Live Thread: Senate Porkulus Vote

[NoGrayZone]

I didn't see a live thread and I just can't watch this debacle alone.

Meagan Kelly on Fox said the FBC filed a lawsuit under the freedom of information act to find out where this "lost" 78 billion dollars went from the first "bailout".

Things are getting a tad bit too interesting for my taste!

[musicman]

"(a) In General- The Secretary of Health and Human Services shall invest in the infrastructure necessary to allow for and promote the electronic exchange and use of health information for each individual in the United States consistent with the goals outlined in the Strategic Plan developed by the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology."

[KansasGirl]

That’s exactly what I was thinking.

[penelopesire]

A TRILLION DOLLAR NEW TARP FOLKS!!

[jersey117]

SOCIALISM DOESN'T SELL HERE BARRY..... TAKE IT BACK TO KENYA. WE DON'T WANT IT!

[NoGrayZone]

I guess they don’t don’t like the ‘terms’ he is laying out.

What's there not to like about a government takeover??

[Cheerio]

Bread lines aren't really so bad. It's a great opportunity to socialize with others you may have never gotten to know.

Very true statement - it will get all of America out from behind their PCs and TVs, off the cell phones, apple phones, put down their iPods, and get us back outside to socialize like we used to do in the 1950s. Back then everyone knew their neighbors.

[Cheerio]

I have put all my retirement in our “fixed” accounts. Minimal interest and no loss.

When you say "fixed" that must have excluded US Bond Mutual Funds - cause I have taken a beating. I thought I understood the reverse relationship of prices and interest rates, but that turned out to be a fallacy.

[NoGrayZone]

Since I became a “Bible Thumper”, I've been waiting for that time. I really had no idea how the Bible prophecy would come about, however, living day to day, I can now see how.

[eeevil conservative]

SOMEONE GET THESE PEOPLE OUT OF DC!!!

GOOD GRIEF!

[bergmeid]

Not to change the subject, but what is “telemedicine”?

[hoosiermama]

In December, Bayh tried to organize conservative democrats in the senate like the blue dogs are organized in the House. He’s trying to take his party back from the liberals.....Too late.
Up for reelection next time.

[jersey117]

Market down almost 300 now. I thought Geitner was the only one who could fix this.

[penelopesire]

LOL.. I actually didn’t listen to his speech but we were all told that putting the toxic assets in to government program would be the trick.

Apparently the market thinks different.

[TheThinker]

It is the age of cowardice.

It would only take but a little courage and going without non-essentials, to work a little harder to afford health insurance and save for retirement.

It would only take just a little bit of courage to believe in freedom and just letting our congressmen know that we want to hold onto it.

So is this how democracy dies, not with a bang but a whimper?

[NoGrayZone]

Perhaps we should all put down our phones, faxes and emails and instead pick up our Bibles and start praying for a miracle.

[eeevil conservative]

A TRILLION DOLLAR NEW TARP FOLKS!!

that comes to $11,730.29 per actual tax payer......

[ozark hilljilly]

Per Fox: TARP won't be known by that acronym any more.

How about CRAP?
Community Re-organizing And Plundering

[PhiKapMom]

I just got off the phone with our local AARP and the guy was not happy. Said to send him my info and he was going to be calling our Congressman and two Senators to vote NO on the bill. I told him they were already voting NO and to call his national — he said he would. One person at a time!

[eeevil conservative]

sounds more accurate.....

[penelopesire]

Obama fixing to talk to all the old people in Florida that he wants to kill. WOnder how that is going to go over...(eye roll)