Comments on: Obama on Reigning In The Deficits http://www.scottkentjones.com/obama-on-reigning-in-the-deficits/01/2010/ Faith, Theology, Culture, Life Tue, 11 May 2010 15:32:07 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.2.1 By: Stacee Houck http://www.scottkentjones.com/obama-on-reigning-in-the-deficits/01/2010/comment-page-1/#comment-1094 Stacee Houck Sun, 31 Jan 2010 22:39:20 +0000 http://www.scottkentjones.com/?p=266#comment-1094 This lecture is very hard to buy, and I completely tuned out when he blamed the 7 Republican Senators for stalling a bill...Democrats don't need any Republican votes to pass a bill. Republicans are obsolete in the house and senate right now. If the bill is good policy, the Dems. can pass it all by themselves. Furthermore, $100 billion for a new jobs "stimulus" is hardly reigning in spending. Especially considering that the last stimulus is very sketchy on the actual number of jobs created and if the numbers were actually correct, each job saved or created has cost we taxpayers over $400,000 each. I'm no numbers genius, but that seems a very impractical way of spending money. This lecture is very hard to buy, and I completely tuned out when he blamed the 7 Republican Senators for stalling a bill…Democrats don’t need any Republican votes to pass a bill. Republicans are obsolete in the house and senate right now. If the bill is good policy, the Dems. can pass it all by themselves.

Furthermore, $100 billion for a new jobs “stimulus” is hardly reigning in spending. Especially considering that the last stimulus is very sketchy on the actual number of jobs created and if the numbers were actually correct, each job saved or created has cost we taxpayers over $400,000 each. I’m no numbers genius, but that seems a very impractical way of spending money.

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