Ah, more hypocritical congressmen: vote against the stimulus, but then beg for its money

[Beans]

Why wait...You mean like the Bush tax cuts?

Any Dem that condemned them that took them is a hypocrite?...filling out the tax return is requesting them..

"Twa has exercised the demons!. This house is clear."

[Seabee1973]

Filling out a tax return is legally required. Requesting stimulus funds is not. Pretty simple to see the difference, you are reaching bad now.

Actually, that issue you brought up seems more like Dems who opposed tax cuts did so knowing they were opposing cuts they themselves would benefit from because they believed it wouldn't help lower classes. Whereas the congressman opposed the stimulus, but then requested funds using reasons that he originally claimed the stimulus wouldn't do.

Filling out a tax return is only leggally required if you owe money if you dont the government could care less if you fill out a tax return.

[Seabee1973]

Obama says there were jobs ready for funding what is it are they are not?

[Burgold]

Obama says there were jobs ready for funding what is it are they are not?

He was right and wrong simultaneously. There were and are quite a few approved and needed "jobs" that were ready for funding. Frustratingly, even the most "ready" job has to wade through a bureaucracy that slows down the job creation immensely. From the time the money is approve to the time it filters down through the agencies, is taken by the contractors and companies who then hire and put folks to work sadly is much slower than it should be.

The jobs were ready, the projects were ready... the gov't was not. The gov't's just not that good at doing things fast.

[HailGreen28]

He was right and wrong simultaneously. There were and are quite a few approved and needed "jobs" that were ready for funding. Frustratingly, even the most "ready" job has to wade through a bureaucracy that slows down the job creation immensely. From the time the money is approve to the time it filters down through the agencies, is taken by the contractors and companies who then hire and put folks to work sadly is much slower than it should be.

The jobs were ready, the projects were ready... the gov't was not. The gov't's just not that good at doing things fast.

Of course, we're talking about government projects. The economy is based on a lot more than that. If the "stimulus" in the end was supposed to provide temporary benefit mainly through government contracts, it really was at best an expensive band-aid.

[Burgold]

Of course, we're talking about government projects. The economy is based on a lot more than that. If the "stimulus" in the end was supposed to provide temporary benefit mainly through government contracts, it really was at best an expensive band-aid.

Well, it was supposed to be a band-aid... or more precisely a shot of adrenaline. It was not intended to be the cure, but just something to get the heart going so that the free market could regroup and get the economy going again. The stimuli have done what they were supposed to to a fairly large degree. The economy has stabilized and we're not in free fall. The U.S. economy is fragile, but out of the CCU. That said, it was larded with a bunch of waste and stuff that feels like it wouldn't be stimulative. While giving a starving man is good... giving him the wrong meal might kill him faster... and I would be opposed to a third stimulus package because Congress has shown itself to be at best sloppy and at worst...