Monday, February 9, 2009

Less Stimulus

The Senate Democrats a determined to pass something in the Stimulus package. The Senate's $780 billion stimulus plan is a budget buster. The Senate plan is dramatically more weighted than the House bill toward tax cuts. Over 40 percent of the stimulus package that is proposed are cost of tax cuts. Some say that the tax cuts will do little or nothing to stimulate job creation, which we are in dire, need for saying we lost over 600,000 jobs in January alone. They have cut out over 20 billion alone that was set aside for school construction, that would actually give people permanent jobs and help with education. The money for Head Start and Early Start childcare has been cut. Transportation funding has been cut. The House's proposal to help maintain unemployed Americans heath benefits has been cut. My opinion of this whole stimulus proposal is IT IS A MESS! How will any of this help everyday Americans? I thought this whole stimulus proposal was to help us get out of the situations most of us are in. Why are we as a country going to go billions of dollars in debt to help car manufactors? We need to be helping the school systems, helping the unemployed, and helping the elders not bailing out car companies. This new president thing was supposed to make everything better and all he has done so far is make things worse.

2 comments:

  1. Very good article summary! You gave figures, and supplied me with much needed information! The whole fact that we lost over 600,000 jobs in January is a very scary thing. I agree with you that we need to be helping the school systems, and helping the unemployed especially those who have lost their jobs in the last two months. I agree with you the new President thing has got to be fixing something.

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  2. Cassie,
    The font you're using is pretty small and difficult to read-maybe it's just because I'm so old. I'd consider making the font larger.

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