"Most of the programs that have been criticized as part of this package amount to less than one percent of the overall package." BHO

Ya, well, with 50 or so programs that each equal 1%..... well do the math.

Its true...

the main criticisms have been for small percentage of the total bill. The critics like to make it sound like it's a huge thing though.

It's my money, so I'll worry about every friggin penny, thank you very much!

Quit worrying so much about something you cannot control or influence. Pay attention to the final plan that gets signed. Then discuss it or worry yourselves to death over it...

^ Great advice! There's nothing I can do about it, even those these schmucks work for me. Doesn't that worry just a little that these azzholes don't care what we think once they've been elected?

Nope, it has always been that way!

"Who is John Galt?"

^

How many hear do you think know what you are alluding to?

IT is enough money to pay the entire budget for all of the states for 2 years.

THIS IS THE MOST INSANE THING EVER DONE IN AMERICAN POLITICS !

#9 Sadly probably not many.

Perhaps if I did a Cliff Notes review of it, some might understand.

So what?

Stop worrying about that which you cannot control or influence.

It is a lot healthier...

You're right, we should all just shut up and not say anything until we are bled dry like a three week old, flat, road kill squirrel. Why should we speak up about how our tax dollars are being used? Since they have us believing there "is nothing we can about it anyway".

You'll excuse me if I'm not ready to line up for my re-education program just yet.

If we cut all foreign aid...

Learn Mandarin in your spare time.

I do worry, Robert, and I care deeply, because my children and grandchildren will be left, terribly unfairly, to pay for the sins of a generation of self-aggrandizing, power-grabbing, political zealots.

THAT........angers me...

The day of humble, selfless, public service is gone.

The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public debt should be reduced, the arrogance of officialdom should be tempered and controlled, and the assistance to foreign lands should be curtailed lest Rome become bankrupt. People must again learn to work, instead of living on public assistance.

---- Cicero - 55 BC

All great empires must come to an end.

poor squirrel....

We've been beat down and conditioned into thinking that if a stimulus bill is "mostly" okay, then we should be thankful and support it. If this is the crisis the politicos are telling us it is, then why in the hell can't those SOB's discipline themselves to cut out ALL of the pork? The citizens should go through those 2 houses with 635 hammers and institute a little attitude adjustment.