Obama Stimulus Package Must Not Pass

[branica]

I was really hoping for "change" with President Obama. But besides his public tactics to engage with the other side. The package is still more of the same - pork and unnecessary spending by the US Government yet again. In this climate, how can the government expect us to accept a package like this?

I have heard, saw and read that Republicans should "better" support the package because Obama won and is widely popular - like this post:

Pensito Review » Why the Republicans Better Support Obama’s Stimulus Package

But is this a reason to support a package this size? Because someone is popular? Can this be real? As the American public hears more about this Stimulus Package, the support will continue to fall. Sure American's want something to happen or a quick fix. But is this package trying to solve the problem of the credit markets? Or spending any money at all to understand why this crisis happened or an approach to fix the core problems? I think you know the answer to that: NO.

Please Senate Republicans and Sane Democrats - fight this package to the bitter end. Who else is ensuring any check and balances these days?!

[branica]

I just read that the Senate is looking at some interesting amendments to the Stimulus Bill. And I do think that most of these would be stimulative:

• 4% mortgage
• Expand home buyer credit
• Hold off on foreclosures

I think would actually make it easier for someone like me to accept the package.

[G-MAN5284]

Our country runs on the premise of self-correcting systems which are based on rewards and consequences. If one of those is removed, the self-correcting mechanism is dismantled. It would be like cutting your car in half, throwing half away, and expecting the other half function as it did when the car was whole. In other words, let the banks fail (others will fill the voids left in the market), let the foreclosures go forward (the decisions made by the borrowers and lenders were bad decisions and we mustn't remove the consequences), and en business as usual in Washington. Business as usual is running up unmanageable debt and leaving it for the next administration to deal with. The problem is that the next administration never deals with it. Obama promised change and has thus far delivered business as usual on steroids. I'm not partisan, but I'm not blind either.

Much of this could be resolved with congressional term limits. Legislation has been, and continues to be, for sale to the highest bidder. How else do you explain lobbying becoming a multi-million (or even billion) dollar industry. Additionally, partisan bickering will not end until we get rid of the partisans. It's like ants. You can kick mound over but it will be rebuilt the next day. If you want to get rid of the mound, you have to get rid of the ants.