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pvel July 5th, 2009 5:59 pm ET

I would rather have the Democrats in charge than the Republicans. Remember, this economic mess was caused by Bush for 8 years with a Republican Congress and Senate for 6 of the 8 years. Th Democrats are trying to fix the mess. I would give them a chance. It has been just 6 short months.
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WRONG WRONG WRONG WRONG

George W. Bush had a high GDP, low taxes and low unemployment for his first 6 years. That was when the Repubs were in the majority.

Enter the Dems for the last 2 years and everything went down the toilet.

So, you have the same president, but different majorities. One majority did well, the other did poor. How is George the problem?

Oh yeah, sorry. That is the democratic answer to cover for Obama's stupidity. It goes "uhhhhh, uhhhh (helps when you use a teleprompter), George did it."

pvel July 5th, 2009 5:59 pm ET

I would rather have the Democrats in charge than the Republicans. Remember, this economic mess was caused by Bush for 8 years with a Republican Congress and Senate for 6 of the 8 years. Th Democrats are trying to fix the mess. I would give them a chance. It has been just 6 short months.
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How do you figure? You're not very educated are you?

George W. Bush's for 6 years in office showed a tremendous GDP, low unemployment, low taxes and a great overall economy. That was with the Republican in control.

George W. Bush's last 2 years showed a decline in all areas. That was with the Democrats in control.

Same president, different folks in the majority for making/passing bills. So, who is the problem exactly?

Both sides of this argument are idiots. You revere your party as if it were a religion and can do no wrong. This is how wars start!

We vote for buying things (ie, bullet train system) without a way written to pay for it. At the same time, we vote down any taxes (ie. its revenue).

You wonder why we are bankrupt, so there you go. You want to eat your cake, and get a tax break for it too.

I dare you to give me an alternative to raise money for these projects aside from taxes. I also dare you to claim government interventions are bad, all the meanwhile, the past 30 years the governments backs off the financial district and allowing the sleazy people to put us in the situation we are in today.

Are the insane liberals done slobbering all over Satan Obama yet? When the world ends because we elected the devil as our leader, I hope you tree huggers will be happy. Commie scum.

Karen – Missouri July 5th, 2009 4:12 pm ET
How funny. First the whiny Republicans tried to block the stimulus now they're crying it's not spent fast enough. What planet do the Republicans come from anyway? The more any of them open their mouths the sillier they sound!
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No Karen, what's funny is you forgetting the dems are disappointed as well! That is unless you intentionally left that part out!!

I don't think there is any way for the stimulus money to go any faser. To quote Obama the idea was to put out big chunks of money and let it trickle down to main street. I thought that he sounded like a hypocrite by using the term trickle down when he has been so critical of trickle down economics. My point is that by using the thousand layers of government to filter the money on its way down, there is no way for it to move faster, nor will any be left at the end because government beurocracies and lots of layers of them cost a fortune. It will be all absorbed for nothing but piles of statistical reports stacked in a government wharehouse.

Mr President...continue on. These two clowns were a part of the DC scene as this whole debacle developed.

Some of you people are such idiots. If you have even 1/2 a brain you would know that nothing moves fast and that being in office 5 + months is not enough time to solve problems that took 8 years to create. Also, knock off the crap about how tired you are of President Obama and the Democrats always blaming President Bush for the mess we are in. No matter how you try to spin it, it is his fault and nothing will ever change that. Btw–the country is not against President Obama. It is just the same people who will never accept him as President and they just want the rest of us to believe that their few numbers add up to many. Grow up and try to help instead of always preaching your doom and gloom.

How do I get one of those lucrative ACORN franchises? Money in them thar hills!

One of the main reasons why there is no money to create the private sector jobs that Republicans say they want, is because their greedy executive friends are using company profite to make themselves filthy rich.

If Republicans like John Boehner really want to see private sector jobs created, they need to convince their multi-millionare executive friends to take serious reductions in their compensation packages in order to free up the money necesary to create those private sector jobs.

The only country built overnight was biblical Jericho. This is not biblical Jericho. This real country and its economy were destroyed way before Obama come to office. I happen to be one of the millions whose job is saved if not created. So democrats stand up for your principal and defend your President. Stand by him so you can see progress and change. He never promises that he will do it alone. He promised that together "WE" not "I" can bring change. Don’t under estimate the public intelligence.

Just want to remind everyone, our nation debt is 11.5 TRILLIONS.. Last administration contributed more than 5 trillions to our debt.

"You need to stop thinking the ghost of Reagan is going to fix things. Trickle down is what has put us where we are. As the rich got richer, they created jobs—-in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China. Now, we need adults to fix the problem. Whine all you want right wingers, your ideas are bankrupt."

The funny thing is it took Reagan a good 3 years to fix the economy. Unemployment reached almost 11 percent before things turned around.

"Unemployment is RISING which it shouldn't be if this stupid stimulus program were working….

Obama says we will have 10% unemployment like it's a good thing….
why isn't he taking steps to ensure that it doesn't reach 10%?????

Because he has no clue how to fix the economy…..Obama is ONE and DONE…."

Oh the ignorance!

The economy has gotten better under Obama. Where is was going into free fall in late 2008 it is now much more stable currently. Everthing from the housing market, manufacturering and GDP is preforming better now than it was prior. Even the job market is doing better. The first quarter of 09 we averaged around 600,000 to 700,000 jobs lost per month but in the 2nd it was down to around 400,000 or so per month. The economy is going to take to turn around.

I actually agree with Boehner this time. Not something I can usually say. The stimulus plan needs to create more private sector jobs, and it needs to happen soon. Both Congressmen have a valid point, in my opinion. This comes from someone who doesn't like the leaders of Congress very much.

Obama should have rescind Bush's tax cut this year instead of letting it expire next year. I want to see the same Obama supporters what they will say. I had to pay AMT during Clinton years when I was making middle income. I want to see the same Obama middle income earners pay the AMT as well. Maybe they would not whine about Bush's tax cut.

after reading the dem responses,everything is bush'e fault,boy are we in trouble.I would take 14000 in the staock market and bush over this
mess any day.good bye good ol day,its sad to see obama ruin the country this way and see the kool aid drinker follow, get you cups filled dem.

News Flash, genius, without the infusion it would have been much worse. Look at a chart of the creeping unemployment rate, how it is in a very straight trajectory up, and it is decisively knocked off-course after Obama had been in Office. It made a very clear and pronounced shift in direction. Granted, unemployment is still going up, there can be no question about that. However, had it not been for changes that Obama made, and plans that he implemented, it would be well over 10 percent umemployment rate, easily. If Bush had continued to be in Office, and if the trend that he had in place when he was in Office was allowed to continue, the unemployment rate would be up over 12 percent right now. That's a fact. This coming from a die-hard Republican. I can't believe I'm sticking up for Obama, much less ever advocating balooning debt, one thing I have always been strongly opposed to. But, there is no question that Obama's policies helped soften the blow of the hard landing that we were in on a collision course during the Bush Administration.

Obama is the master of lies. He pushed this bill through saying we needed it right then and the bill was passed based on that. Once the bill was passed, the urgency he lead congress to believe was so vital never materialized.

Who is going to repay all of this reckless spending? As an Independent middle income family, I am going to be left with the responsibility of bailing out YOUR IRRESONSIBILITY. 11.4 trillion deficiit. All of you briliant college students who voted for Obama will enjoy being slaves the rest of your life.

Watch the pendulum swing. Republicans had majority control and we have one set of problems. Now Democrats have majority control and we can see a whole different set of problems coming up the pike.

Sounds to me like none of those jokers have any meaningful answers.

If I had employees that behaved like our Congressmen do all but perhaps a dozen and a half of them would be bounced out on their backsides looking for new jobs.

We keep re-electing these jokers, they lie, cheat, steal and fail, and then we reward them by re-electing them again. Until we fire these incompetents we will have this pendulum swinging...between Republican-caused problems and Democrat-caused problems....and all GOVERNMENT-caused problems.

Economic is ninty percent mental and ten percent reality. So long people continue to believe the economy will get better it will because they will buy and sell goods.

To be a Republican is to be one of the most frightened people on the face of the Earth.

the president is just too smart for all you hot-heads ... mr. obama knew from the get go that the markets thrive on perception as much they thrive on facts and figures. dangling the $787B carrot was intended to create jobs of course, but more to build confidence that things were being stabilized. in 2 months when the markets regain full confidence, mr. obama would have spent a mere 15% of the $787B ... he will put the remaining 85% back into the coffers and have the repubs and other naysayers running on empty!!

Yes, Bush did run up the deficit to over $600 billion, but in 6 months, the president has raised it to almost 2 trillion. Spending will not help, restraint of spending from congress down to the consumer needs to be held within their means!! Not homes for everyone!!

The dems are totally mismanaging the economy. That stimulus bill is a joke. It is more a political payback than REAL stimulus. They spent 7% of 797 billion dollars or 55 billion already and it has done NOTHING. We are already winning the issue. Obama is already in negative territory and Republicans are more trusted than dems on handling the economy.

These are very complicated problems we are dealing with. They will not be fixed overnight! Republicans are so small minded. It will take a couple of years to see the benefits not four months-geesh!! And what are the whiners doing to help out? I took my tax cut and invested it which is what people should be doing!!

Republicans are always giving Regan for the fall of the Berlin Wall. It did fall 2 and a half years after he said it!

Now let's give President Obama 2.5 years after he said he would improve the economy!

The stimulus plan was suppose to create some jobs through construction on the country's infrastructure, such as roads. During a recent trip, I saw several signs that indicated various construction projects were being funded by the stimulus plan. That may be a good thing. However, the vast majority of these jobs are temporary.

In addition, the official unemployment rate is now at 9.5 percent. However, I have been told that number does not count the numerous people who are no longer eligible for unemployment benefits. So the actual rate is probably much higher.

Well, the House and Senate drafted the bill, negotiated it down to suit the republicans, so unless they didn't read the bill, I guess they should know what the bill provided for and when. They are willing to blame President Obama for the watered down result, which was called by Krugman, "about right" in terms of amount of money, but flawed in other respects. That is what happens when you negotiate with the repubs, who put more tax cuts in it. Dems, take a lesson, on healthcare and energy, boycott republican influence.

Are there any OBJECTIVE minds out there anymore?
Everyone is just looking for a door to crack to criticize a political opponent.
The economy is not great, but the outlook is better than it was 6 months ago.
And GWB is NOT completely responsible for the recession!
He was twice elected, people turned their heads when he embarked on war #2, and we all need to take a little responsibility for ourselves!

If you dont like the decisions your leaders are making then EDUCATE yourself.
It would not have taken a high school diploma in middle east politics to have known Operation Iraqi Freedom was a huge blunder...

Congressman Boehner needs to stop. He is always talking and saying nothing. He said nothing when former President Bush had a failed and flawed stimulus plan and nothing happened. He said nothing when Bush had 8 years of failed economic growth!!!

People on this blog should get their facts straight. The economic mess began under Clinton; with his Budget Advisor Barney Frank named by CNN as one of the top 10 culprits for this mess.

Bush with Greenspan perpetuated the mess. And now Obama is making it worse with his zany ideas and flip flopping on his promises, as many expected would happen. Jobs and deficit are getting significantly worse. Obama tried to cany coat everything in order to get the votes; while McCain as telling it as it is., being straight with the people.

Just answer one question – WHERE ARE THE JOBS. This stimulus package is the SCAM of the Century. This is worse than Madoff.

I'm 63 and I remember politics as both parties trying to better the US.....now after the last 16 years of first Clinton hating and then Bush hating, US citizens are just prone to attack, hate and detest the other party's members.

no way to pull out of what the past two, yes I blame our current mess on both Clinton (NAFTA and giving our technology to the Chinese) and Bush (basically unregulated greed allowed by corporations).........

so, let's all stop spewing hatred toward the architects of the last 16 years here in our great country, pull together and let's work to get this mess straightened out for our children and grandchildren.

Boehner always says what won't work, but nothing about what will work.
Change our trade laws and bring some jobs home. Stop all trade with Honduras now. Make Wall Street honest again. Fair trade is fine, but our trade laws are totally ignored. Enforce what laws we have now, then re-think trade in general.

Bunch of whiners. Most of the stimulus money haven't gone out yet less thru the economy. When it does millions of jobs will be created. It's innevitable.

You Obamabots need to wake up and understand basic economics. First of all, you can't redistribute the wealth and expect small businesses to take the tax burden and continue to hire. Number two, Obama's love for the unions is bringing this country down faster than anything. I'll give you an example. I had equipment removed from a factory, my quote from union labor was $28,000. My quote for the same job from non union labor was $3,500. See the point. If you want to buy from Walmart you better think twice. They buy from China, Why?
Non union cheap labor. You can't compete with the union in any marketplace unless you pay through the roof for the products they make!

Welcome to the Obama depression! The economy was much better under Bush, and it's time for the media to truthful about that. Things turned sour when it started looking like the socialist Obama might get elected and trash the economy, which is exactly what he has done.

It's time for liberals to admit their philosophy and president are an abject failure. The Bush administration created real jobs in the private sector and the highest home ownership rate ever. The Obama administration has created nothing but government waste and a nation of foreclosures as people lose their jobs. These are the facts and they are undeniable.

Obama, who is not even truly a US citizen (he has no official birth certificate) needs to be impeached now!

You have been complaining about president Obama before he became president. Tell me if spending $12B/mo in Irak since 2003 is YOUR INVESTMENT? Remember, beside the $12B for Irak, you need to spend more money for Afghanistan, "friendly" Arabic countries like Egypt, Jourdan, Yemen, Qatar... How are we paying for the war of choice? Spending $124B per year to contain 20 millions people while we can't spend $35B for our children insurance,,,, it is "real patriotic"...

it isn't working.

@pvel: "I would rather have the Democrats in charge than the Republicans."

Why does the choice have to be limited to just one of those two parties? Isn't it possible that someone from outside the same old worn out, never-particularly-successful, philosophies would do a better job?

As for who caused the mess, let us not forget that Robert Rubin and Bill Clinton pushed the repeal of the law that restrictred investment banks. The stimulus will help in time, but blaming the mess solely on Bush is a bit off the mark.

The similarities between this decade and the 1970s are astounding: war protests, oil crisis, etc. Obama = Carter. The good news is what comes next.

BTW, for those of you who are still in a blind fit of rage at Bush, if Bush is responsible for this recession then Clinton was responsible for the 2000-02 recession. You can't have it both ways.

Mr. Joshua – quite the untrue and false post that of yours... The Republicans wanted to debate with the new POTUS? Really? When?
Oh, sorry, I can recall now that they appeared on TV once or twice with 'alternatives' to the presidency plans about the economy, but none of them was worth a complete look due to their incredibly vagueness! No real deal alternative, with NUMBERS to back it up, was offered by the GOP, except whines and smears...
And I stand by and support what the ECONOMISTS says about the ECONOMY; at the better scenario possible, things will get less bad this year and start to get back to what they were before the crisis in the next one... not what a bunch of whiners who dared to present an economic plan WITHOUT NUMBERS IN IT has to!

"First they are against the stimulus then its not being spent fast enough."

I don't see the hypocrisy here. People can be against something but want it be efficient if it is passed. Most conservatives were against the "stimulus" from the very beginning. However, it passed and there is nothing that can be done to change it. The only thing that can be done now is make sure that money is used efficiently. A good example of this is the Department of Education. Conservatives really do not like it. However, since it is impossible to get rid of, they are trying to find ways to make it an efficient system. I see no hypocrisy here and people really need to think before making statements like this above.

Let's see Bush had eight years to mess up this country and I didn't hear any of the Conservative Christians or Republicans hold Bush accountable for all of the sins he committed while in the White House.

It took eight years for Bush and Cheney to run this country into the ground and it'll take decades to put this country on the right track.

Think about this; You go to your doctor and find out that you have cancer. You don't know whether the treatment that he administers will work, but yet you'll take the medication to rid your body of the disease so that you'll live.

The only sure fire thing that will work is putting our trust in Jesus Christ because he'll neither forsake you nor leave you.

Once people begin to do this than they will be a lot better off.

No such thing as a Conservative Christian. Either you're a Christian or your not.

Like much of the country Ohio is in terrible need of jobs. The tax stipulations here for business are unfriendly–NCR(dayton) is leaving for Georgia, along with several others to other destinations. States really need to look at their tax codes for businesses so that they will not leave any given state with a mass exodus of companies. The stimulus bill needs to include fair taxes for businesses as well as "creating jobs" across the country and also within the state governments. It's not a matter of spending it fast it's a matter of it needs to create permanent jobs no matter what party wins the battle.

Typical CNN comments. Nothing but Obama hate and Obama praise. From the looks of it majority of people leaving comments don't know what they are talking about. Why is it so hard for people to be fair and in the middle. Why is everything about democrat or republican. Why do some only criticize Obama like he hasn't done anything right and why do some only praise Obama like he hasn't made a mistake. People act like there is only one side to be on.

I ask the GOP naysayers: what is YOUR plan? More tax cuts? Guess what, Bush II already tried that, repeatedly, and he still ended up with less jobs at the end of his first four years than when he began! Your plan is even worse!

Boehner et al says that the jobs that have been created so far aren't legit because they aren't in the private sector. I don't think anybody in their right mind who needs to put food on the table cares about that. Obviously Boehner has never had that problem.

And for those crying about how the government has usurped some of the prerogatives that the private sector used to have, you need to remember that it is the basket case private sector that got us into this situation in the first place. Without Obama and gov't spending, you are right that we wouldn't be in a recession – we'd be in a depression instead

Bush Jr., at the end of his first four years had a job deficit. Where was the GOP outrage about that? FOUR YEARS! With his republican lackeys in Congress helping him! Now only after a few months they're getting impatient with Obama? Partisan hypocrisy!

Fun fact: 3/4 of everything you own is borrowed! That's how much of the economy is the national debt! But of course the two parties always blame the other one for it. Where was the outrage when Reagan trippled the national debt? Where was the outrage when Bush Jr. doubled it? Let's face it, your 'tax cut' on deficit spending is an oxymoron. Your job, your income were built on debt to begin with. Afterwards you had the face to ask for more tax cuts saying that it's 'your money.' Well, it's not. It was borrowed to begin with. And now you dare ask for even more borrowing for your children to repay because you want a tax cut for yourself! Because you're selfish! And hypocritically you also dare to blame others for your children's burden! Put your money where your big mouth is and pay back the loan you got this economy on to begin with!

I should have said silly slogan chanting politicians. Republicans certainly like their slogans as much as the Democrats.

oh come on..give obama some time...we waited 8 years to screw this country and cannot wait more than 6 months to fix it?

Here's GOP hypocrisy for you. When Bush Jr. passed tax break after tax break, it didn't work for two years. Only after the Fed lowered interest rates enough did the economy pick back up again. Now the GOP demands a stimulus to work within a few months! Where was this impatience with the last president? Nowhere! Partisan hypocrisy, nothing else!

Attention Obamabots,

Many have you stated that Obama was handed a lump of coal from GWB. In that respect, I agree. However, if Obama truly had the qualifications to actually personally handle Executive level decisions, then he wouldn't be complaining so much about an Administration that is gone, long gone. Maybe Bamster is blaming the "lump of coal" because he has absolutely no idea on what to do? A true American President would NOT complain as much as TOTUS (Teleprompter of the United States) does about the previous Administration. The occasional jab at the onset of a new Administration to the old is acceptable, but to continue to lament for months and months and months shows nothing more than publically stating you are in over your head and need to blame someone else for your inability to fix the issues at hand.

Georgo Soros, you got what you paid for. You bought the White House and the United States recieved a puppet.

we need another stimulus!!!!

As an ardent follower of all North American news and politics, my initial feeling was that Obama would be good for the USA. However, that exuberance has disappeared based on the apparent corruption and self-serving formats he has endorsed of tax-payer dollars. Wake up America...Obama is no better than Bush...maybe even worse, I hate to say...because the devil you know really is better than the devil you don't....Obama just looks better and speaks more lucidly, but Obama still goes with the same Wall Street language and ties to Rich Vested Interest Groups. Ever wonder where all the BIG money came from for his campaign? Think about it before trusting your Prez implicitly. Nothing will change without a radical restructuring of your political system (fat chance to see that happen), and just like Katrina the $$$$$$$ won't ever see the light of day for the common citizen of the USA....it just somehow disappears into a dark abyss that nobody ever sees and fears to look too deep into. He's ill equipped and ill prepared to deal with problems of the immense scope the USA faces today. Maybe a nice guy but an ' establishment puppet' prez nonetheless.

I have to agree with both of the Congressmen quotes in this article. Yes, it needs to be spent faster, and there has already been speculation of ANOTHER stimulus package in the future. It seems like they are going to attempt to pass another stimulus before the first one is spent. Seeing as the job market has continually gotten worse, I think Obama may be digging himself into a hole. We need results. Lastly, these jobs that Obama is creating seem to all be for temporary projects! What happens when the high speed rail line is finished? Where do those jobs go?

Wow, almost every post on this board is from some GOP know-nothing. Did you spin meisters even read the article. It says that almost none of the stimulus money has been spent yet. Hence, oh brilliant ones, it has not yet been able to stimulate anything. Duh!!!!

Are you following this? It's not difficult.

P.S. I do wish that the money could have been put into play faster/earlier. Let's be honest, though; the GOP geniuses are going to be sifting through the expenditures looking for $500 toilet seats or whatever, so I suppose extreme oversight is a good idea (I mean, we all know how important government oversight is to Republicans, cough, cough).

If the government had gave the money directly to the people, I bet this economy would not be in this situation. Obama your failing.

You can "spend" as much money as you want and not create jobs. Ask Bernie Madoff. It all depends on WHERE that money ends up. From recent government experiments with job outsourcing, corporate mismanagement, golden parachutes, and a host of other social ills, we can all be pretty darn sure this 800 billion WILL NOT end up back in the hands of the US taxpayer. My guess it that more than 50% of it will leave the United States forever.

Take care of that cavity Steny,not the one in your tooth,the one in your head.hahaha

I'm very concerned at how slowly stimulus money is going out to the states. Here in California, we are cutting so much out of the budget that it will take decades for us to recover, yet no stimulus money has come. As a result, our budget to repair levees and the delta has been slashed to ridiculous levels....even though the Army Corps of Engineers has rated our levees to be in worse shape than in New Orleans.

I'm shocked to hear Biden say that the money was planned to be spent over the next 18 months...if so, why were states scrambling to come up with "shovel ready" projects that could go to bid within 90 days? Well, 90 days have come and gone, and no bids have been awarded here in California for big projects that will put thousands of people back to work.

We're desperate!

The President appears to be losing a bit of public support right now because of the high unemployment numbers. Before Republican politicians begin to rejoice, they must ask themselves : what is their fall back strategy when the economy begins to rebound and employment figures begin to go up? I remind them that only about 10 per cent of the stimulus money has been allocated. Therefore, the Obama adminstration must ditch the rather wooley argument about misreading the extent of the problem"that sounds more like excusses and lack of proper insight and homework. The President, and the administration, must insist that we will get a better picture of program's effectiveness only after about at least 60 per cent of the stimulus money has been allocated or spent. Here one must ask: Is Vice-President Biden the right man for this"is he getting the money out quickly enough? The adminstration had initially presented a compelling argument that speed was of essence in approving the stimulus package. Why the delay now in getting the money out? The adminstration will ultimately lose its credibility on the other big ticket items if public perception continues to erode. Republican Party politicians seem better at fraiming the issues to their advantage and they work with the best public relations firms. Democrats must realize that in politics perception is everything. They are in a public relations war with their opponents. They cannot afford to lose this war when so much that is important remains to be done!

Quit printing counterfeit money and let they economy take care of itself. Keep the demon-crats hands and the repubbies hands out of the till. Economy is like seasons it goes in cycles unless a bunch of criminal politicians get ahold of it.

Still seeing the posts blaming 8 years of Bush for the current situation: One more time: The economy did not falter and was still plugging along as I remember, even after 9/11. The demise came with the housing market collapse brought on by Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac, this was in about the last two years of the Bush Administration. During which time the Democrats controlled both the House and Senate. Special thanks for the condition of our economy needs to go out to: Obama, Barney Frank, Franklin Raines, Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Maxine Waters,SEC, ICE and of course ACORN. Please, before you continue to blame the Bush Administration for this alone, do some homework. Believe me, there is enough blame to go around for all, the question should be why on earth would anyone in our country want to expand government giving these idiots more power and more of your money?

I didn't vote for Obama. However, I do think it's too early to judge the stimulus plan. In about a year and a half we'll have a more accurate idea of how it's all working.

As for Obama being reelected or not, he's much more at risk his second term if the Republicans come up with a strong candidate this time, and not someone who's "turn" it is (McCain). They were fools not to nominate Romney or Huckabee last time.

But there's one simple rule that's apparently been accurate 100% of the time since the early part of the 1900s: If there is job growth in the second quarter of the year of the presidential election, the incumbent party wins. If there is job loss in that quarter, the incumbent party loses.

Every night I can go to bed with a clear conscience knowing that I didn't vote for Obama. Spend the money faster! Sure, that way they can push through another useless stimulus bill. I would like to see hard figures on exactly how many permanent jobs the stimulus has created. What's really sad is that very few of the jobs that may be created are manufacturing or white collar jobs which is what this country really needs.

Obama is absolutely clueless as to what he is doing.

Everything I read here tells me why our economy is failing. Everyone is ready to point fingers and say this person is at fault or that person is at fault. The fact is this country is gluttonous. This whole country is at fault. The president only make policies or signs bills and passes them into law. Then it is the President's responsibility to make sure that the right people are in place to see that the laws are carried out.

The fact is this wasn't Bushes fault or Obama's fault. It started long before they came in office. How this country has a short term memory. The debts go back years and years ago.

And the fact is the people want more and more so they borrow more and spend more. So the whole society is in debt by trillions of dollars.

I will give the President credit for this though. The President is over taxing society as a whole. When I say the President, I mean the President in general. For all the President's have taxed society. Not just Obama. However Obama is not helping any.

Its a sure thing that whenever there is an option to post comments on political ticker articles, the thread will be filled with mostly unintelligent drivel from lemmings on the left. If people judged our system of public education by the perspectives offered on these threads, we'd all want it privatized and the country would be moving to the right.

It was wrong when BUSH started this and we had to do it TODAY or our economy would be GONE!!! Then we find out all the special pork that was attached (arrows booze solar) Then AIG we had to do this and the AUTO companies. Then OBAMA starts AIG AUTOS BANKS . Then our elected congressman & senators vote on these bills that they don't read add pork to and stick the taxpayers for generations with the bill. I know OBAMA won @53% but no one listens to the taxpayers that don't agree with the administration. Now we unemployment at 10% healthcare which the vast majority are pleased with their plan and don't want to spend trillions to only cover a third and many that are ILLEGAL. Also in this health care bill CONGRESS will keep their plan but force the American citizen to pay more get less so we all can be EQUAL. Do you think that the surgery that Senator Kennedy recieved would be available to you under the OBAMA PLAN??? I hope the53% and others look into these plans see the errors of the GOV'T and demand an accountin and change so we still be the UNITED STATES OF AMERICA and not a European or Canadian country. Please take back our country

here is the real solution to the economy and government. get rid of all republicans and democrats. vote them out of all offices and vote in your blue collar workers that actually earn a living, pay taxes and are affected by what is going on. the republicans allowed our good jobs to go over seas and the democrats want to spend what we don't have. time for hard working people to take control of our government and create real solutions to the problems that affect 98% of us. vote for independent canidates who work in the real world and can balance their own budget to make ends meet instead of washington raised party members.

mr Boehner if your president BUSH had been honest and told the American people that we were in a recession in the beginning maybe Our Potus
OBAMA would have been able to do his job better. I think in all honesty
what we the American people should do is stop listening to any republican and vote all of you out of office. You have no ideas or
plans all you do is criticize and point finger at others people and say no.
As for the Democrates we need to vote in people with ball because none of you have any. You all (democrates) are so afraid of republicans and what they are going to say about you.
Mr President Obama we hired you to do a job. You have our premission to do that job stop waiting on republican approval. The approval you need is the american publics.
Thank you.

Frankly, the Democrats should GROW UP!!!

Did any of them HONESTLY BELIEVE the economic crisis would be solves this QUICKLY!!!

And none of them are exactly HELPLESS or BLAMELESS in this crisis.

If they devoted as much time to dealing with and its causes as closely as they protected their own political hides, we wouldn't be in this fix.

They should stop complaining about what hasn't worked and find out what will. That is why they're there in the first place... to look after Americans not themselves.

I see alot of people saying Bush did this and that. One guy says Bush spent 700 bil. So Obamas 800 is ok? I thought this guy campaigned on change. Wasting our money is never ok. The stimulus was a joke. The best was to cut unemployment is to lower the payroll tax. Companies will hire more people. Reagan did it and it worked. And before you say "wait I'm a liberal, I don't agree with anything he did" just remember your man Clinton did the same thing that got the economy in the 90s moving. So socialistic spending and tax during a recession is not the best way to do it. PS before you group me and call me a republican or crazy conservative, I voted for Gore, Bush and McCain and 2 dem senators (Durbin and Nelson) 2 states because I moved.

Biden says "we mis-read the economy?!" All they had to do is open their eyes and ears, every economist in the Nation was telling them this "spendforless" crap would fail. If the Dems could mis-read something as blatantly obvious as the economy, what does that tell you about health care reform and capntrade?

thought Steny WROTE the stimulus bill along with Nancy Pelosi. What's he complaining about???

It's a shame that most of these posts are concerned more about blaming either the republican party or the democratic party. The bottom line is that both parties are so similar that Obama is basically just 4 more years of George W's spend spend spend even if we have no money. Wake up america, our dollar may not be worth anything within 10 years. Our only hope........Ron Paul 2012. For those who are unaware of Dr Paul, I suggest you read about his policies. He is our only hope.

The next big bubble that will have to burst is the large government that is being shored up with these stimulus packages. They haven't stimulated much–but may end up being the stimulus for an even bigger problem when the government can't pay its bills. What a sad day when the congress and president can't do the right thing with taxpayers' money.

Why does everyone in the world blame everything on Bush? What happened in the Market had nothing to do with Bush. It was the greedy banks and lenders that killed the real estate and credit markets.

GET OVER BLAMING BUSH!

Americans are such a spoilt-brat people! Elect a good man President and then expect special effects to transform the whole mess into a utopian paradise. Heaven forbid thet real facts and maturity should take hold in our population!
Mr. Obama, you just keep on keeping on. One suggestion, though:-You really pissed me off with the 'fish and chips' thing. It's something a repugnican would do. You can get better fish and chips right here, or have it flown over overnight and warm it up in the microwave.
That's all!

ever notice how the media never posts the questions that really need answering? use shoutwire if you want to be heard!

It is amazing how many people can't speell on this topic. Most of them liberal democrats. Then there are people like me, on the right, that like the right to drink and respond – without having to pay sin taxes. Pay enough already.

AYN July 5th, 2009 5:39 pm ET

Hey Repubs, no matter what you say, OBAMA WILL win a second term and there is nothing you can do about it. After what BUSH did, Obama can do no wrong in my eyes.

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And that's exactly why people like you are the problem. You are blind to the fact that Obama is not the right solution.

Voting for an extreme Democrat in 2008 was like shooting ourselves in the head to stop the headache.

I would rather have the Democrats in charge than the Republicans. Remember, this economic mess was caused by Bush for 8 years with a Republican Congress and Senate for 6 of the 8 years. Th Democrats are trying to fix the mess. I would give them a chance. It has been just 6 short months.

Read my message – None of you Repubicans that voter for Bush have any thing to say becasue you gave Bush 8 years to bring the USA to it knees. So shut up all ready. President Obama only been in office for 6 months and you Republicans have been complain every since. Where were you Republicans when Bush was bring this country to it knees with unnessary spending and an unnessary war. So I don't care what you Republicans have to say becasue if it wasn't for Bush and his policies we wouldn't be in the mess we are in today. YOU REPUBLICANS HAVE NO Creditably what so every. -
Republicans RIP

Wow you right wing whiners are amazing. So, Bush hands Obama a lump of coal and you are absolutely shocked he hasn't turned it into a diamond yet. We all knew things were going to get worse before they got better. Big surprise to the right wingers.

Stimulus jobs are coming out. The problem is there is still a lot of resistance. Boehner and his crew would prefer to see the country fail instead of Obama's plan to succeed.

You need to stop thinking the ghost of Reagan is going to fix things. Trickle down is what has put us where we are. As the rich got richer, they created jobs--in India, Malaysia, Vietnam, and China. Now, we need adults to fix the problem. Whine all you want right wingers, your ideas are bankrupt.

Let's stop spending.... stop the drama....... and work on the real issue... goverment spending. this is the real world... if you owe you have to pay the bills...let's go to work America and stop asking for hand outs !!!

You will feel good to work and stop waiting for the check in the mail. have some pride and feel good about doing the right thing even if others have more.

Politics is simple math vs. fuzzy math, really. The success equation reads like this: if unemployment does not come down, democrats will lose seats in both houses of Congress in November 2010, perhaps even their current majorities, given how angry voters are at Washington's total ineptitude on matters that directly affect them. As for the democrat solution to the equation, when your party controls both houses of Congress and you give yourself trillions to work with, the American people won't buy the "just blame Bush" excuses in 2010. Uh-uh, ain't gonna happen in 2010. You and your democratic Congress own the recovery's success or failure, Mr. President and Vice-President. You and your Congress, sirs, not Bush and not the Republicans whose views you dissed, Madam Pelosi and Leader Reid.

CNN,Harvard,California, ABC,Actors,Actresses

This coming October 2009, USA must pay $802 BILLION for interest of our IOUs, where are we going to get the money to do that? TAX INCREASE the DEMOCRAPS are pushing right now in Congress and soon in the Senate. Where the American people will get the money to pay for their bills with ADDITIONAL TAXES? GOD ONLY KNOWS!

Watch the unemployment rate, ti will continue to rise, businesses are shutting down their doors, those that remain will continue laying off people until there's no more people to layoff.

CAN YOU SMELL DEPRESSION? It is here NOW! Save as much as you can, don't spend on anything not unless it's necessary, folks, we are in for one hell of a bad ride inside a train with a conductor Obama at the helm. A train wreck!

I'm 64. Understand that the stimulus was allowed by Obama to be stolen by Pelosi in the House. It was not read, not on web as promised, and is full of "support" to states for unemployed. So, states simply swapped dollar needs for Congress stimulus dollars.

Compound this with the fact that Obama is not a real executive. He is and idea man (idealog). An executive would make sure funds got out. Only 10% to date. But he is off to a new idea – health care, cap and trade, trip to who know's where....

Unemployment is not rising because of the stimulus, it rising because of greed of outsourcing. You can't blame Obama for this mess.

The best way to "spend" the money is to give it back to the taxpayers in the form of tax reductions! Otherwise they are literally throwing away trillions of dollars.

How quick we forget – President Obama did give us taxpayers a tax break and Bush tax break for the rich is still in effect. Stop jumping at every change to bring this President down.

Hey lemmy-you never saw a president lose so much money so fast? Such a short memory you right wingers have. "W' took a trillion dollar SURPLUS and gave it to all his buddies within the first weeks of his administration. And that was just the beginning. If you think misinformation and slight of hand will get the GOP elected anytime in the next 10-20 yrs, you might want to rethink that. I agree with Bean Counter. It's time for all the left and right children to go sit in their corners. Let the adults talk...

I see that there are still about 20% of you still blaming Bush. Dems have been in charge of Congress for 2 1/2 years. Obama has spent more in six months than the history of ALL Presidents. Attn: Bush haters, your savior has lied to you.

Big suprise! politics is for controling the oil and resourses of the world and allowing the Fed to counterfeit money! Why can't we bring the real enemy before the American people and try the for treason? They have no congressional authority nor does congress have the authority to spend taxpayer money on private business! look at all the problems and find how many were caused by the taxpayer!? politicians are the real enemy of the people and must be held responsible!

If the media had not cozied up to the "Slogan of Change" and with all the stolen phrases from here and there, then we would have a fiscally competent Hillary who would have done a better job with the economy. The other Clinton did it.

Why does not media ask Obama what "CHANGE" he has brought to Washington.? Looks like It is more of the same in a different colored wrapper.

The campaign of deception and deceipt still goes on like planting a question ahead of time with a liberal Huffington Post reporter.

When all the glitters of Michelle's fashion shows dimms, when the cute dog is not cute anymore, when the oratory skaills fall on deaf ears, when "CAHNGE" is for "WORSE", would the media be be asking tough questions?

Unemployment at 10%. If you use the same equations they did for Bush, unemployment would be 16.5%. Loss of jobs in June: 475,000.
Yeah, the stimulus bill is genius, pure genius.

The largest debt being racked up in U.S. history, coupled with the highest unemployment rate in 25 years. Trillions later and still no health care...good strategy.

He He He,
We conservatives warned you Liberals that this was not going to create jobs. All you did was attack us in return. You never debate us, Just attack us. Now I can see the very same posters starting to panic because all of this is not working.

I can say, I told you so. See you in 2010 and 2012.

Now that Haliburton is being forced to shut down their little lemonade stand in Iraq, maybe the US government ought to audit them and find out how many hundreds of millions of taxpayer dollars they skimmed on Cheney's watch... and get it back... that could fund the stimulus right there...

all you brainless repugnant reptiles....go back to the swamplands and keep on hissiinngg

Karen – Missouri July 5th, 2009 4:12 pm ET

How funny. First the whiny Republicans tried to block the stimulus now they're crying it's not spent fast enough. What planet do the Republicans come from anyway? The more any of them open their mouths the sillier they sound!
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Um, The Dems are saying it too. And louder it seems.

Silly, Silly, lib who gets spoon fed her politics by CNN headlines.

Shantell- You voted for Bush twice, but then state as fact the fictional Democrat talking points about the Bush tax cuts, and the constant whining from Obama defenders that the mean Republicans just say no whenever the Messiah keeps spending taxpayer money. Taxes DECREASED for the middle/lower income families under Bush. So please just go back to ACORN and tell them you tried to keep spreading the lies about Bush, while trying to keep the Obama intellectual fallacy alive.

Obama's vision and execution of his agenda is failing before our very eyes.

Why??? Bad Ideas + Impossible Time Constraints + Government Oversight = 100% Failure.

The sooner we take our medicine the better. What I mean for you dummys out there is that the sooner the dimwits in congress and the senate realize they are dealing with a pure idealogical novice- the sooner we can get this country back on track.

And by the way- SPENDING IS NOT THE ANSWER!

You want jobs- cut capital gains by 100% for the next 5 years. Guess who has this now-- CHINA.

We are idiots to support this plan... and this man.

The Obama administration owns the economy now. No more blaming Bush. The Republicans can't stop anything...the Democrats are calling the shots. And they are too busy lining their own pockets to worry about fixing the problems. Nancy Pelosi wouldn't know how to work in a partisan way if her life depended on it. This country is starting to look an awful lot like it did during the Jimmy Carter years and when inflation hits and unemployment climbs (when they stop playing with the numbers and show what it REALLY is) the American people will do the same thing they did in 1980 and put a Republican back in office. Hopefully, we won't have Iran and North Korea armed and ready to deal with. This is a mess you liberals are creating...not the Republicans. You can't focus on these big of issues when there's 16,000 changes going on at the same time. It's ridiculous. All for power and politics.

CNN – are they disappointed with the PLAN, or are they diappointed with the PACE? You used to be a source of impartial and hard-hitting news – but now you seem to be on par with all the publicly-traded news companies – headlines first, facts later – all about the $$$$$. I will be very surprised if you even post this.

Shovel ready! When will the sheep realize that Obama lies to them every day. I don't know about your city, but I don't see construction jobs in our paper. Spending requires more taxing. How do you pay more in taxes if you don't have a job?

This is the MANTRA of DEMOCRAPS:

If it moves = TAX
It it keeps on moving = TAX IT MORE

KEEP ON TAXING IT UNTIL IT DIES, then TURN AROUND AND TELL THE AMERICAN PEOPLE THEIR TAXES MUST INCREASE, NEW CAP AND TRADE TO RAISE MORE MONEY TO SPEND.

Who is getting this "stimulus" generated from the back of EVERY taxpayers? Buddies of Obama and DEMOCRAPS who donated millions of dollars to their campaign to keep them in power so they CAN STEAL MORE from regular Joe eking out a living who can barely meet his montly bills with inflation rising, unemployment rising.

WELCOME TO OBAMISM, HOPE AND CHANGE!

Republicans flip flop so much.. First they are against the stimulus then its not being spent fast enough..

So, when the country is in great trouble, both economically at home and involved in two wars abroad, we elect a guy with no experience–because he's a novelty and a great orator. And now we're surprised at what he's doing?
Wake up, folks. The American public is, collectively, an ignorant, stupid, idiot.

John Boehner cares only about John Boehner ...

He does not care about Americans or the suffering so many face

He's doing everything he can to obstruct any policy the Democrats suggest in their efforts to help this country out of the mess the Republicans made

John Boehner deserve no less than jail

The Party Of NO ... conscience

Hey Repubs, no matter what you say, OBAMA WILL win a second term and there is nothing you can do about it. After what BUSH did, Obama can do no wrong in my eyes.

How can you spend something faster you do NOT have? China doesn't want to lend money to USA anymore. Russia, China and India is now working together to change currency from US dollar to yuan.

Obama and the DEMOCRAPS are DESTROYING this country! China now OWNS United States of America. Obama Administration and DEMOCRAPS in Congress and Senate is now playing with MONOPOLY MONEY. NO VALUE!

@Charlotte, NC as usual nice spin by a dimwitted liberal. You have no clue what your leader Obama has done to this nation. The energy bill will fail miserably because constituents are voicing their distrust in the American leadership right now because there are NO JOBS BEING CREATED. In fact, MORE JOBS are being lost, and TOP economists (those without their noses up Obama's butt) are warning of dire straits as we head into Q3/Q4.

I have my cash ready to load up on stocks when things crash. Cannot wait to see the flaming liberals crash and burn and then realize their leadership (Obama, Pelosi, Frank) are driving this country into the ground.

That money went straight to the pockets of the Democrats who helped Obama get into office...just wave goodbye to it already. Apparently, Obama thinks money grows on trees....well it doesn't. Now we're not only dependent on foreign oil (the Middle East) we're dependent on China....and that puts our country at risk. Same old politics with the Democrats. They fight over money and power while the country goes to pot.

Shantell,

Despite how much contempt you may have for Bush, you cant distort the facts. Bush did not reason any one's taxes. In fact, every American paid lower income taxes thanks to the Bush tax cuts. Obama, on the other hand, is ready to take a bigger cut from you. Higher taxes on healthcare and energy are coming down the pike, and those increases will hurt low and middle income Americans the most.

They are all a bunch of clueless people who have no trained background in economics, education, or management of any large corporations. All a bunch of buffoons who can talk smoothly out both sides of their mouths and convince people that they know what they are talking about.

This goes for both sides of the political spectrum, but frankly I would prefer a secure nation over a socialist one.

Boehner does not talk any sense...well, stimulus is not working...how come we see lot of road laying signs and people working on road construction...cann't we see on road? It is the time that we need to think that "INDUSTRIAL SECTOR" need to come back to the nation to curb unemployment....stimulus is a drop in the ocean....wake up....for industrial sector we need to fix "health care to all americans". People, we need to drive less and save energy...and oil independence...these republicans are already bribed not to stress on this....wake up....america, wake up.....

Colin Powel, a closet democrat disgrunyled. Now a real democrat disappointed. Next Hillary quits.

Roof is beginning to collapse? Honeymoon is over?

No one can takes us down the tubes like Reagan and the Bushies did. Remember it was debt, debt and more debt for all those years. We had one very large surplus at the end of the Clinton years and where did it go? Thank God, we have a leader like President Obama in the White House and it is a sorry state that the republicans continue to want to tear down this country.

to you mr boehner the stimulus is slowly creating jobs and you know it, and the stimulus is not flawed all because your party is an party of no, no, no. your always talk negative about democrats. talk about sanford and palin

Boehner has it right. Shame on Obama.

Wow it's not working i'm shocked. Maybe we should of spent it directly on JOBS. AND NOT OUR FRIENDS CONGRESS, AND MR PRESDIENT.

Based on the numbers, Boehner is right. The stimulus isn't creating jobs – just more debt.

Remember the promise that if congress rushed through the stimulus bill before anyone had time to read it, unemployment would "cap out" about 8%?

This is from the same people who warned us that if we didn't bailout the auto industry, they'd go bankrupt, and bankruptcy was "not an option."

"This was set up to spend out over 18 months," Biden said in an interview

So they are waiting till the last minute to have something to point to at the end? Americans need to eat now.

"Stimulus money needs to be spent faster, Dems say"

What a fabulous, stupendous, idea! Let's waste money even fast so we can go broke even faster!

Except, of course, the US is already technically broke and we're spending money we don't even have.

And, of course, this so-called "stimulus" isn't creating any private-sector jobs! Why would any business with any sense go to the trouble and expense of hiring people when the idiot feds are doing everything they can to ruin the economy with inflation and outrageous levels of taxation?

What if the Republicans started putting ethics into business and tried to make money by selling a good product at a reasonable cost AND treat the employees well??? Rather than just screw the public as much as possible if it makes 2 cents. There is no accountability in business anymore, and nobody to go to if you are treated unethically.

If you took a truth pole with God, I think we would find, that the democrats are more concerned about staying in power, than they are about what is best for the American people. Then again I don't think they know what is best. It's at least 51% for power. And 49% for the American people. It's too bad, this was such a great country!!

What about the $700+billion President Bush handed out just before he left office? Almost no accountability was used. What did this money do? Nothing will change until the jobs we lost to overseas come back. Face it. Until this country is no longer run by Wall Street we're in the toilet.

unemployment keeps rising.....foreclosures are rising......and the overall economy is sinking......taxes will be rising soon to pay for the deficit....

This spells DOOM for Obama in 2012......

So where is the money and all the jobs it was suppose to create Obama ?? Hope you didnt give it to your Middle East buddies and your new found friend Hugo Chavez. ?? But Biden is actually in charge of this so as it goes sour Obama can throw him under the bus...like those Inspector General whistle blowers he fired. He'll say Biden wasnt alert and seemed confused but we already know that .....still wont explain why peole are unemployed in huge numbers.

It's going to go, just fast enough, to maximize it's effect on the next election! Oh! For the democrats

I am an independent who voted for Bush TWICE and would have voted for McCain had he not chosen Palin as his running mate (I am also an Alaskan). While Bush was "growing government", increasing taxes (for middle/low) income Americans, and taking away many of our freedoms I don't recall hearing much dissent from other repubs. NOW, we have a president (democrat) who is trying to get us out of this mess and all I hear is dissent. Can this man do anything right in the eyes of repubs? It's really unfortunate that many repubs are not seeing this situation for what it is....a mess that took years to make and it's going to take years to get out of. Instead of dissenting EVERYTHING this man does, offer up your own solutions. As an American citizen, I WANT A GOVERNMENT THAT WORKS. However we can achieve that let's do it...it's high time don't you think?

How can Obama have a plan?? He has never ran a business or even had a job!! He does not know how anything works.
Just like the banks, they put the money in RESERVES, and on top
of that Obama wants to cut government jobs...WHEN ARE PEOPLE
GOING TO WAKE UP???

OBAMA doesn't know what to do, he was elected because he promised FREE LUNCHS to a lot of people...quess what guys!!
The are "NO FREE LUNCHES".

A lot of people want to be taken care of...well, grow up..its time you
took care of yourself.
If there are no jobs then go make a job. Get off your butt and mow lawns, do errands for elderly people,scrub your next door neighbors kitchen floor... whatever you are good at...DO!
Stop waiting for other people to take care of you.

If Democrats want the Stimulus Money to be spent faster and put to good use, maybe they should consider putting it in the hands of Americans to start mfg. businesses that will compete with imports. You see, when money is spent on imports it (the Money) goes overseas. When it is spent on American Made Products, the funds remain within our country. GET THE DRIFT?

They can also put some of the funds directly in my hand. I can spend it better than the Chinese.

Bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom for American people is exactly where the U.S. is headed with the Obama administration and the Democratic majority in the house & Senate. If the huge spending isn't
stopped and we don't start cutting back the country is headed for a brick wall. The money that needs to be spent is on business and industry that will create jobs. Everything else comes latter.

Every other news organization including the huffinton post covered the "We misread how bad the economy was" stop giving obama cover
you have no credibility left. left wing ass kissers

The ignorance of these statements is almost overwhelming since this is purely the fault of congress no doubt! Thus these very men are part of the problem. As well as not making jobs... that is just as ludicrous! Every new program funded by this money will MAKE jobs! That should go without saying! You put money into infrastruction and that makes jobs! You put money into green energy and that makes jobs of necessity! You put money into better health care and that makes jobs as it will change the structure NOT eliminate most jobs! PALEEESE! People, stop listening to this stupid proganda! This is NOT rocket science.... it is merely LOGIC!

I'm just a simple middle class working person ( 22 years of factory work ) but how can even a person of wealth and status agree with this policy of spending without income ?

Its supposed to be spent over the next 2 years, so get a grip people!

CNN needs to be more accurate in it's description/ headlines..."Dems" are not disappointed with the Obama plan...they are disappointed with the muted effect that the stimulus has had so far and with the speed with which the money is being disbursed. Hoyer clearly said that he believes in, endorses and expects the "plan" to work.

There are lots of opinions flying around... mostly from people who have never even studied economics.

I am glad we have a president that is willing to listen to people with real expertise, rather than forming un-informed opinions based on emotion and biases. I trust Obama to make the best decision he can. Right or wrong, I think he will listen to the experts and give it real thought rather than make impulsive, uninformed decisions.

Basically Boehner just admitted that the government is flawed and needs to get their act together for the common good. This applies to both sides.

Is it just me or is there something very very wrong with the philosophy that government should be spending money even faster than it already does?

If this was not so scary, it would be funny.

Gee, Boner calls for more tax breaks...what a revolutionary idea from the rebuplicans...NOT! Why would CNN or the sunday talking heads even bother asking one of the players responsible for this economic meltdown we are currently enduring what he thinks(and I use that term loosely) we should do about it? Are'nt these the same idiots that blew 800 billion (and counting) "rescuing" the people of Iraq from the "brutal dictator" Saddam (and saving the world from his imaginary WMD's) over the last 7 years? Hey I know...why don't we get Bernie Madoff's opinion as well? Only a republican would be shameless enough to utter the phrase "freedom for the american people" after participating in tapping every telephone and internet connection in the country! As for Steny...sir respectfully, when a group of people that are smarter than you say "hey lets make sure we are spending this money in a wise manner" it's probably wise to sit down and shut up.

So let's keep throwing good money after bad
typical Democrat

That is the funny thing about compromises. Nobody is happy but in the end it was the best choice. I'm glad to hear both Republicans and Democrats both criticizing him. That means he truly is working on compromises between the parties and ideologies.

Democrat mantra:

Tax more, spend faster!

The truth? We can't "stimulate" our way out of this mess. While Obama's strategy to pump money into the economy and get people to working again is a god one, it cannot be the magic bullet that's going to make our economy soar again. This is because our economy had become over-valued and had remained that way too long. We must accept a substantial shrinkage of our GNP and then strive to keep it from becoming over-blown again.

Economics follows the same laws as ecology and anyone who's studied ecology understands that a system is always limited by available resources. It cannot continue to grow without bounds. For some reason, businessmen and even economists have forgotten this first principle. To them all that is acceptable is for the U.S. economy to grow; anything else is deemed failure. It needs to be stable in the long term and grow only when there are real and sustainable opportunities for it to do so.

As I warned before the election. Obama is a Terrorist. Bin Laden warned after 9-11 that they would eventually get inside our government and take us from within. The people fell right into the trap and voted our #1 in enemy right into the most poerful position in the world. I hope you like communism for it is coming and coming quickly; never mind socialism. That would be good compared to where we are headed.

Yeah, more tax breaks for small business? The banks aren't lending small businesses money and consumers aren't spending. Did tax breaks given during Bush 43's 2 terms really create any jobs? Last I looked, Bush 43 had a net deficit in creating new jobs due to jobs being outsourced. Where were these folks when Bush drove the deficits to highest levels ever? Where were they when we put the cost of 2 wars and tax breaks for the top 5% on the credit card? They have no credibility.

America was warned, this was not a on the job training type of job. We gave this person with no experience with a budget or our international affairs the most important job there is (well, except parenting of course). We are in a deep world of trouble and not enough people are noticing.

This was the biggest waste and burden ever put on the american people,by some one who doesn't have a clue at what he's doing .I hope we can get them out in 2010 or face national socilalisoum.
Lousy choice for sure. Remember the Second amendment it's not negotioble

Wow. They are beginning to see it. Are these the people we elected to govern us? UNBELIEVABLE!

Tell us, you said, all these money will go to construction, that is, roads and railways. Do everybody work on these jobs? What happen to the rest of us who work on different jobs? DID THIS GUY EVEN TAKE ECON. OR BUS. 101? WHAT DO THEY TEACH IN YALE ANYWAY?
PLEASE TELL US BEFORE HUNGER OVERTAKE US.

GOP = Goofs on Parade

I have heard Obama is participating in the coup against the Honduran government at this very moment. It is being stage out of DC. Why nothing from CNN ? It is a duly elected government, except in the eyes of a handful of Marxist, Obama amongst them. This seems like a very dangerous (and treacherous) act on Obama's part and nothing is being mentioned on CNN. What goes ?

Yeah, I'm surprised the Dems have been this quiet to date. The whole purpose of Obama's "stimulus" is to give kickback money to the Dem's backers, and they need to get it out before people wise up.

When all those republican kept saying, NO to this NO to that, NO to anything that President Obama was trying to offer. Now they are saying everything took to long, Everything is moving to slow. The ecomony is not where it should be. When President Obama was trying to get help quickly, everyone put up a fight.
So, its no wonder things are off track.

$800 Billion spent and no jobs created by Obama. Anyone surprised? All hot air out of that pie hole of his.

Imagine that..the dimwitocrats want to hurry up and spend our money faster..can you say OBAMAGEDDON??.has unemployment goine down??..NO..except in the government sector of course..I mean they have to hire more hacks and relatives to run the largest expansion of government in history..has chrysler rebounded yet??..NO..they can't even give cars away,.have the bailed out banks lowered their interest rates yet??..NO..in case you haven't noticed they are raising their rates..especially on credit cards..we bail them out and get screwed for it..the federal government is rapidly following in the footsteps of California..pretty soon we will all get IOUs..and why aren't all the liberal weenies screaming about the obama surge in afghanistan the way they did about the bush surge in Iraq??..because they are a bunch of hypocrites that's why..the fractured fairy tale that is the administration of obumbler and buffoon biden are heading this country down the road to financial ruination..Obamageddon

A QUITTER & bookburner!

...and you people want to even consider this woman for anything more than a Matanuska milkmaid?

(CNN) – As Gov. Sarah Palin blasted the media Saturday in a tough Facebook post, her attorney delivered a strong warning to news outlets that they should not report any stories that allege the Alaska governor is leaving office because she is under any kind of federal investigation.

I hope America wakes up before we become a third world country. We used to be the greatest country in the world and now we're on the road to becoming a backwater. This inexperienced president and insane Congress are leading us to ruin. I pray to God that this joker will be a one termer but not destroy us as bad as Carter.

The Republicans can say what they want, but where I work we have several people who are now working and getting paid with stimulus money. Maybe it's because I work for a company with a government contract, but they are drawing a paycheck now where they were not before.

"Tea Party" anti-tax nuts, left wing "spend it, spend it and spend it quickly"! Considering the flak from the left and right, I'd say Obama's got it just about right.

What is pretty typical of the right wing party is short memories. It took GWB 8 years to turn a surpluse economy into a disaster. In 8 years he and his rich croanies were the only ones to really prosper.

Now President Obama is supposed to have it all better in 7 months. Go figure?

January 2009 – "WE WILL CREATE 3,000,000 TO 5,000,000 JOBS." Barack Obama

Jobs Report July 2009 – biggest unemployment rate in 26 years.

$800,000 billion in stimulus monies approved.

Results through July 2009 – Zip, Nada, nothing.

Change you can believe in.

The Dems were really hoping to use the money to buy votes in next years election but with the economy in free fall they have to do something now. Too darn funny. They will probably loose now to the Palin sunami that is about to sweep them into oblivion. Grevious miscalculation on the part of the Dems and Barack Hussien Obama.

Lets see...

Billions to GM.... filed for bankruptcy

Billions to Chrysler..... sold to a foreign company

AIG... LOL where do we begin on that one....

And they keep spending.

Way to spend taxpayer money wisely Dems!!

LOL Ahh, this must be the "change" we were promised

At the request of a couple of Marxist dictators in Central America, Barack Obama launches a coup against the duly elected government of Honduras, using Dulles airport in DC as the staging point, and CNN has not one word to say.

Basically what they are saying is that you need to push our liberal agenda quicker because this new Conservative movement is unstoppable.

The depth of our economy woes happened over a long period of time, so how do you people expect things to turn around in such a short time? I'm glad the stock market is closed today or we would see a big loss due to Impatiant people and uncalled for negative comments.

I have never seen a President lose so much so fast. Obama is done and thanks to his failures, we will see a GOP resurgence. Great job Mr. President.

I don't believe it will create jobs," he said, calling instead for reduced taxes to let small business and consumers spend their money as they choose.

I rather suffer some more months they to give the rich greedy CEO a tax cut. Sorry Bonehead we gave Bush years of tax cuts and look what it got us. It will take more then 6 months for us out of this mess so Bonehead Repubicans shut the hell up.

How funny. First the whiny Republicans tried to block the stimulus now they're crying it's not spent fast enough. What planet do the Republicans come from anyway? The more any of them open their mouths the sillier they sound!

except neo-con warmongers and neo-lib thieves?

Gotta love Boner. His party's responsible for sending this country into the greatest economic tailspin since the Great Depression, and he's knocking the President's stimulus plan. This guy needs a little more spray on tan to cover his blushing hypocracy.

Why don't the media do their homework and call the County that have the stimulus money and get some facts to shut these Repubicans that are hoping the stimulus don't work. It is not easy to get their project up and running if you want to do it right. Repubicans gave Bush 8 years so why not give this Administration more time than 6 months. Stop talking to Congress and go straight to the County that recieved the money if you want answers.

As far as the stimulus bill the democrats i feel did the right thing the president said when it was first put out that it was not a perfect bill but at least something was done instead of nothing.Yes the republicans hope that its not working and its a shame they want to play politics when so many have lost their jobs. It was said when the stimulus first went out that it would be a big win for the democrats if the package does work, but the republicans are just playing usual politics by talking it down and saying its not working when in reality they are hoping that its not. to me its a down right shame.

This top down philosophy espoused by both parties is fatally flawed and continues the down fall of this once great nation.

The Recovery Act was always intended to create jobs over a two year period, and while progress has been slow to start, it's way to early to doom it as a failure. I don't listen a whit to the Republican mantra of "tax cuts for corporations and the rich"; the current economic crisis has proven that tired old Reagan policy is the problem, not the solution.

Boehner your rich so you don't care a f with is good for the Middle Class. I would for the Allegheny County Economic Development Department and we are just finished with training on how to spend the money correctly. So I would disregard any negative comments coming for the Boehner or any Repubicans.

The media needs to try to talk to the right person and get facts. If our office is just spending the money than I take it other one are too. President Obama said he wanted the money to be spend on shovel ready projects so it take time to get contract with constractorsddddx

You can spend it faster by giving me about $30,000.

Thank you.

How are you going to spend what you don't have.
Who is going to lend the money China, Japan, Korea, Russia? They have their own problems and are dumping the dollar that are know holding as quickly as they can.
Remember that we have to borrow $.50 out of every $1 that we spend. It is amazing to see that people in our country have not yet grasp the reality.

The best way to "spend" the money is to give it back to the taxpayers in the form of tax reductions! Otherwise they are literally throwing away trillions of dollars.

Obama's socialist policies are blatant wealth redistribution, which is the surest and quickest way to economic destruction.

yeah, we need to hurry up and create those burdensome arms of government, propped up by additional tax dollars, or create those short term, manual labor jobs, lasting no more than a year or so, repaving roads....That Change! Once that money's depleted, what then? Another big taxing of the heavily taxed Americans to support government spending? SAY NO TO TAXES...IMPEACH OBAMA!

Please send the stimulus, they are outsourcing jobs at a record pace. Who can compete with cheap labor.

That is not the trouble! Barack Obama is a proven socialist.
America is losing billions of dollars because of that.

The investment in the USA today is way down.

It will just get worse, the longer Obama plays King....

if it's working Joe, why is unemployment rising????

I just wanted to take the opportunity to say that over the last year I believe this CNN website is not only asleep at the wheel but probably drinking too. Sometimes for days in a row there are news articles that just sit as if there is no other news about a particular subject in the world. Come on. How could such a large entity not be able to report real news. I am so disappointed in this company. I am taking this sight off of my favorites because CNN is an old tired dog that just wants to eat and sleep but do no tricks. Signing off for good in search of a real news worthy website. Please go out of business soon so you don't convince others that this company makes any effort whatsoever to do good in this world.

Unemployment is RISING which it shouldn't be if this stupid stimulus program were working....

Obama says we will have 10% unemployment like it's a good thing....
why isn't he taking steps to ensure that it doesn't reach 10%?????

Because he has no clue how to fix the economy.....Obama is ONE and DONE....

the stimulus debt we incurred has helped this country tremendously. Our unemployment rate continues to rise. Good job Obama!