The stimulus bill

Unemployment rates are at 7.9% or around there. The stock market is quickly circling the drain. People continue to lose their homes at incredible rates. Banks are failing. And yet, all the Senate and House republicans can talk about is how the new stimulus bill will fail and put America further under. No talks of what needs to be changed within the bill, no alternative plans or courses of actions. Just negativity, negativity, negativity on top of tax cuts. This shit was supposed to be finished, the age of power plays and trying to muscle your party back to the top. Of course no one likes the prospect of spending nearly a trillion dollars, BUT YOUR PARTY LEFT US IN THIS SITUATION!!! More specifically, Bush's administration left us here. And for all those republicans who sat on their asses the last eight years, what leg do you have to possibly stand on? You let Bush and the good ole' boy system run roughshod over regulations, let them exercise powers that clearly were unconstitutional (only CONGRESS can declare war, REMEMBER?), and did let bush spend BILLIONS UPON BILLIONS in Iraq, when we should have been in Afghanistan. I mean, come on! Any other year, fine, be the petty babies that you are and pout and stomp your feet at Dems spending and creating "Big Government". But this isn't any old year, this is the worse economic downturn since the GREAT DEPRESSION. It was called the Great Depression for a reason, people had NOTHING. People committed suicide because they lost everything. Families where torn apart, people lost their dignity as Americans. It's so hard to think that the people who touted themselves as America's party, the Party of the People, would drag their asses and not offer any help to the American People. The only thing I've heard is, "Oh it's wasteful spending" or "Government shouldn't intervene in these matters". If government shouldn't intervene when things are this bad, when should they? I mean come on, 7.9% of Americans don't have a job. And that number is going to grow, it's only February.

Both republicans and democrats are playing politics again. But the difference this time around is we have a President who won't stand for it. He tried to reach out to House and Senate GOP members, but they slapped his hand away. So I'm all for President Obama moving forward to get this done. You can't sit on your hands and do nothing. OUR BANKS ARE FAILING!!! Do the republicans understand this???? When a bank, the symbol of the American economy besides the actual American consumer, fails it should make everyone jump out of their freaking skin. We invest in banks, put our life savings there, we mortgage from them for our homes and cars. We get loans from them for our kids to go to college. Once they fail completely, what then? We're screwed.

The funny thing is, people said the same thing about FDR. The New Deal was going to be the end of America. All it did was pull America out of the worst economic depression in American history. I'm not going to say that this plan is the New New Deal. But it's the best we've got, and until republicans can come up with a new plan, which they can't, they need to shut it and help where they can. It's not about being right or wrong anymore. It's about AMERICA. America first, right GOP?? You guys complain that there are too many projects for infrastructure repair in the bill, well what happens when you skim on dams, bridges and roads??? You get Hurricane Katrina, you get that bridge that collapsed in Minnesota, you get people worried that the levees that can only sustain a level 2 Hurricane will break and wash away their homes and lives. LEVEL 2, ARE YOU KIDDING ME?!?!?! Hurricanes have 5 levels, why the hell would you build something that couldn't even take half that in an area where f*cking hurricanes happen every single year. Our bridges are old as hell, and the amount of havoc and destruction that would result if they began to fall is too terrifying to even think about.

On a brighter note, if the republicans don't want to cooperate, the dems and President Obama can move forward. They may try and charge Obama with backing of of his bipartisanship ideals, but you can't work with someone who is not willing to work with you. When they were the majority, the Republicans still pulled shit like this, they just had the muscle, and the president to follow through. Now that they are the minority, they still want everything their way. I heard on CNN that some republicans were angry that we were spending money on revamping our education system. That is the most idiotic statement ever made, and it shows exactly why we need to revamp. President Obama, I have your back because I know you care about America, not just how you look to your party.