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babylonsister Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 08:52 AM
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Republican thrift unwise and ill-timed
Republican thrift unwise and ill-timed

The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
CYNTHIA TUCKER
Sunday, January 11, 2009


What a difference a president makes.

With Barack Obama set to take the Oval Office soon, Republicans have rediscovered the inner thrift they buried during the eight years of President Bush’s tenure and six years of a GOP-dominated Congress. With the president-elect outlining his plan for an enormous (and desperately needed) economic stimulus package, Republican leaders, along with a few Democrats, have begun protesting that it costs too much.

Although many noted economists have recommended a spending bill in the trillion-dollar range, House Minority Leader John Boehner was quick to oppose that price tag.

“An $800 billion-to-$1 trillion package, on top of the deficit we already have, you’re adding an awful lot of weight to the debt,” he said last week, adding, “You can’t buy prosperity with more government spending.”

Never mind that many economists say that you can. Never mind that for six free-spending years, the Republican majority rarely met a pork barrel project its members didn’t like or a budget plan that was too costly for their tastes.

But now that a Democrat is set to take the helm and millions of average Americans need help with health insurance or heating bills or groceries, the GOP suddenly worries about spending too much money. Now that experts are recommending Keynesian spending to avert a second Great Depression, Boehner and his cohorts can’t tolerate massive deficits.

Makes you wonder, doesn’t it?

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http://www.ajc.com/opinion/content/opinion/tucker/stories/2009/01/11/cynthia_tucker.html
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opihimoimoi Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 09:13 AM
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1. They are so Expedient...its pathetic...
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spanone Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 09:15 AM
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2. it's all about opposing democrats, not being 'thrifty'
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 11:48 AM
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6. Agreed. And it's high time they stopped.
Democrats aren't perfect either, but Bill Clinton did do more to "appease" than Reagan or Bush ever began to do.

And Obama has been stressing the point home; to work together. So let's do so!
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marshall Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 09:30 AM
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3. Thrift is so early 20th century
My grandparents were extremely thrifty, my parents a little less so, I am thrifty now and then, and the gneration after me lives their lives without thrift. Young people see no value whatsoever to thrift--it's just denying oneself things one wants or needs.
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ljm2002 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 11:43 AM
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4. An excellent column, thanks for sharing...
...she lays it out quite clearly how the Republics act out of pure spite when it's a Democrat in office, and lay down like doormats when it's one of their own doing the spending. Oh and of course, they're also A-Okay with war spending; social or infrastructure spending, not so much.
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Deja Q Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Sun Jan-11-09 11:46 AM
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5. Perfect timing. In 48, 36, 12, or even 2 months from now people will forget the last 96...
:silly:

Minor Wiener John Boner can shove it.
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