Comments on: Large Majority Of Americans Favor Obama Stimulus Plan

By: ExiledIndependent

ExiledIndependent — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 12:55:04 +0000

It frustrates me that this issue instantly becomes polarized and politicized. Across both aisles, it seems like politicians old and new are either delusional or intentionally wrongheaded in the approach to truly fixing the economy. More debt–national and personal–isn’t the solution, it’s the problem. Fixing the problem by doing more of the things that caused the problem? Huh? Seriously? And then let’s turn it into a political issue so the sheeple among us can line up in neat little rows behind the “for” and “against” polling responses.

Me, I’m teaching my kids Mandarin. But as for me, I’m thinking that someday I’ll be that cranky old immigrant in Yankeetown, just on the outskirts of Beijing, who stubbornly refuses to learn the language.

By: Doug Mataconis

Doug Mataconis — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 10:52:25 +0000

How can American’s support a plan that hasn’t been presented yet and which nobody knows the details off.

Methinks the people at Gallup have run out of questions to ask now that the election is over.

By: Jim S

Jim S — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 03:06:12 +0000

Yawn.

By: mw

mw — Wed, 03 Dec 2008 02:55:12 +0000

Of course we support it. Because Americans believe in magic! Just close your eyes, click your heels three times and repeat this phrase “There is nothing like free money. There is nothing like free money.” If the money isn’t there – just print more. Or borrow it from China.

So what if we are piling massive new spending and massive new debt on the massive spending increases, easy money and debt of the Bush administration that helped create this crisis. But wait! There is a difference! This time it is the traditional democratic constituencies that will be the primary beneficiaries, instead of the traditional Republican constituencies who have been suckling on the public teat for the last eight years. What’s not to like if you are a Democrat? After all, all we have to do is keep borrowing more and printing more and borrowing more and printing more money. No problem. There are no consequences here. And when the currency collapses, well that’s not our problem. Lets just let our kids and grandkids worry about that.

Yes this is the kind of change I can really believe in – replacing the Republican pigs at the trough with the Democratic pigs at the trough. New politics. Transformation. Hope. Change. Brings a tear to my eye.