If the Stimulus Fails, who will you blame? (democrat, Republican, death)

[MotleyCrew]

I will blame the democrats led by Pelosi. Mostly I will blame Pelosi as she stood there and so bravely stated that the democrats wrote the bill and they won the election. The republorats were not allowed near the room when it was first drafted. The rebublicans voting for it are the usual traitors and have no spine. I hope Michael Steele will give them some new blood and a spine. I hope the bay area liberal idiots come out of their coma and finally vote Nancy into retirement.

[Sporin]

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/07/sti...cuts/index.html (broken link)

(CNN) -- A coalition of Democrats and some Republicans reached a compromise that trimmed billions in spending from an earlier version of the Senate economic stimulus bill.

CNN obtained, from a Democratic leadership aide, a list of some programs that have been cut, either entirely or partially:

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)
• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)
• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)
• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)
• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)
• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)
• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation
• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters
• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization
• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service
• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation
• $100 million for distance learning
• $98 million for school nutrition
• $50 million for aquaculture
• $2 billion for broadband
• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology
• $50 million for detention trustee
• $25 million for Marshalls Construction
• $300 million for federal prisons
• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program
• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program
• $10 million state and local law enforcement
• $50 million for NASA
• $50 million for aeronautics
• $50 million for exploration
• $50 million for Cross Agency Support
• $200 million for National Science Foundation
• $100 million for science
• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees
• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration
• $89 million General Services Administration operations
• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security
• $200 million Transportation Security Administration
• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use
• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife
• $55 million for historic preservation
• $20 million for working capital fund
• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement
• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management
• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start
• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity
• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants
• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)
• $16 billion for school construction
• $3.5 billion for higher education construction
• $1.25 billion for project based rental
• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization
• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing
• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

[malamute]

I also blame Bush along with Obama because he too was quite the big spender.

I'd like to see one democrat explain how this trillion in new debt will ever be repaid, who will repay it? And if throwing a trillion more debt at the problem is such a good solution, then why not throw $50 trillion at it?

So you liberals really do believe that more massive debt is the cure-all for all the problems?

[paullySC]

Blame it on the rain.

Yeah I went there.

[cuebald]

Originally Posted by malamute

I also blame Bush along with Obama because he too was quite the big spender.

I'd like to see one democrat explain how this trillion in new debt will ever be repaid, who will repay it? And if throwing a trillion more debt at the problem is such a good solution, then why not throw $50 trillion at it?

So you liberals really do believe that more massive debt is the cure-all for all the problems?

Absolutely.

Eventually we will be so far in debt to the rest of the World that they will bail us out because we're too big to fail, and everyone will live happily ever after.

[kingtodd]

I place most of the blame on Bush & the GOP. Need I remind you all that they were in charge of every branch of our Government for six of Bush's eight years in office...They shoulder the most because they dug this hole and did nothing to attempt to address it until it was too late...I do not blame much on Obama -- He is taking the issue head on and trying to fix it...It's amazing to me how when Bush asked for 700 Billion, the GOP did not put up any resistance -- they wrote him a blank check w/o condition...Now it's a new Pres. and that new Pres. happens to be Democrat all of sudden the GOP decided to grow some balls & challenge him every step of the way in the name of protecting taxpayer dollars....That smokescreen is so full of B.S. all these clowns on Capitol Hill should be ashamed of themselves...

[seamusnh]

I'd blame the people who created the stimulus, the Democrats, and the president that signed it into law. Who else could be blamed for this?

[TuborgP]

Originally Posted by seamusnh

I'd blame the people who created the stimulus, the Democrats, and the president that signed it into law. Who else could be blamed for this?

The people and actions that created the need for it. The cancer surgeon performing on the the person who has been smoking for 40 years is the one trying to take corrective action. This is remember corrective action for a preexisting condition.

[EinsteinsGhost]

Originally Posted by TuborgP

The people and actions that created the need for it. The cancer surgeon performing on the the person who has been smoking for 40 years is the one trying to take corrective action. This is remember corrective action for a preexisting condition.

Not to those who believe in prayers as the cure all... the invisible hand.

[georgia dem]

with so many people begging the dems not to do this
and Obama screaming it is the end if it does not get passed
who do you think I am going to blame??