The Republicans *do* have a stimulus plan!! It costs 3.5 TIMES Obama's ($3.1Trillion over 10 years)

[underpants]

http://thinkprogress.org/2009/02/02/demint-stimulus/

Senate GOP’s ‘stimulus plan’ costs 3.5 times as much as Obama’s.»

This morning, Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell (R-KY) said that President Obama’s recovery package, priced at roughly $819 billion, is too expensive. GOP “members” believe that they can pass a “very robust” stimulus at a cheaper price, he said:

Most of my members believe that we could pass a very robust stimulus for less than the amount currently before us. We have been throwing figures around like it was paper money. We are already looking at, before we even do this, at over a trillion dollar deficit for this year. We all agree that we need to do something, but I don’t think we should not just completely act like the amount is irrelevant.

But McConnell’s cheaper plan doesn’t exist. Sen. Jim DeMint (R-SC) is pushing the Senate GOP’s only alternative, “American Option: A Jobs Plan That Works.” A new Wonk Room analysis finds that DeMint’s plan will cost $3.1 trillion over ten years, more than 3.5 times the cost of Obama’s:

[MannyGoldstein]

1. And All Of It Goes To Hank Paulson n/t

[Deja Q]

2. Well, if they spent it on BDSM hookers who dig old men in diapers, there ya go...

Just legalize prostitution and everyone's happy.

:silly:


But in seriousness, I think President Obama's plan has a greater chance of turning America around and away FROM bankruptcy -- rather than toward it, as 25+ years of trickle down nonsense have dared to show.