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JB if you do not pay income taxes then why should you get income tax cuts? I guess you really want a hand out instead of working either more than one job to take care of your family or hard enough to get yourself promoted to a higher paying job or work something that requires physical labor and does pay well like construction. I also see you think the Senior Citizen Drug Program was a waste of money and more aids money to Africa than anyone else has given was also a waste. Ron Paul was right about this bill as they dropped the most important part to get Americans jobs and that is E-Verify requirements for employers to put Americans on the jobs not illegal immigrants. Also on education, here in B'ham the inner city schools are poor schools but they have enough money to pay for 3 times more administrators per student than the suburbs school systems. They built a 50 million dollar high school and the biggest complaint was it did not have 2 football fields, 2 basketball courts, 2 baseball diamonds, and seperate weight rooms for athletes from regular students like the suburb schools have. My oldest went to an inner city school in Norfolk, Va. for 2 years while I was stationed there and the biggest problem we found was the majority of students' attitude about working hard to learn, instead they threatened my son for making them look bad. I bet CNN will not publish this one!

Any chance we could get a response from Dennis Kucinich, or does CNN only provide space to stimulus critics?

Ron Paul is the only real conservative left. That being said, I don't think tax cuts are the answer to everything.

And We The People should listen to you because???

One of the senators at the hearing on Saturday showed research and charts that said the stimulus is going to create jobs, but that the 1 trillion cost overall (after interest gets figured in) averages to being approximately $300,000 per job created.

My recommendation is that they scrape that crazy plan. Seriously, who in their right mind thinks it should cost taxpayers $300,000 for every job created.

I never liked Ron Paul. I always saw him as an opinionated, sanctimonious ultra conservative in Republicans clothing. His supporters remind me of the star struck Obama supporters who claim the President can do no wrong.

I agree with Paul on this issue though. The package is pure spending and needs to focus more on JOB CREATION than funding programs that won't generate jobs at all.

GOP caved in? If anything it was Obama and the cowardly Dems who cut billions targeted to education. US schools are falling apart, education is the future of america and that is what the Dems cut. I am already sick of Obama, what an F-in coward.

Go get'm Ron. Those senators are toast come reelection time...oh, and Maine, you just lost some repeat business in the tourism arena for their behavior too!

For the past 8 years, the republican administration, with help from all the republican lawmakers, spent this country into a hole! Billions were spent, that brought no return at all to the country and the american people. The proposal on the table by President Obama is one that requires spending, but it is "investing" money, not throwing it away. It is government spending to create jobs, which will help those who need help the most...the working people of this country. The same "outlaws" that helped Bush throw away billions of our taxpayer's dollars, now want us to believe that they are sincerely concerned about the same people they help to put out of work and on the street. The tax cuts "they" propose, are tax cuts for those who have homes (plural), income and even substantial savings. Also they propose tax cuts for the same corporations that have been receiving breaks from the government for decades, as they have outsourced millions of jobs to increase their profits. Americans, please wake up and support your current president, and help him stop the madness! Read and research the proposals on both sides and don't be fooled by the "shell game" of the politicians. Pressure your elected officials to do what's good and right for ALL of america, not just for those who HAVE and want to keep on getting richer. The future of the entire country and generations to come is at stake.

Ron Paul would have us be like Mexico if he could. We see how well that has worked for the Mexican people.

This should have been titled
Ron Paul: Blames Republicans too for this mess !!!

If Americans really cared what Republicans thought right now, they would be in control. Enough said.

Those are exactly the type of remarks I would expect from the obstructionist Republicans who are more worried about 'politics" then taking care of the huge economic meltdown that the US economy is in right now.

Blasting others instead of ideas, accusations instead of constructive conversations. Blaming instead of offering alternatives that could be agreed upon by everyone.

Blaming their own for trying instead of turning up their sleeves and helping.

I just don't understand how people like this can look themselves in the mirror in the morning. Don't you care???

And one last thing...we know things your momma doesn't even want you to know, LOL!!!!

Don't you love me momma...don't you love me, LOL!!

You're thinking is tired and outdated Mr Paul.

It's easy to criticize but so far I haven't heard of a counter-proposal that presents better solutions.

Well, well, will you look at that. Looks like someone came out of his cave...

I wanna remind the GOP something if they can remember...I don't know if you recall but do you guys remember how they were during the VERY first financial crisis when former President Bush called on to action? You know, is funny because I did read yesterday that Steele said that many GOP members have many ideas that Dems left during the process BUT what I found interesting is he never said what it was. I just wanna guess...did they suspend their time with their families so they can work in Congress just like Senator McCain did at that time?? You know, let alone this is the same party that only a few of them voted for the president's bill and now all of a sudden, they got ideas?? I find it amusing considering only a few listen to the former president and now, you think they'll listen to my boy?? This is the same party making bold statements during the election and now, they wanna be bold?? I see, I see. While at the same time they did their former President bogus and now, they are the party of values?? You know, we got some advice for them...remember what happen to Senator McCain during the election?? So many mistakes since the beginning and so many mistakes in the long term. Let's just say I'm just gonna repeat what a Conservative friend from Alabama said...is one thing if you can't even run an election but is another thing if you can't learn from your mistakes...*wink* *wink*

And by the way, one last thing, some conservatives over here are wondering what Rush had to say about Steele? I mean, come on, Rush didn't said nothing about him?? I see, I see...I'm pretty sure that explains it all...

Words well said Mr Paul. Thanks, and here's hope more will understand what you are saying

republicans are not for the average hard working family, they are for the RICH and only for the RICH, our childrens education is of NO importance to them, they don't care that so many of us are out of jobs and homeless, it's of no concern to the republicans if there are so many hungry, and unable to provide proper food for their families, THEY COULD CARE LESS IF WE HAVE ANY HEALTH CARE,they like to use us when it's in their best interest, but deep down we are a mere inconvenience.

TAX CUTS DO NOT WORK!!! I THINK REPUBLICANS ACT STUPID ON PURPOSE!

Just like President Obama said: A stimulus package IS a spending package. Can Mr. Paul give me the definition of a stimulus package?

Personally, I think the Democrats "caved in" for allowing the school reconstruction package to be cut. How is hiring workers to repair and renovate crumbling schools not stimulative?

The bathrooms in the school where I teach are closed down every day because the plumbling is literally 120 years old. The same is true of hundreds of city schools throughout the nation.

Congress continues to leave our children behind.

Did anyone tell Paul he got about 1% of the vote?

How dare Senators Collins and Snowe stand up to the Republican establishment? How dare they but the well-being of their constituents above party orthodoxy?

They care that's why. That's why Susan Collins won in a year where Republcans lost everywhere. She is a human being first and a Republican second. You ididots out there can feel free to bad mouth her though. Make her mad enough and she might join the blue team.

vote your concious – i just hope everybody understands what they are voting for or against – and not just "ideology"!!

Ron Paul, is not looking at things from a reality based perspective, it is a far from perfect world. He might consider finding that perfect world and running for office there!