Comments on: Questions About The Senate Stimulus Bill

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:27:40 +0000

If you haven’t heard of Joe the Plumber or Mitch McConnell, then very little of this post or this blog will probably make sense to you.

If it helps, you can always google both guys.

A news.google.com search for Joe the Plumber should help to clarify the reference in the post.

By: Lionel Edwards

Lionel Edwards — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 20:14:25 +0000

Mitch McConnell is not really a name I have heard of before. I am still, kind of, confused what he is going to do exactly as an analyst/plumber.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:56:40 +0000

The only stimulus America needs is a stimulus to the mind to wake up the common sense.

By: Sebastian

Sebastian — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 01:50:19 +0000

The government is too big. Too many people allowed to go on national media spilling their nonsense ideas and confusing the masses.Where did all those experts come from? They all seem to have a perfect solution for the problem. Stimulus is good … and 2 min later .. stimulus is bad , bla bla bla WTF?? Wake up people!

By: Nan

Nan — Sat, 07 Feb 2009 00:12:26 +0000

National Economic Disaster, means we need to build our military to rebuild our nation through wind, solar, and nuclear energy. Start building or redesigning our plants that we need to provide clean energy with the resources we have!

By: sarabeth

sarabeth — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:35:51 +0000

Re 13, I didn’t say “every family in America” or “every family in America + unmarried tax-payers with no dependents”. I said “every person in the U.S.”.

And if you click on that “would only be $300 billion” link, you might be able to straighten out your billions and trillions, and get the point of that question.

By: Matt

Matt — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:28:50 +0000

It would seem that our Republican senators and congressmen were/are more worried about saving Iraq than saving America.

By: Jimmy

Jimmy — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:26:53 +0000

My party (The Republican Party) caused this problem over the last 8 years and with congressial control for 6 of these years. These same policies on the economy and their full support of the president programs led us to were are today. the American people have decided they want something different. Let the president try a different policies to stinulus the country. If do not, in 4 years he can point to Republicans as blocking change and gain more congressal seat and the office agian. And there will be NO REPULICAN PARTY. Lets not follow McCain and the other Congressman who caused the problem to begin with.

By: grammarsoft

grammarsoft — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:23:17 +0000

My greatest concern is corporations using the bailout monies to acquire other small companies in order to gain share holder values and then conduct layoffs on employees that had there company acquired. Such is the case when Pfizer acquired Wyeth. 20,000 employees cut and all with taxpayers money. Stimulus bill you at least chunkier portions should go towards families with healthy credit because this would indicate ‘conscious’ spending and help them in avoiding foreclosures.

By: JohnRJ08

JohnRJ08 — Fri, 06 Feb 2009 17:16:57 +0000

Actually, if the government gave every family in America $1 million, it would be considerably less than $200 billion because there’s a lot less than 150 million families out there. Even if you also gave $1 million to unmarried tax-payers with no dependents, the sum would still be less than $200 billion. Not a bad idea, if you think about it. Most people would probably pay off their mortgages and credit card debt, and have money left over to invest and buy things. Lenders would be awash in cash, and the real estate market would explode. Then the government would still have a couple of hundred billion to use on infrastructure projects, etc. Anyway, it’s fun to think about, but it’s not going to happen.