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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
Maybe the credit markets are more important, I wasn't saying one was good and one was bad....it's just that everyone keeps calling the stimulus "another bailout" when that's not what it is....and I think the way the bank bailout was handled (badly) is what's causing alot of people to not like the stimulus idea.
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I agree, it was sold poorly to the American people. They didn't explain what the reasons were and they weren't transparent. It also came across as something that wasn't thought out very well.
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Originally Posted by Snake Doctor
You are using the term pork incorrectly. Pork refers to the process by which a spending measure gets put into a bill, it's not directly related to what the money is actually spent on. (For instance a museum in Georgia that gets slipped into a bill without debate = pork....a museum in Georgia that goes through the committee process = NOT pork)
Every dollar of the spending in this bill has been thoroughly vetted and debated. You may not like what it's being spent on, but that doesn't mean it's pork.
I don't get your logic...for Democrats to prove they're "different" they spend the money on defense contractors and corporate tax breaks instead of social programs?
Whatever.
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I'm going by the definition I know of for pork. Here it is:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel_spending
I'm also sure it's been vetted and debated, it doesn't make it stupid. I have no problem with a stimulus plan, one that is built to stimulate the economy by creating real jobs and building real value for the country. This plan has a lot of bad spending that won't benefit anyone but their supporters.
To prove they are different, they should cut out the bullshit special interest spending. That's the spending Republicans did for a decade and helped get us in massive debt. It's the same thing now, just different special interests. They don't give a shit about any of us. Look at the bill objectively and not as being written by "your team".