Yesterday, President Obama's economic stimulus bill passed in the House of Representatives. Next week, most likely, the Senate will consider the bill. Thank goodness for the Democratic majority, because Congressional Republicans have been openly critical of the bill. In fact, not a single Republican member of the House voted in favor of it.
House Republican leader John Boehner claims that the bill "has nothing to do with creating jobs or preserving jobs." However, creating and saving jobs is precisely what the bill is designed for.
Earlier this month, Obama pointed out that an analysis of his stimulus plan by his top economic advisors "shows that between 3 million and 4 million U.S. jobs could be saved or created by 2010, nearly 90% of them in the private sector."
The Republicans seem to have no problem with the almost $600 billion we've already spent on the unnecessary and disastrous Iraq war and occupation -- funded with no help from the very rich, who got nice tax cuts from Bush. But they do have a problem with spending just a little bit more to stimulate the economy by putting us little people to work on much-needed infrastructure and green energy projects.
Again we see where their priorities lie. Did the 2006 and 2008 election results teach them nothing?
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