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[President] Obama calls stimulus bill a "major milestone;" says it's just the beginning
The Penticton Herald / The Associated Press ^ | February 14, 2009 | David Espo

Posted on 02/14/2009 12:36:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet

President Barack Obama, savouring his first major victory in Congress, said Saturday that newly passed $787 billion economic stimulus legislation marks a "major milestone on our road to recovery."

Speaking in his weekly radio and Internet address, Obama said, "I will sign this legislation into law shortly, and we’ll begin making the immediate investments necessary to put people back to work doing the work America needs done."

At the same time, he cautioned, "This historic step won’t be the end of what we do to turn our economy around, but rather the beginning. The problems that led us into this crisis are_deep and widespread, and our response must be equal to the task."

The bill passed Congress on Friday on_party-line votes, allowing Democratic leaders to deliver on their promise of clearing the legislation by mid-February.

Obama "now has a bill to sign that will create millions of good-paying jobs and help families and businesses stay afloat financially," said Sen. Max Baucus, a Montana Democrat who was a leading architect of the measure.

"It will shore up our schools and roads and bridges, and infuse cash into new sectors like green energy and technology that will sustain our economy for the long term," he added in a statement.

Hours earlier, Senate_Republican_Leader Mitch McConnell offered a different prediction for a bill he said was loaded with wasteful spending.

"A stimulus bill that was supposed to be timely, targeted and temporary is none of the above," he said in remarks on the Senate floor. "And this means Congress is about to approve a stimulus that’s unlikely to have much stimulative effect."

Alaska Sen. Lisa Murkowski, in the Republican radio address Saturday, contended Democrats settled "on a random dollar amount in the neighbourhood of $1 trillion and then set out to fill the bucket."

(Excerpt) Read more at pentictonherald.ca ...


TOPICS: Business/Economy; Front Page News; Government; Politics/Elections
KEYWORDS: agenda; bho2009; bho44; bhostimulus; congress; obama; porkulus; stimulus
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Of course there'll be more porkulus packages, that's how socialism works...
1 posted on 02/14/2009 12:36:17 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Start investing in the Zimbabwe’s currency folks, it will soon be worth more than the US Dollar


2 posted on 02/14/2009 12:37:43 PM PST by txnativegop (God Bless America! (NRA-Endowment) What do U do with unreasonable people?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Well it is a major milestone... and sadly it probably is just the beginning. There was a rumor that Pelosi has another $500 billion bill ready to go but didn’t want to unveil it until they got this passed,


3 posted on 02/14/2009 12:38:18 PM PST by gondramB (Preach the Gospel at all times, and when necessary, use words.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Obama got this Presidentin stuff down now... You just spend and spend and spend and everyone is happy...

Right?


4 posted on 02/14/2009 12:38:33 PM PST by tomnbeverly (Taxpayers doing time on the Obama Plantation.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Zimbabwe School of Economics

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SBI2mCx3b4A&feature=related


5 posted on 02/14/2009 12:39:12 PM PST by george76 (Ward Churchill : Fake Indian, Fake Scholarship, and Fake Art)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

National socialism is an ugly concept.


6 posted on 02/14/2009 12:39:45 PM PST by Reagan Man ("In this present crisis, government is not the solution to our problem; government is the problem.")
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> $787 billion economic stimulus legislation marks a "major milestone millstone on our road to recovery."

There. Fixed it. Dam'ned editors ought to learn how to spell, ay.

7 posted on 02/14/2009 12:39:59 PM PST by DieHard the Hunter (Is mise an ceann-cinnidh. Cha ghéill mi do dhuine. Fàg am bealach.)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

After we borrow the money from China, and the Arabs and pay it back at 6.5% or higher interest it should be over 3 trillion.


8 posted on 02/14/2009 12:40:47 PM PST by YOUGOTIT (I will always be a Soldier)
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[President] Obama calls stimulus bill a ’major milestone;’ millstone;' says it’s just the beginning

There, corrected it .

9 posted on 02/14/2009 12:40:50 PM PST by SandRat (Duty, Honor, Country! What else needs said?)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
Zero is small. The enemy who elected him is large. You can't get to Zero, you can get to your liberal family and friends. What are you going to do?

10 posted on 02/14/2009 12:43:05 PM PST by I see my hands (_8(|)
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Of course there'll be more porkulus packages

I bet you could come up with a term for it that you didn't lift from talk radio.

Could be your mind is just as good as radio actors.

11 posted on 02/14/2009 12:45:25 PM PST by humblegunner (Where my PIE at, fool?)
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To: SandRat
[President] Obama calls stimulus bill a ’major milestone;’ millstone;' says it’s just the beginning

[President] Obama calls stimulus bill a ’major milestone;’ millstone;' says it’s just the beginning of the End

12 posted on 02/14/2009 12:46:12 PM PST by Texas Fossil
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To: tomnbeverly
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“People get the government they deserve.” Joseph deMaistre.

And when people become THIS freaking STUPID and inattentive to their freedoms, THIS is the PRESIDENT they deserve.


13 posted on 02/14/2009 12:47:00 PM PST by Dick Bachert
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

I am getting sick of hearing this was a victory for the Boy President. What did he win? The cooperation of his own party? With Democrats running both houses and foaming at the mouth to enact their agenda, how hard was it for a Democrat President to get them to do what they wanted to do anyway?


14 posted on 02/14/2009 12:49:48 PM PST by csmusaret (You can't spell Democrat without R-A-T.)
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To: All

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We find this very interesting because just two weeks earlier Washington told us we could no protest in DC for at least a year and a half . But the day the spendulus bill passes we get a call from Washington inviting us with a choice of dates and locations. Folks we take this as a sign that our country if starting to realise the mistake they have made with putting Obama in office.

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15 posted on 02/14/2009 12:52:03 PM PST by patriot08
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
doing the work America needs done

Do I hear more than just an echo of "the work Americans won't do" in this?

16 posted on 02/14/2009 12:54:46 PM PST by RegulatorCountry
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To: Dick Bachert
"All [zoos] actually offer to the public in return for the taxes spent upon them is a form of idle and witless amusement, compared to which a visit to a penitentiary, or even to a State legislature in session, is informing, stimulating and ennobling."

"Democracy is the theory that the common people know what they want and deserve to get it good and hard."
~H.L. Mencken

17 posted on 02/14/2009 12:57:15 PM PST by 2ndDivisionVet ("To insist on strength is not war-mongering. It is peace-mongering." Barry Goldwater)
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

did he cry ‘tears of joy’ during his radio address too?


18 posted on 02/14/2009 12:57:50 PM PST by blueplum
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To: 2ndDivisionVet

Hussein is a liar. Or delusional. Either way, it bodes ill for America.


19 posted on 02/14/2009 12:58:10 PM PST by Recovering_Democrat
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To: 2ndDivisionVet
I believe he's getting ready to buy a larger backhoe.
20 posted on 02/14/2009 12:59:08 PM PST by org.whodat (Auto unions bad: Machinists union good=Hypocrisy)
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