The 150 billion dollar Economic Stimulus Package could purchase

[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.

[SammyWinstonJack]

1. Put the money too better use, possibly in the ways you have outlined.

Otherwise, bu$hco should just keep his bribe money. I don't want it.

[rateyes]

4. I hear you.

We Democrats should be pushing our agenda of compassion during this "teachable moment" in our history.

[kikiek]

2. Yes they are.

[patrice]

3. Or we could just cut to the chase . . .

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=389x2716681#2716692

[rateyes]

6. LOL.

[patrice]

5. P.S. Answer to your question: NO

I will make my phone calls this week.

[Blue Congress]

7. Why don't they freaking help the injured veterans they have created?

Veterans that they have created are already ending up homeless, or mentally ill without treatment.
This is such an insult to compassion. They even charge our troops for their uniforms and equipment if they are ruined in an attack, they charge them for food in the hospital when they are hurt.


http://peacecandidates.com/

[rateyes]

8. Good question. I wish I had the answer. nt

[patrice]

9. Cheney has robbed this folks of their essential Humanity and thrown them to the dogs

by lying them into a situation in which they had to do horrible things (that only hurt their objectives/goals/motivations to be there in the first place) in order to survive.

I'm a strong, self-aware person with many kinds of life experiences, and I've been anti-War since I was sixteen years old, but I'm telling you that what happened to these guys would destroy me too.

Whether their goals were appropriate realistic motives or not, when you've formed a motive and committed to it and done extraordinarly stressful things in service of that motive and then you find out that there is some GREAT error-or-lie, you don't just walk away from a thing like that without FUNDAMENTAL change in who and what you are. Human psychology IS "plastic" but not that plastic.

[citizen snips]

10. its a joke

Bernanke said that it will help people pay off credit card debt. How can you pay off credit card debt with a $600 check?

[rateyes]

11. Bernanke is a joke.

The economy is headed for the crapper. Period. He just wants to prop it up long enough to get Bush out of the WH.

[Phoebe Loosinhouse]

12. Interesting, because that wouldn't be stimulating.

Paying off debt is highly worthwhile, but that would put these dollars towards consumerism that has ALREADY occurred. I thought they wanted to encourage more American "spend our way out of the recession" activity.

To me, the stimulus is just like friends I've had who have been in financial pits and still have just a little bit of the spending limit left on their credit cards so they say "screw it!" and go out and buy three more pairs of shoes they don't need and get their hair and nails done. It temporarily makes them feel and look better, but in reality they are worse off than when they started.

[NutmegYankee]

13. He probably figures it might help the banks

Which would be normal, since they care all about the banks and hedge funds, but couldn't give a damn about you and me. The money might keep the credit card payments flowing in.