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Originally Posted by Pleasurepays
Why 6 months? Why not a week? There was no discussion or debate on the stimulus plan at all. In fact, everyone voted on it without even reading it. That's not defensible behavior for anyone in government... particularly after they went through the fiasco in changing directions with the TARP money which basically did absolutely nothing as banks just sat on it.
Money spent anywhere stimulates the economy? Thats the rationalization for funding everyone's pet projects?
If that was true, we could just spend our way to wealth and prosperity right? We should never stop spending.
Whether you like it or not... this spending comes with consequences. Thats why we don't just spend money to make ourselves successful.
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You're trying to take the logic behind a one off spending bill with a specific purpose, and make it seem like that's what I want for all government spending all the time.
That's not true.
You and I aren't going to agree on pretty much anything, so let's not have the same argument for the 50th time...we both know where the other stands.
I just wanted to point out that you can't extrapolate what I said about this one thing to cover all government spending all the time.
I'm in favor of rigorous debate, I engage in it all the time
I'm against earmarks, I think spending should go through the committee process and projects should stand on their own merit, and not on how powerful the congressman from that district is.
That being said, this was a one time thing that would have been done no matter who won in November. If republicans had won, the money would have been spent on different things (tax cuts anyone?), but our balance sheet would still look the same.
P.S. - I agree with you on the TARP thing. You can't ask congress for money to do a specific thing, and then at the last minute slip in a provision that says SecTreas can do basically anything he wants with the money.