What does it cost to appease 3 Republicans?

[ThoughtCriminal]

$108 billion.

How many jobs could have been created or saved? Many of the most effective measures were cut out and some of the least effective measure substituted.

Failure has become the GOP's only option. In order to survive, they must make the economy fail in the next two years. The cuts to the stimulus bill are just part of the "Fail" strategy.

[zbdent]

1. what was that ...

6 months in Iraq?

[ColbertWatcher]

8. I thought it's 1 week in Iraq. n/t

[elocs]

2. Obama is pragmatic and he will take as much as he can get.

This is not an all or nothing proposition. Obama is smart enough to realize that in the real world of politics you cannot always get everything you want and I am sure he is pleased to get the votes of the 3 Republicans.

[Duer 157099]

3. But since when have repugs been elected to clean up any mess?

They are really fooling themselves at their own peril! (shhhh, don't tell them though!)

Repugs are only put in office when everything is going well in this country.

Isn't that true, historically?

[DKRC]

4. Diapers, the children in them, & drugs

$108 billion, just icing on the fail cake.

:puke:

[JuniperLea]

5. It's all politics and the next election to them

Screw the rest of us, fuck the unemployed, to hell with the hungry.

Bastards are on my last, frayed nerve!

[Joe the Liberal]

6. Why are we trying to appease them anyway?

$108 billion to get 3 republicans on board is not worth it.

[sfpcjock]

7. I thought the same thing

$110 B loss in employment resulting in 500,000 job loss from the three lame-ass senators from Main and Penn. Let's see... that's about:

$110 B/3 = $36 Billion for each lame ass losses to the economy in dollars

or, if you prefer

500,000/3 = 167 Thousand jobs per lame-ass liar with lifetime pensions and healthcare in the senate

What stuttering fool is WORTH 167 Thousand jobs?

[Two Americas]

9. what they are fighting

They don't want - or rather their bosses do not want - a restoration of the public infrastructure, a revival of organized labor, a return of regulation, health and safety inspections, and any reigning in and oversight over the financial industry. That is the "country" they care about - the country of 1% of the population, the country of the wealthiest and most powerful people. There is no "philosophy" or "ideology" behind that, they just make stuff up to fool people into supporting them.

They do not want things to improve for the rest of us - they want us desperate and submissive. Their clients can make more money that way.

[renate]

10. well put n/t

:applause:

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