Forget rounding them up, just shoot them where you find them.

Republicans did not “hold the stimulus package hostage”. Hey, you won. Obama said so; Pelosi said so. So why not get “your” party to pass it? You have the votes.

I won’t even address why this bill is NOT a stimulus package; you’ll learn that lesson yourself soon enough.

But how is it MY fault that California is bankrupt? I don’t live there. I don’t vote there. I don’t pay taxes there. And I won’t ask anyone from California to pay MY bills or my state’s bills, either.

Sheesh,

Wrong. Tax cut sfor business owners make consumer goods cheaper, and they make hiring more viable.

What about the 200+ economists cited by the CATO institute that disagree with you and your master?

By the way how can the R’s be holding anything hostage when Reid has said multiple times that he has the votes to pass anything he wished.

Quit lying and get off our site.

P.S. You guys have said this crap many times before:

“In the next election, the GOP is going to be eliminated as viable national political party.”

Like in 1992. Well look out for ’94 Redux, aka 2010 Beyotch!!!

Here is the sad fact about tax cuts: they’re a joke for 95% of us.

Tax cuts routinely add up to a net increase of just a few dollars per paycheck, in the process of depleting an already anemic Treasury. The stimulating effect of tax cuts on the national economy is virtually undetectable, as studies of the last tax cut have shown. But, what Republicans are looking for here isn’t an actual solution to the economic free-fall we’re in anyway. They just want a campaign slogan for the next election. Their ideology, rather than any expertise in economics, tells them that the marketplace has to go through these “cycles” now and then, and that the government should do nothing. The reason for this is because the “government” is evil and, therefore, anything it does will only make things worse. (Where were these people for the last 8 years). Again, this is an ideological, rather than economic point of view. The vast majority of people with advanced degrees in economics couldn’t disagree with it more. Even George W. Bush’s and John McCain’s former economic advisors support the stimulus.

A lot of people are very angry about the way the GOP has held the stimulus package hostage, forcing the administration to cut much needed items that would have created jobs and repaired our crumbling infrastructure. States are cutting essential services, and California isn’t even sending out tax refunds for the first time in the state’s history. The argument that tax cuts are going to pull us out of this vertical nose-dive is sheer idiocy. And, leading that debate is a solemn-faced John McCain, having graduated 895th in his Naval Academy class of 899 midshipmen with zero understanding of economics. This intellectual giant has recently announced that President Obama’s stimulus package is just a big spending bill which he cannot support. He calls it “generational theft”. The man is marching like a lemming toward the edge of a cliff, along with the rest of his party.

In the next election, the GOP is going to be eliminated as viable national political party. We can only hope that their short-sighted, self-serving ideology doesn’t drag the country into a Depression before that happens.

But the letter does make at least several interesting points.

First, the short-term stimulative effect of the plan will probably be very significant.

Second, the tax-cutting part of the plan will probably be much less helpful than the spending part.

Third, the long-term effects are harder to estimate than the short-term effects.

Fourth, even if the plan does slow down GDP growth ever-so-slightly in the very-long-term, that might be offset by other harder-to-measure gains in health, education, and human welfare produced by the investments paid for by the stimulus plan.