NY Post - February 6, 2009
President Obama is right.
It would be a "catastrophe" if we don't pass a stimulus bill - but it would be a much, much bigger catastrophe if he allows THIS piece-of-junk stimulus bill to pass.
Tens of billions of dollars in new spending for federal government buildings. More than $300 billion in new spending for already-bloated government entitlement behemoths like Medicaid.
That's not a stimulus bill for the American people - that's a stimulus bill for the American government.
This was supposed to be a rescue package for us - for the almost 800,000 people thrown out of manufacturing jobs since December 2007, for the 7,000 cut from Home Depot last week, for the 1,000 people who camped out over the weekend in Miami to apply for one of 35 firefighting jobs. We need help now - not in 2010 (when $356 billion will be spent), not in 2011 and after (when $293 billion will be spent). If more than 60 percent of the spending comes well over a year from now, that's not stimulating - that's just teasing us (Continues...)
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