Posted on 02/14/2009 6:50:39 PM PST by NormsRevenge
WASHINGTON (AFP) – US President Barack Obama on Saturday hailed a 787-billion-dollar economic stimulus plan passed by Congress as "a major milestone" and promised to sign the bill into law shortly.
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"This is a major milestone on our road to recovery, and I want to thank the members of Congress who came together in common purpose to make it happen," Obama said in his weekly radio address.
The Congress late Friday approved the package of tax cuts and fresh spending to salvage the broken US economy, with the Senate voting 60-38 to pass the measure after it cleared the House of Representatives by a 246-183 margin.
The passage sets the stage for Obama to sign it into law by his self-imposed February 16 deadline, timing that his spokesman Robert Gibbs said was possible provided the paperwork was completed quickly.
Obama expressed confidence that the plan "will save or create more than 3.5 million jobs over the next two years, ignite spending by business and consumers alike, and lay a new foundation for our lasting economic growth and prosperity."
The legislation, a product of hard-fought negotiations this week, allocates 120 billion dollars to infrastructure spending, including money for highways.
It also features nearly 20 billion dollars for renewable energy and 11 billion to modernize the US electrical grid -- steps former vice president Al Gore warmly endorsed ...
The bill includes tax cuts -- expected to benefit 95 percent of US families -- and tens of billions of dollars for extending unemployment benefits, bolstering healthcare for the least well-off and funds to help cash-strapped states avoid cuts in services like education.
A provision inserted by Senate Democrats would also prohibit cash bonuses for top executives at large companies that receive money under the government's bailout program, US newspapers reported Saturday.
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That's where you nailed it!
Eh? What is that you say?
A major millstone?
The Child King and the world he creates in his mind!
Does anyone want to guess how much farther the DJIA goes into the tank Tuesday morning?
The stimulus bill revealed.
And I sure don't want to take these things out of context but time and again, He has warned of such judgements to be ignored at our peril...
In Version La Reina Valera 1960 interestingly translates your tamid as: "[His] truth always guards me (as a contining process)". And then there are those that think all this is mere folly, somehow just "coincidence", "luck of the draw", yeah, right. Cause/effect, there are consequences for all that is done.
The rejection of the truth (and the consequences thereof) is a perpetual theme, as you noted.
2 Thessalonians 2:8-13
8 And then shall that Wicked be revealed, whom the Lord shall consume with the spirit of his mouth, and shall destroy with the brightness of his coming:
9 Even him, whose coming is after the working of Satan with all power and signs and lying wonders,
10 And with all deceivableness of unrighteousness in them that perish; because they received not the love of the truth, that they might be saved.
11 And for this cause God shall send them strong delusion, that they should believe a lie:
12 That they all might be damned who believed not the truth, but had pleasure in unrighteousness.
13 But we are bound to give thanks alway to God for you, brethren beloved of the Lord, because God hath from the beginning chosen you to salvation through sanctification of the Spirit and belief of the truth:
Isaiah 59:14 And judgment is turned away backward, and justice standeth afar off: for truth is fallen in the street, and equity cannot enter.
Anybody with half a clue knows that the president, Congress, and the media are lying. This "stimulus" is snare for the greedy.
As David said,
Psalms 69:22-25
22 Let their table become a snare before them: and that which should have been for their welfare, let it become a trap.
23 Let their eyes be darkened, that they see not; and make their loins continually to shake.
24 Pour out thine indignation upon them, and let thy wrathful anger take hold of them.
25 Let their habitation be desolate; and let none dwell in their tents.
What kind of table? The kind flipped over in the temple.
bank (1) "financial institution," 1474, from either O.It. banca or M.Fr. banque (itself from the O.It. term), both meaning "table" (the notion is of the moneylender's exchange table), from a Gmc. source (cf. O.H.G. bank "bench"); see bank (2). The verb meaning "to put confidence in" (U.S. colloquial) is attested from 1884. Bank holiday is from 1871, though the tradition is as old as the Bank of England. Bankroll (v.) "to finance" is 1920s. To cry all the way to the bank was coined 1956 by flamboyant pianist Liberace, after a Madison Square Garden concert that was packed with patrons but panned by critics.
http://www.etymonline.com/index.php?search=bank&searchmode=none
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