The 2009 Obama/Limbaugh Economic Stimulis Package!!

Taskr, I don't believe that epiphany was lost on Rush. I believe he knows full well the why's of how this money is allocated. It even adds more to the saddness of the whole situation when our country's government has to spend twice as much just to make a few organizations happy. It also goes to how much we need election reform, including TERM LIMITS! With term limits these instances would be cut drastically if not eliminated.

Uath, I have a feeling you may be right although I hope someone, anyone comes up with a magical plan to get America out of the mess this credit scam(ie housing debaucle)has got us into. I think its a total crime for organizations such a ACORN to get one penny of this so-called stimulis plan much less 5+ billion. It is organizations like ACORN, and ACORN themselves that pushed and intimidated lenders into making loans that they knew or at least believed would never or could never be repaid!

Annie, I agree with your ideas about infrastructure. What I can't see or understand is why people who lean to the left can't see that it is the people with the money that drive the country and its economy, NOT the government and its handout programs! By lowering their taxes (yes, they would have more money, shame, shame)it allows them the opportunity to do what they like to do best--expand. By expanding, viola! The economy GROWS! I know the huge corporations are portrayed as greedy and self serving and that may be true to an extent but, and that is a BIG but, in order to feed their greed and self-servance they HAVE to spend some money and history proves that when they are taxed less they spend more and the economy profits from it just as they do!

Annie, you and I totally agree on infrastructure spending for job creation. The thing is, not everyone does that work. Not everyone is qualified for that work. If you cut taxes on businesses like Walmart, who employ millions of Americans, you open the door for them to hire more people. Every industry is cutting jobs right now to save money. If they are paying less taxes, they'll have money that allows them to keep those workers. Anyone with a pulse can work at Walmart. It takes more than a pulse to build bridges and fix a power grid. Even with training some people are not physically capable of doing that work.

Why hasn't it worked these past eight years under Bush then? I do understand your point to some extent but it's also the middle class, the people who do, or would like to do if they only had a job, the work. The rich can't get by only producing good and services for the rest of the rich. If the middle and lower income people don't have any money to spend there will be need for fewer workers, which means less people with money to spend, etc. Really, I believe it's the middle class that drives the country and the economy and they're the ones who have been getting screwed for years now. One problem I've had with Rush recently, although it's not in the article you linked to, is his constant refrain against giving a "tax cut" to those who don't actually end up paying Federal Income Taxes although they do pay other taxes such as Social Security and Medicare. He's said that's a plot by the Democrats to keep them voting Democratic forever. I don't know what anyone's motives are but to me these are the people who NEED this money and they're the ones who will spend it immediately. They'll buy new clothes they've been doing without, they'll buy more food, they might even go out for dinner or buy something a bit frivolous, but they'll spend money that wouldn't otherwise be spent and there are millions of people in that category. Give a multi-millionaire several thousand extra dollars and what do you think he or she will do with it? It probably won't change his spending habits one bit, it will sit in a bank somewhere or be invested. Annie Annie