President Obama is stressing bipartisanship when it comes to the $900 billion economic stimulus plan being considered in the Senate, and he may get it — in unity of opposition.
Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., said he “can’t believe that the president isn’t embarrassed about” the stimulus packages that have passed the House and the Senate appropriations and finance committees.
The Senate is set to take up debate on the plan Monday afternoon. Republicans insist it won’t go through in its current form.
Isn’t it time to form a modern day CCC. There’s a lot of roads needing repair and campsites reworked througout our nation. I know that some of the reciprients of financial help can’t handle a shovel or rake but isn’t there enough strong bodies to get some national work done?? Couldn’t some of the recipients of Federal handout money work a bit??? Nuff said!!!
I’d like to volunteer a number of Republican Senators – they desperately need an education in what it means to work hard while living with the chronic anxiety of how to house, clothe and feed your family and pay for health insurance. Every time they open their mouths, they reveal they haven’t a clue – and make it clear they don’t want to know either.
From the pork mentioned in this post, it is clear that Democrat Congressmen have no respect for the needs of their constituents. $650,000 to buy government employees cars. That’s obscene. A tiny amount of that would help me with my bills and groceries Dan.
The Dems plan would cost $215,000 per job created. That’s ‘job’ not ‘career’. With the CCC and the other work plans of the FDR administration, when the road, cave, etc. was completed, that person went back to being unemployed.
However, IF that money were spread among the small businesses and local corporations across America, they could create career positions at a fraction of that cost.
Jim, I really think that if they gave the money to the small businesses and local corporations across America they would do with it exactly what the banks have done with the money we have already given them. They would give it to the officers of their corporations as a bonus.
That was the fault of the Democrats for not writing accountability into the original plan — for which they promptly blamed President Bush.
I’m guessing the Senate talk is just a negotiating ploy. They will ‘compromise,’ by spending another $100 billion to bribe the appropriate senators.
News this morning reported the Senate plan is over $950 Billion. about $100 Billion more than the House plan.
#4. Jim, My dad was in CCC in the ’30’s. It was a great help to him and his family. He was fed, housed, worked hard, and got $6 a month. $24 a month went to his parents to feed his siblings. When projects were finished the CCC moved the men to new projects. To get “discharged” you had to prove you had a job or could support yourself in college. My dad did both, working full time seven days a week and going to college full time. He is the only college student I know who sent money home so his sisters could eat. They are all dead now, except my dad, who is 93. Please consider some of the good things the CCC’s did to help young men get out of the depression and shoulder up to their responsibilities.
P.S. My point was, it was not the usual practice of CCC to discharge men to unemployment.
CanaAnglican, thanks for speaking from experience. My botany teacher in college said that the CCC was the only thing that got his father through the Depression. Another New Deal project designed to help young farm families in desperate straights created a model community in south Georgia that remains a thriving farming community. The families who were brought there and given a new chance stayed and continued farming into the next generation and being solid citizens and community leaders. Some of them told me they were brought there from truly desperate circumstances.