"Married couples" get $10,000...Can you build a road for $10K?

[SoCalDem]

If it's per address, cohabitating couples would be exempt? or just get $5k?

Republican legislators are batshit-insane.. all they are doing now is throwing shitty "ideas" into the mix....just to slow it all down and make it all appear soooooo complex..

[sinkingfeeling]

1. $10K for what? Being married?

[SoCalDem]

3. Sen Thune's "plan" for the stimulus.. $986B divided by 200million people

such simpletons...republicans

[alcibiades_mystery]

6. That's stupid...everybody will pay off their debts and the banks will fail

Maybe once upon a time when Americans weren't leveraged to the hilt, a $10,000 check would produce stimulus and spending. But the last thirty years have seen the increase of debt to extraordinary levels, as the capitalists have insisted on BOTH exorbitant consumption and stagnating wages. All the middle class tax relief in the world won't change the fact that Americans are in debt to the neck and scared about it: the $10,000 check will go directly to the credit card companies for a significant portion of the population, and will not be cycled into jobs or anything else - in fact, it will put the credit card companies in worse shape, since they'll have a big cash infusion but decreasing interest payments. Those who paid off some debt, similarly, will hunker down, not go out and accumulate all kinds of new debt. This is a monstrously stupid idea.

[lyonn]

10. Sounds about right, credit cards are paid down, but,

bridges, etc. are crumbling and there are no new jobs. It is just plain stupid on Thune's part. He is taking up precious air time. He dosen't understand the principles of "stimulating the economy".

[JoDog]

2. So what do you get if

you're single? Or will this be just another part of the tax system that shafts the single and childless?

[SoCalDem]

4. $5k, I guess...

he knows it's crap, but still felt compelled to run to a tv camera to "sell it"..

[Incitatus]

5. That's the dumbest fucking Idea I've heard yet.

What jackass suggested that?

[SoCalDem]

7. John Thune (R).. the guy who bumped off Daschle

He's not the sharpest crayon in the box..

[Ioo]

8. what about legal same sex marriages?

<craws under the bus again>

[pnwmom]

11. $5K each -- $10K for the two of them. You can crawl out, please.

But it's still a totally stupid plan.

[Vinca]

9. $5,000 a head for people who pay taxes.

As if we'd run out and blow it on stuff rather than pay bills. One of the dumbest ideas to come out of the Republicans yet.

[crimsonblue]

12. I'm selfish

but I'd take that. I'd love to pay off my credit card debt. Why not do that AND a stimulus bill? :D

[SoCalDem]

13. That's Thune's plan..no stimulus..

just that:(

paying off a credit card is wonderful, but it does not "create" jobs or "save" jobs.... It only helps people pay for stuff they bought with plastic, because they had no "real money" to pay for the stuff..

in a perfect world, those people would start using cash to buy stuff, but unless the cards were canceled, and people made to reapply with realistic credit checks, and limits on credit line, most would be back in the hole within a year..

[earth mom]

14. Can someone explain this in more depth?

Because our family could really use $10K right now, even if it's via the rethugs. :hide:

[SoCalDem]

15. It's not a "real" plan..just some goofball idea that Thune pulled out of his ass

to muddy the waters..

This is their whole plan.. They MUST stop Obama's momentum, and none of them have ANY intention of letting him claim credit for his first big bill.. They want to mark his entrance into the presidency, by labeling him a failure...then the media can crow about how "wrong" they all were about him, and they can cluck cluck about how ineffectual he is..

This is why his cabinet picks are being pilloried, and why his bill is being ripped asunder..

republicans have no good ideas, so any lame idea will do..

[earth mom]

16. Thanks for letting me know.

:hi: