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rateyes Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sat Jan-19-08 11:53 AM
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The 150 billion dollar Economic Stimulus Package could purchase
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Edited on Sat Jan-19-08 11:56 AM by rateyes
a $750,000.00 home for every homeless vet in America--bought and paid for. And, it would put over a million people to work building them. Wouldn't that be a better way to stimulate this economy? I know. Who needs a 3/4 of a million dollar home? OK, then...

a 150 billion dollars could purchase a $100,000.00 home for 1.5 MILLION homeless people in America. And, put even MORE people to work building them. Or, it could provide those homes to the homeless vets, and pay for their health care for a long, long time.

150 billion dollars could provide $10,000.00 grants to 150 MILLION college students---not loans; grants. It could pay for four years of college (at $20,000 a year) for 1,875,000 students.

Yet, we will, instead put $800.00 of tax refund advances (which will have to be paid back by those who don't get refunds larger than that)...to people in order that they can "shop" for ipods and video games and Lead-poisoned Chinese toys, and a bunch of other crap we don't need.

My fellow Democrats, should we really pass this "economic stimulus package" to prop up the Bush Administration Economy to provide a temporary fix? We're putting a band-aid on a hemorrhaging artery.

Priorities in this country are seriously out of whack.



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