Posted on 12/15/2009 9:29:45 PM PST by FromLori
Responding to calls among rank-and-file Democrats for more infrastructure spending, House leaders Tuesday unveiled a plan to add almost $50 billion in spending on highways, housing, and school repair as part of a year-end plan to create jobs.
The measure is aimed at keeping the fragile economic recovery on track with money for teachers, the unemployed and small businesses. A vote is planned for Wednesday.
The Senate, however, won't act until next month at the earliest and has less of an appetite for another costly round of economic stimulus measures.
All told the measure tops $150 billion once additional help for the unemployed and aid to strapped state and local governments is added to provisions designed to have an immediate impact on employment.
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If one more liberal friend whines about President Bush and the deficit, POW! right in the kisser.
Lemme think. The Messiah got $787 Billion authorized for saving and creating jobs, right? Of course, most of it went to every piss pot pork project imaginable except the bucks he’s saving back to buy votes in 2010. And we should approve more because...?
I’ve had it.
It’s torch and pitchfork time.
If there isn’t enough evidence to demonstrate that the libs are trying to deliberately destroy this country, there never will be.
What is it going to take, a nuke from Iran?
This is a rehash of the New Deal. It wasn’t the make-work projects of the New Deal that ended the Depression but the high salaries and forced savings, the employment of 12 million men in the Armed Forces, and the huge demand for American goods after WWII that ended it.
This is a rehash of the New Deal. It wasn’t the make-work projects of the New Deal that ended the Depression but the high salaries and forced savings, the employment of 12 million men in the Armed Forces, and the huge demand for American goods after WWII that ended it.
This is a rehash of the New Deal. It wasn’t the make-work projects of the New Deal that ended the Depression but the high salaries and forced savings, the employment of 12 million men in the Armed Forces, and the huge demand for American goods after WWII that ended it.
This is a rehash of the New Deal. It wasn’t the make-work projects of the New Deal that ended the Depression but the high salaries and forced savings, the employment of 12 million men in the Armed Forces, and the huge demand for American goods after WWII that ended it.
Ya, I thought Porkulus was supposed to take care of this.
And, I’ve heard that most of the $787 billion hasn’t been spent yet.
So why is there a need for yet another bill with another huge price tag?
bounce
What we need is a $1750B cut in deficit spending to boost jobs.
This is awesome in its unhinged-from-reality-ness
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