http://themoderatevoice.com/26674/stimulus-as-gop-hopefuls-iraq/ An Internet hub with domestic and international news, analysis, original reporting, and popular features from the left, center, indies, centrists, moderates, and right Wed, 15 Feb 2012 04:43:19 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.2 http://themoderatevoice.com/26674/stimulus-as-gop-hopefuls-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-173944 superdestroyer Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:32:20 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/26674/stimulus-as-gop-hopefuls-iraq/#comment-173944 There are many things that could go wrong with the stimulus bill. A shovel ready project could be found to employ mainly illegal aliens. Billions could be lose to embezzlement, fraud, or waste. The projects could be caught up in envrionmental lawsuits that have different parts of the Democratic party fighting with each other. The projects take so long that the recession is over before many of them are started. State government spend like drunken sailors and have bigger budget problems in three years than they have today. There are many things that could go wrong with the stimulus bill. A shovel ready project could be found to employ mainly illegal aliens. Billions could be lose to embezzlement, fraud, or waste. The projects could be caught up in envrionmental lawsuits that have different parts of the Democratic party fighting with each other. The projects take so long that the recession is over before many of them are started. State government spend like drunken sailors and have bigger budget problems in three years than they have today.

]]> http://themoderatevoice.com/26674/stimulus-as-gop-hopefuls-iraq/comment-page-1/#comment-173939 elrod Mon, 23 Feb 2009 20:07:58 +0000 http://themoderatevoice.com/26674/stimulus-as-gop-hopefuls-iraq/#comment-173939 "Conservative-based solutions" - which are tax cuts for the investor class and deregulation of markets - brought us to the crisis we're in today. The country does not want "conservative-based solutions" anymore. Yes, we need to get a handle on long-term deficits, and we shouldn't spend willy-nilly on things of dubious economic value. But that doesn't mean going back to Reaganism. “Conservative-based solutions” – which are tax cuts for the investor class and deregulation of markets – brought us to the crisis we're in today. The country does not want “conservative-based solutions” anymore. Yes, we need to get a handle on long-term deficits, and we shouldn't spend willy-nilly on things of dubious economic value. But that doesn't mean going back to Reaganism.

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