DO NOT cover both food and medical needs. We are constantly making choices between the two and oh, how such a check would help. Again, SHAME ON YOU ALL WHO CAME UP WITH THIS JOKE.
Posted by goodgravy73 at 05:31 PM : Jan 25, 2008
Ahhh, but a goodly portion of your income comes from "entitlement spending".
To Bush and "the right", that makes you subhuman. - Reply to this comment
- SHAME ON WHOEVER CAME UP WITH THIS REBATE PROGRAM!!! You ALWAYS leave out the people who could truly use such a stimulus...we are no longer working but our social security and pensions DO NOT cover both food and medical needs. We are constantly making choices between the two and oh, how such a check would help. Again, SHAME ON YOU ALL WHO CAME UP WITH THIS JOKE.
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- hell i think you all should go to church
Posted by redneck423 at 05:10 PM : Jan 25, 2008
How is this problem solved by going to church?
Are we all supposed to pass around collection plates like beggars? - Reply to this comment
- More tax cuts/rebates and you''''re pissed?
No wonder you''''re DEMOTOOLS!!!
Posted by badaxmofo at 05:16 PM : Jan 25, 2008
What the hell good is a $600 tax rebate if I have to spend $1200 fixing my car because there is no Federal money to fix the pond-sized potholes in the eff''n highways? - Reply to this comment
- I hate to say it, but has anyone in Congress even read through the Bill to see what or if something BAD has been snuck into it? Which of our rights are we gonna lose this time for 1,200 measly dollars? Can''t imagine that not happening anymore. These 9th. Amendment breaking lawmakers have got the whole nation spooked up good.
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- You IDIOTS!
More tax cuts/rebates and you''''re pissed?
No wonder you''''re DEMOTOOLS!!!
Posted by badaxmofo at 05:16 PM : Jan 25, 2008
So you apparently think that plunging the nation even further into debt, for the hope that a fiscal gimmick is going to work, is a good plan?
How much do you think the economy is going to be boosted when everyone that is behind on their credit cards, mortgages, etc, pays those bills instead of buying new products -- you know the way this trick is supposed to work to boost the economy?
Estimates are 70% of the people are going to use it to pay off current debt or to save it. How does that help our economy? - Reply to this comment
