Ofcourse republickans are going to oppose ANYTHING that cuts into energy profits. They’ve been doing it for years, this should not come as a surprise. However, where their hypocricy lies is in the fact that they don’t oppose subsidies of oil and coal that already exist.

The Republicans are just making a last stand so that they can save some face with their constituency. It’s just pissing in the winds (of hope and change).

Dolling out billions is not an answer to the economic problem. This started out as a credit crisis – a banking problem – because of poor risk modeling and a great many assumptions that followed from this flawed understanding of risk. Before we release hundreds of billions of dollars into the economy, perhaps we should be considering correcting the problems in the financial system through which all of this capital will ultimately flow. We are just delaying suffering if we do not fully address the problems with our capital markets before fueling them with all of this funny money.

Will someone please tell me what happens to all of these jobs once the make-work projects are completed?

$248 million of that money going toward Homland Security would have been for furniture.

According to CNN, the $88 million will be spent to draw the plans to make a new ship. According to Navy Times, it would take 10 years to build the next icebreaker. The Navy Times also put the cost at between $800 million and $925 million to build one ship.

The clean coal plant was shot down before because it was labled inefficient by the critics.

Amtrak has been losing money for years. If it was private only, it would have gone out of business decades ago.

At its peak in 1998, 530,000 participated in the youth work summer program. If the government got the same number, it would translate to $2,264 per kid or less than minimum wage. I can’t find anything one why the Republicans have cut this program in the past. If it would go toward groups like ACORN which are very much support the Democratic Party then I could see why Republicans wouldn’t like the program.

Now THAT’S an expensive building!
“$750 billion to build and furnish a real headquarters for Homeland Security”

“Now THAT’S an expensive building!
‘$750 billion to build and furnish a real headquarters for Homeland Security’”

Probably $25 million just for toilets, and let’s hope they don’t need a lot of hammers.

$750 billion is a typo. $448 million is the real figure for a Homeland Security headquarters.

Is that Sean Penn or Jose Ferrer on the RS cover? Of course, most of thee wouldn’t know who Jose is/was.

lately there’s been talk that the GOP has framed this conversation and taken it over. I tend to look at the media. Yes they have to cover this argument and they can only write what the gop says, but maybe it’s reached a saturation point? I don’t want to see their list of 32 anything, but thanks…
I have this image of Obama smiling while Rahm is going nuts over this, saying “Be nice. Be nice until it’s time not to be nice” … Will he appeal to all the folks in his email list? Mathews mentioned that last night…

Jeff | 2/3/2009, 5:26 pm EST

Will someone please tell me what happens to all of these jobs once the make-work projects are completed?

Will someone tell me how in the hell the US goverment is going to find 2-3 million credentialed workers for these jobs? These projects are way more involved than the canal digging and railroad track laying jobs of yesteryear.

thecoz

Got a better idea?

@out of work: I am out of work too. And not because I don’t have better ideas than renovating buildings and replacing working cars with hybrids for “economic recovery.” What a waste.

And, RS, what on earth is STD resreach to do with economic recovery?!! RS is a pack of drippy populist social butterflies – they look so cute trying to comment intelligently on economic stuff. Reaction to half your arguments: It is for ECONOMIC STIMULUS. All this other crap can be billed to us later, thanks! Can you please FOCUS?

@out of work: I am out of work too. And not because I don’t have better ideas than renovating buildings and replacing working cars with hybrids for “economic recovery.” What a waste.

And, to RS, what on earth is STD prevention to do with economic recovery?!! RS is a pack of drippy populist social butterflies – they look so cute trying to comment intelligently on economic stuff.

Reaction to half your arguments: It is for ECONOMIC STIMULUS. All this other crap can be billed to us later, thanks! Can you please FOCUS?

Biiiig DUMMIES.

@blood for oil of olay: “The Republicans are just making a last stand so that they can save some face with their constituency. It’s just pissing in the winds (of hope and change).”

With “change” – haaaa! – like this, who needs business as usual?

Keep wishing for that (insert what you wanted Santa Obama to bring) “change.” Maybe you’ll get some free socks with the Obama logo on them, to wear once the free oil from Chavez runs out. Madness. Suckers. Sad.

Gee, why didn’t you mention the 75 million for smoking cessation or the 1 billion for 2010 Census? Do you know what a census is? You block heads don’t realize our future is being stolen. At least we’ll have an accurate block head count!

Come on now guys, lay off the writer of the column. We all know what a serious and intellectually stimulating political magazine Rolling Stone is. Emotion over rational thought.

That’s cute, apparently no bias and giving the full story. Instead of writing the actual claim: “$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.”
You just write clean coal plant. Way to construe the facts you douche.

Btw, sorry for the double post but am I the only one who sees the fear mongering over the stimulus bill by President Obama similar to the President Bush Patriot Act?

just a thought ? would not drilling for oil,in the USA right now not later ,be a good start jobs. cheeper gas ect.

Stan, jobs yes, cheaper gas, no. That would involve nationalizaing out oil industry, otherwise you’re just going to have more oil to export, which doesn’t cheapen our gas prices at all.

uh, hope and change reference was intended to be facetious

I do not see any “change” in this administration. My fellow Gen Yers are being bamboozled. Hopefully they will wake up and not sit around thinking about “change we can believe in” b/c this isn’t it….