Oh yeah, by the way Mari.... speaking of "hate, lies, fear, and division mongers", maybe you should take a quick peek at some of the comments posted about anybody with the last name "Palin", or better yet check out the comments about "Joe the plumber" today. Interesting, isn't it, that those comments aren't coming from "far-right-nuts", but rather the so-called "tolerant, enlightened" left!

It's not "the last 8 years" as many state, it's about the last 45, get a grip.

It's not jut a Republican mess, it's an American mess, Dems are just as guilty, bottom line, 95% of all of them are bums.

What's worse, Charlie Rangel and his misgiving or Larry Craig?
Both hypocrites, both ignorant, one taps his foot, the other taps into the public trough.

If you went up and down both sides of the aisle the arrogance, greed, underhandedness and incompetence would reek from either source.

I wish all the best to the new administration, but with an ineffective body led by Pelosi and Reid feel the deck is really stacked against it.

It is not a scare tactic. It is the ULTIMATE Truth. Our economy is dying from a heart ATTACK. You dont want to wait 2 months before you do something about it.

You MUST have a job that is why it's easy for you to say that.

well, from what I've heard over the last few months, it will be 20 years
before any Republican wins the White House…..We in Houston have a Mayor that is In his 2nd term….and people in Houston would love to have him IN again, if they could…

Don't let this slick salesman have his way. We can't afford all this new spending, new programs, and new debt.

How was your 8 year nap?

If you spent more time listening to Obama before you blast him, you would know he has already called for NO earmarks on this new bill.

You would also know that the 500 is a not a rebate but a reduction in holding taxes until the amount is met.

You ignorant twit, try to stay current and then blast him if you have legit gripe instead of just whining to be whining.

As soon as they had prevented the country from trying to solve a problem, they figured their job was done.

Now Tom in Delaware reminds us of the Conservative recommendation for action: "let the market correct itself the old fashioned way….Bankruptcy."

That is to say, do nothing. After all, every bankruptcy is just a buying opportunity for someone else. Lay off the workers, terminate their benefits, bankrupt their families, repossess their homes, and cut taxes on their employers.

If Conservatives ran the weather department, they would argue that we should not build tornado shelters and levees. After all, let the natural forces of the "free" atmosphere seek balance. It may cause a lot of people to drown, but they made a bad decision about where to live. Why should MY tax money be used to rescue a bunch of losers?

Bush borrowed us into record debt for a war that has destroyed Iraq, completely destabilized the Middle East and basically wrote the terrorist recruitment bible for the next half century. It did NOTHING to pave our way to progress and economic stability, just lined the pockets of Haliburton and others, killed thousands of Americans and Iraqis and, in fact, helped bring our economy down.

Obama's "new programs" that you are complaining about are actually carefully geared towards generating new jobs, new industry and stabilizing the economy. They are not simply handouts. He is trying to get us to pay it forward by making an investment in ourselves instead of the war machine economy. You have to spend money to make money...the difference is spending is wisely.

Reading the comments here by the far-right-nuts, I am convinced they are GOP operatives making mischief.

Its interesting to see the onslaught of hate, lies, fear and division mongers posting on the CNN blogs!

One might think we have accidentally typed in Faux News instead!

Both conservative and liberal economists agree that this stimulus is needed to jump-start the U.S. economy.

Many people posting here have not done their homework. Those oppose to the stimulus do not understand the dire situation our economy is in!

Paul Krugman, Nobel Prize Winner for Economy says, that the stimulus package is necessary or we will face A CERTAIN DEPRESSION.

THANKS GEORGE W. BUSH! Bush came into office during one of the MOST prosperous times in our Nation's history, and is leaving our Nation ........ BANKRUPTED!

YOU CAN'T BLAME CONGRESS SINCE THE DEMS HAVE BEEN IN A SLIGHT MAJORITY FOR ONLY ........TWO......... YEARS.

THE REPUGS WERE IN CONTROL OF CONGRESS FROM JANUARY 1994......... THROUGH........JANUARY 2007!

Does anybody have any actual ideas about what will work? After all, you shouldn't criticize if you don't have any constructive ideas to offer in place of the ones you're ripping up, should you?

We know there's enough loose cash in the US (around $9 trillion) to give the economy the real boost it needs, far more than we can expect the government to raise. What will it take to get more of that private capital into play? What kinds of projects will generate the most jobs of the kinds we need? What kinds of jobs do we need? What are the skills of the people who are falling out of work?

There are lots of details that have to go into this planning, and Obama's people aren't and can't be everywhere. We have plenty of constructive things we could be thinking through, if we want to make a real contribution.

The rest of you, carry on as you were.

That's part of the plan. It's unusual, it won't make Obama many friends in the DNC or DLC, but its what we need.

Instead of doling out checks of $500 or $1,000 why not a tax holiday so it the money isn't taking from us in the first place. Oh wait. that doesn't help those who don't pay into the system but received from the system. Sorry, my mistake! Enjoy surfing the internet!

Don't let this slick salesman have his way. We can't afford all this new spending, new programs, and new debt.

Dear Stop:

What we couldn't afford was the past 8 years. Unfortunately, that is water under the bridge.

To get the economy moving again, someone has to spend money. When the private sector won't or can't, the public sector has to.

I wish we hadn't come to this, but we're here now. Throwing roadblocks in front of the new administration will only prolong the downturn.

If you have a better plan, post it.

My small company gets the contract to change light bulbs in the local post offices (of course maintenance usually handles this, but just for the sake of argument) and we supply the bulbs, now in the past and being this is a 'government' contract with little or no oversight we could charge em 20.00 each for the bulb alone even though they cost us 0.50. If on the other hand this information was available to the public and local media that we were ripping off the public, there would be a mob with torches and pitchforks at our door.

You get my drift here? How do you think we ended up paying 600.00 for a toilet seat and 5.00 for a nail? We'll see what happens soon enough but this attitude of contractors has got to stop and when done in the light of day, it just might.

One more thing, for God's sake, don't give these contracts to Haliburton or KBR (Kellog, Brown & Root).

I'm just saying....

WHAT IS THE ALTERNATIVE?!?!?!

Can you answer this question before you bash the guy for having a plan?

As a person 55 years old I can honestly say from experience that throwing more borrowed money into the Pot doesn't solve the problem!

We need to shrink government spending not increase it at a rate that will have my granddaughter’s children still paying the Tab!

Where are the Smart Folks and why aren't they being listened to?

At this point I think Congress would serve the citizens best by giving each family two packets each of every kind of seeded food.....
at least when there is nothing left they can eat.

How do you save a job? You don't need a plan, just order the company I work for to stop firing people. You'll be the president soon so they have to do what you say, right?

Once again, hypocritical to the fifth power.

All the haters who are against this idea just because they don't like who proposed it need to give their new president a chance before they criticize, or at least be willing to admit publicly that they were wrong when this idea does work.

January 8th, 2009 8:27 am ET

Yet he defers to Bush on the middle east crisis. What a coward
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Would you prefer that he focus his attention on the middle east crisis when we are facing a possible Depression? He's not even in office yet. I'll bet you gave Bush a lot more wiggle room, though. You are a coward, because I'll bet that you wouldn't say half of that to anyone's face who had a different opinion, and neither would those goons over at Fox you listen to.

Don't let this slick salesman have his way. We can't afford all this new spending, new programs, and new debt.
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News flash: Many CONSERVATIVE economists believe he's on the right track this time. In most cases you'd be right, but this one is special. Even Bush himself agrees. He admits that capitalism has, at least temporarily, stopped working.

Think about this: Normally, you wouldn't think of electrocuting yourself. But when you have a heart attack, that's exactly what they do – they electrocute you. It's called a defibrillator. And that's what this economy needs.

He'e explained time over time that there is only one president at a time. As sensative an issue the Middle East conflict is, it is still on George Bushs' watch. The economy also is on his watch, but that is a serious domestic problem which can not be neglected because if it is, the markets will suffer. It's progressive that Obama is pushing his economic stimulus plan now so there won't be a hold up once he takes office. Give the man a break.