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Yikes! We are in bad shape. We are borrowing nearly a trillion dollars from the chinese to stimulate our economy and so far we cannot even stop the bleeding of jobs. Democratic leadership can't even say they are helping end the recession. Maybe now people will start understanding that you cannot tax, borrow and spend your way out of a bad economy. We need real job creation in the private sector, not government bureacracy job creation with money we don't have. Wealth is not created by the government. Sustainable job growth is not created by the government. When are people going to wake and realize the change people voted for was actually to make things worse than before?

this whole stimulus plan reminds me of people that obtain a debt consolidation loan...seems like a good idea at the time, yet they end up deeper in the hole.....
The gov't is promising jobs, when they cannot even do their own job....and if they could develop a job, say, to build new bridges...well, how long does it take to build a bridge? 3-8 months? Then what? The job's over, that's what. So, Obama wants to fork out billions to create either dead end, short term jobs, giving FALSE hope, or he wants to add jobs to the government, creating yet another burden on taxpayers to fund the salaries of these jobs...Either way, he's strategically trying to hold onto the funds, not to help Americans, but to use the money in a political fashion for gaining votes...so, now Obama's stepped up from illegal contributions to get elected, to taxing all of us, and returning the money in some facade of a program at a predetermined time in hopes of winning re-election votes...

I look forward to the daily and weekly Rasmussen report where it continually shows the truth about his sliding popularity....Liberals are losing ALL credibility with this fiasco of a president....and it's becoming totally enjoyable to watch him fail...why? Because his agenda is to dismantle the America that so many of us worked hard to obtain, and redistribute it to the lazy slackers that he duped with "hope and change..."

Spend, spend, spend say Congress!!

Meanwhile.., America's National Debt pass 80% GDP under their progressively liberal watch.

The Dem's, and the SOCIALIST Pres. say we need to do this, and that !!!! They don't know what the a talking about we are getting worse then when Pres Bush was in office !!!! The SOCIALIST Obama is spending more money the every other Pres. If you like SOCIALESEM move out of the U.S.A. Obama = ONE – BIG- ASS – MISTAKE – AMERICA .

Hoyer: .."we're disappointed we haven't been able to spend more and more taxpayer money even faster and faster..." Democrats are political pukes.

Quote from the article: "Boehner, however, warned against more government spending to heal the economic problems.

"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."

This doesn't make sense in the current climate. Businesses are laying people off because there isn't any demand. The stimulus package is intended to juice the economy so that people will actually have money to go into businesses and spend. What businesses need is customers. If you give them more money, they are not going to hire people if there is no demand for those people's services."

Hoyer says we aren't spending tax dollars fast enough. Give him props for being an honest democrat at least. Most others preach "fiscal responsibility", which is newspeak for "how much can we take from the productive members of society"?

Since the bill is not working, why not kill the bill and relieve the taxpayers of this amount of the waste? Can democrats even think to reduce the amount of planned spending? Is that possible?

We are not spending money we don't have fast enough?????

Wake up! The debt is about to explode because interest rates are going to rise because we keep spending money we don't have.

Translation (I'll use small words): our annual budget will increase because we have to make higher interest payments on our debt. That leads to more borrowing to cover the cost of the budget increase. That means more interest payments on the money we borrowed to cover the cost of the budget increase. That means more borrowing...

Could it be any simpler???????? Stop spending money we don't have!

It is largely agreed by economists that he resession is over. Unemployement is a trailing indicator, by up to 9 months, so don't look for numbers to stablize – much less improve before next years.

Obama has done it. He has saved the economy from utter collapse. Republican "do nothingism" would have taken the economy down such a deep hole that it wouldhave very likely destroyed civilization.

Inflation can be controlled by the Fed and they are already taking steps to curtail it. I'm buying stocks like there IS a tomorrow!!!

Lets remember the Dem's have controled the money from 2006 when they got Plelosi in power. ....not Bush..............ooooohhh evil

Why has everything gone bad from that time? Inquiring minds want to know

Why? It isn't helping anyway, or we wouldn't have 9.6% unemployment rate! Stimulus is a joke!!!!

Spend, spend, spend, spend. It's not working? Then spend more and spend it faster. Do the Dems know any other tune?

We don't need to spend it faster. The stimulus is doing exactly what Obama/Biden want it to do. Keep the wealthy wealthy and swell the ranks of the poor. For every one job created by stimulus, there are five unemployed people in line.
The only jobs Obama/Biden are working to create is jobs in the military. Cannon fodder for the American Empire.

Money has always burned a hole in Democrat's pockets especially if it is someone elses.

Hoyer, is way off base. As a Marylander, the very first stimulus money to hit Maryland went to a road project that had been backed logged for 13 years. The point being wheather or not the economy was good or bad, Maryland could not afford the project. Now stimulus money is being spend on aproject we cannot afford to have, or maintain, even when the economy was good.
Gov. O"Malley took stimulus money and prevented the layoff of over 700 Maryland states workers. Worker's that we do no need or can afford. Maryland today has seen a $2Billion dollar revuenue short fall over it's current budget. And they keep spending at the same pace, and use stimulus money to maitain the status quoe, and not for job creation.

Sit back, watch, and enjoy the ride. I hope this truly works as this country has enough problems.

It's taking so long because they read and studied the bill so long before they signed it, wait a minute what do you mean they didn't even read it.

When we as conservatives say 'I told you so', we appear to be invested in the failure of the current administration. And that is somewhat true. The current administration, will crumble, and there is not enough liberal glue out there to hold it together. All we can do now is count the broken pieces while we wait (very impatiently). We will get a chance for
sweeping reform, but will find no joy in emptying the dust pan.

How about this?? Spend the first stimulus package and see if it REALLY works and quit talking about a second! I am disappointed in the plan too!

Have you noticed? The faster they spend the higher unemployment goes.

Anyway, how does giving billions and billions of dollars to rich people create jobs?

The trickle-down effect: if you give enough money to the already-rich, they will eventually hire somebody to mow their yard.

What a bunch of liars! (Or is it we are a bunch of idiots?)

You can fool all of the people some of the time, some of the people all of the time, but you only need to fool enough of the people enough of the time.

Perhaps they should rescind that scam that was pawned off on us as a "stimulus bill" and pass a bill that actually has incentives for people and businesses to invest.
The really bad news is that the Chinese have basically told us they are not interested in financing our borrowing binge. It is pretty sad when a communist country is lecturing your government on fiscal matters.

Blowing all this money we don't have is going to prove to be TRAGIC.....WE NEED NEW LEADERSHIP........

Better hurry up and spend the money before its all gone. What's the rush? Are you afraid folks will realize they've been robbed before you finish the job?

Well, perhaps Steny Hoyer and the other Democrats who crammed this Bill down our throats should have read the 1000+ pages before rushing to a vote. You can't put the toothpaste back in the tube, moron!

Did anyone out there REALLY expect the stimulus package to do anything more than pad the pockets of political supporters – and I don't mean the voters !? We need smaller government who get less of our tax dollars. They said they want to spread the wealth, why don't they start with their own before spreading and spending ours. It has been calculated that we could trim 8 BILLION off the deficit in one year, by reducing our number of elected officials and their high expenses. If they all were bound to the rules they make for the rest of us, we would have better government !!!

Why can't these people stop playing political games, long enough to actually help the american working class. While they posture we take the beatings.

The republicans had there shot, a republican president and the majority. So this idea that giving corporate tax breaks is hog wash. These same companies have and continue to show no loyalty to this country. They continue to sell us out in the name of shareholders profits. Raise prices on consumers at will ,cut jobs because they may have a projected profit loss what about your fellow Americans?

When is it corporate america's turn to give back something to the consumers and workers who allow them to make money. These people are punishing the country for some of our support of president Obama simply put. Hope is alive and will win out.

So if these companies get stimulus money will they just stockpile it for there own personal uses?.... Such corruption / greed.

I think we are all disappointed by our new President.

I saw this show and it really is sad how bohener is so negative with what ever the President is doing. boehner is always on the television shooting off his big orange face mouth but he nor his counterparts ever have any solutions. I'm glad the President hasn't given them a second look, heck all they want to do is complain so the President let's them but in the meantime the President is doing his thing and I for one love it

I know! Let's just get a helicopter and dump cash on Hoyer's district. Would that shut him up?

To all you good, honest, and hard-working Americans: Remember this when you get your next check with all those taxes taken out. Hoyer thinks Washington should be spending even more of your money with both hands.

Why not put everything on hold until 2010 ? Obama doesn't know what he is doing, and the Democrats are all over the place on spending. Let's let the Republicans restore order.

Faster! Faster! Spend! Spend! Spend! This way they can push through another useless stimulus bill bankrupting the country even further.

People need to stop being impatient and give the stimulus bill the chance to work. It's going into it's second phase and hopefully by the end of this phase we'll see some jobs created.

Congress can do whatever it wants with the "stimulus" money because they are not held accountable. The vast majority of Americans were against this and let their elected officials know that, and yet it still passed. The latest bill the so called "Energy Bill" is going to pass the cost of clean energy to the average american in higher costs for energy at a time when most of us are trying to figure out how to pay the bills and buy food at the same time. Congress is out of control, spending is out of control on Capitol Hill and since Congress is charge of the money in this country it all falls on them. This country needs Statesman not politicans....unfortunately we have politicians that are more concerned with getting re-elected than doing the right thing. We need term limits for Congress so that we don't end up with career politicans......

What do you expect Obama to do in just 6 months in office? As Joe Biden said, the Obama administration grossly underestimated the loss of jobs, and as Mr. Hoyer now says, the Obama administration needs to front end stimulus spending rather than waiting for just before the next election.

How about we quit throwing tax payer money away. Spending billions of dollars is not going to create jobs. Why don't we just not spend that money and then not have to tax the taxpayers for it?? Seems to make more sense to me, too bad the Democrats have NO common sense at all.

Obama is using a shot gun to shoot mosquitoes with a crowd of people around him!

The last thing we need is more government spending. Only reduced spending and a balanced budget will create the type of tax reducutions needed to heal our ecomomy. Instead of spending another trillion or two dollars how about reducing spending by the same amount?
But neither of the two major parties have demostrated any willingness in reducing Government spending.

the spend spend spend campaign is unravelling......the obama mantra is taking us to loserville......and the dems just want to spend it faster...............i see, lets just dig the hole deeper and quicker.........and biden admits they underestimated the economy's weakness ( he forgot to blame bush).........so lets spend more.......check out CALIFORNIA you liberal democratic MORONS......thats where were headed except now the dems want to get us there faster..........BRILLIANT..........spending money you don't have, strengthening the unions to hold onto their votes,
creating government "jobs" at the expense of private sector jobs, and threatening, albeit guaranteeing, tax increases on the remaining job producers forcing them to rein in their own spending and expansion is the exact OPPOSITE of what needs to be done........and we're quickly approaching the point of no return.......

Incompetence. Can't wait till Nov 2010.

The Administration really is darned if it does and darned if it deosn't with the stimulus. If they get it out the door fast and some ends up being wasted as a result, they rushed it out without examining how the money is spent. If they put it out slowly, they're sitting on it while jobs are being lost. At this point though, they need to STOP worrying about what will be said by irrelevant idiots like Boehner and start spending the cash on the people and creating jobs. The stimulus was flawed from the beginning due to their attempts to appease a GOP that can never be appeased unless they are the sole dictators in charge, now at least get the money working!

Boehner doesn't even want the Ohio money, so of course that will not create jobs. Come on people. Give it a chance...we let Bush sink us (and were called traitors if we questioned ANYTHING) for 8 long miserable years, but now we can't even give the President a year to get things going again? Please. This is so politically motivated it's sick.

Tax cuts, tax cuts, tax cuts... What Mr Boehner fails to say is that tax cuts are simply not targeted. People will use that money to pay off debt. It will not get invested and will wind up in someones bank account collecting dust. The money has to be SPENT for it to be effective. Tax cuts will not guarantee that.

There is a time and place for tax cuts, like in the 80's. We've cut taxes to the bone. It's time to let the stimulus work, but it takes time.

Better yet, lets return the stimulus money to the taxpayers and let them decide how to spend it. The libs don't understand it is our money.

When the going gets tough, Sarah Palin Quits!!! It's not about honor or country, it's about the money. She will go done in history as the worst VP pick ever and a quitter!!!

Why was Obama running around claiming the bill had to be past immediately, "it's a crisis", and then nothing. WE could have reviewed the 1100 page document in more than 24 hrs. I don't ccare if you are a D or R, this is poor management.

$800 billion in porkulus to lose 2 million jobs.
North Korea testing missles.
Iran's violent repression of pro-democracy movements while the US remains silent.
$900 million to Hamas.
$750 billion to bail out European banks through the IMF.
Turning GM and Chrysler over to the UAW.
Passing the largest tax increase in history through Cap & Trade.

That's Obama's First 100 Day legacy. Every president from here on in has a very low bar to beat Obama.

Do you pronounce this GOP guys name Boner? That would be appropriate. Why do they continue to spout the same "cut taxes" mantra. They still haven't figured out that is not really a fix. It too, creates more deficits and add to the nation's debt, and the way they always set it up, only makes the rich, richer.

Didn't Mark "the shark" Sanford want to spend stimulus money for "anything but jobs?" Are the Republicans losing their minds, or just grimly determined to bring on a new depression? And can Sarah Palin get a new job with stimulus money, perhaps as a dog trainer or lipstick tester?

Put aside the entitlements you receive from government for a moment and ask: Is this really how I want my government to operate?
Put aside the prork that makes us all feel warm and fuzzy inside when we receive it for our states and ask: Is the government doing this, so I won't complain about the money they are spending like drunken sailors?
I'm not attacking the president or either party, I'm asking, what if every American ran their households the way that government runs the country? I do not know about you, but I can't survive spending more than I take in and I cannot spend more, then expect my employer to give me more when I do not have enough.
Why do we allow this America? Why do we allow these politicians to spend and take and spend and take. Everyone of us has to live within our means. Everyone of us has to stay within our budget, and we do not get to change the budget on a whim.
America we have to be fiscally responsible, shouldn't we expect the same out of Washington?

Bush drove us into the ground for 8 years. Give the man a chance. Geeessssss.

Republicans don't mind if you spend billions on rebuilding another country (iraq) or on the military or on a war based on lies but the minute you spend money in this country on the middle class they call it wasteful spending (boehner) or socialism. Please explain that republicans...............

wow..the first comments are gone? How much more can we say about the incompetent Obama administration? He, along with his tax cheats and liberal cronies in congress are dismantling the American way....

Spend it faster, and get this fiasco over sooner. The sooner sound Republican governance is restored, the better.

This was obamas plan, grow the government and make more people dependent on government. The chickens have come home to roose. How is change working for you so far. Not good I would bet.

Idiots! Didn't they realize that this was Obama'a plan all along? Most intelligent people did...

"The end result, he said, would be "bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom for the American people."
AKA
The Socialist States of America
or as many of us call it...the OBAMA-nation!

"bigger government, higher taxes, less freedom for the American people" – This is exactly what Libs want for everyone else but themselves.

Hey Steny and Boehner,did you forget who ran the Titanic into the iceberg in the first place?It was "full speed ahead"Bush and Cheney,as much as the right would like to pass it off to President Obama,it wont happen.It was a major collision and will take time to fix,if it can be fixed at all.P.S,the cowboys couldnt catch Bin Laden either,or they just didnt want to,take your pick on that one.

Boehner has become a predictable caricature of himself. Now that they don’t get votes from scaring people about Gay marriage, everything is “Bigger government”. They really need to stop campaigning and offer solutions.

787 billion dollars too late...

Enjoy your 2 years in power, Democrats.

Know what I'm disappointed in Dem politicians?

The fact that you never brought, let alone tried, articles of impeachment against Bush/Cheney!!!

Thank you Democrats for realizing this was a goat roping from the get go. The best stimulus go be to cut welfare and government spending and focus on the real issues of prosperity, world peace and keeping America the country that believes in freedom and the right to work.

oh put a sock in it Hoyer, the Stimulus plan calls for spending the money *wisely* over the next TWO YEARS, not in some insane electioneering rush.

Stand by the President and his plans for economic recovery – that's what America voted him in for!

Democrat or not, I guess they don't quite know how to spend money when they think someone is finally watching and there is some oversight attached to such funding, eh?!

Any chance that our republican friends will give this bill a chance to work and stop the knee-jerk opposition to it for a few months?

Why don't we take a wait and see approach here, folks? IT took a LONG 8 years of gross mismanagement and unchecked spending by YOU (I'm looking at you, conservatives, who have had control of everything for 7 of the last 10 years) to get us here, do you really think one bill and a few months is going to erase all of the damage you've done?

To say that Obama's presidency has, thus far, been a series of disappointments is an understatement. For all of his lofty rhetoric, his results are lackluster at best, and I fear that in certain areas (the economy, national security) they may prove disastrous.

We are all so dissappointed!!! in so many ways with Obama!!! He has created nothing but stress and Lies !!!

Should this money not be subject to "PAY-GO", or was that "law" conveniently passed after the fact and this money is free?

The whole PAY-GO business was simply a stunt to make it look like "Change you can believe in" had finally arrived.

Meanwhile, we can sit back and watch our taxes skyrocket. Of course, none of the provisions in the crap and trade legislation worming its way through Congress involve taxes, simply a fee or a levy, maybe a surcharge here and there, but not a tax. Remember that 95% of Americans won't see ANY FORM of tax increase during the Obama administration. Well, Read My Lips.

Smoke, they are all blowing smoke!!!

I find it interesting that the republicans did nothing for 8 years (except pour money into W's war) and now they criticize everything the democrats are trying to do to clean up the mess. They are NOT, however, coming up with any viable solutions of their own – just criticism.

It's a shame.

In Kentucky the stimulas has only enabled more bad managment of an already pitifully run state bureaucracy that is leaving massive taxes uncollected because of breaucratic apathy. Tax evasion is rampant here but we can let it go another two years now because of the federal printing press.

Hoyer is dead right, we need to be moving forward the furtherest spending, so that retail is propped up during the worst of this recession, not once things are swinging up.

Here's an idea.... if it's not working, stop spending!! It is not too late to fix the problem and stop spending the taxpayers' money on a flawed stimulus package that is obviously not working. Spending it faster is supposed to help now?? The clowns in Washington need to grow up and admit they are wrong. Let true capitalism work this out and it will be over much more quickly. Oh yeah... no more bailouts either.

What an idiot Hoyer and the rest are for believing the stimulus package was going to solve all our problems. It has just created a whoping debt for all taxpayers. It is unfortunate the our leaders stung all americans. We deserve better from our leaders.

We did not get into this mess overnight and will not get out of it overnight. Furthermore, unless we get back into the business of manufacturing things, from cloth pins to TV sets, there will be no sustainable growth. All the consumption from the Reagan days on to the last Bush has been fueled by borrowing and that is simply not sustainable. It was all smoke and mirrors. People have to have disposable income to spend. A purely service economy does not promote a healthy system.

Obama's stimulus proved to be worthless. It is just more debt we cannot afford. The market has no confidence in this president period!

Obama is doing just what he said – Hoping it will change. . . we are now worse off than under Bush, thanks DEMS.

Amateur hour in the White House is not what this country needed, but the voters went for flash instead of ability. . . and now we all get to pay for it.

the stimulus money didnt get to some like me. in 1998 my ex had a house foreclosed on. we married in 2003 in a community property state. in 2006 the mortgage co. "forgave" his debt. because we were married in 2006 and filed joint, i have to pay a very large portion to irs even tho it wasnt mine and our devorce was in 2007. those that are in foreclosure will just about get back on their feet when this will hit them. there will be a lot of people very poor again at that poiunt. it is wrong!!!

If the state legislatures cannot get the stimulus programs functioning by October 1, Obama and the Dems will suffer the consequences.

Stop looking for the government for answers, be self reliant or as a great American put it, "Ask not what your country can do for you but what you can do for your country."

If you hand over your freedom for comfort the government will gladly take it.

It's Taking government too long to get our country back to work, spend the stimulus money by giving it to small business to boost the economy with free enterprise and give more stimulus money to the people of our nation to get them spending again, this is the formula to get the country going again, not making government bigger.

Thanks for nothing, Obama.

Hopefully we'll see yours and Biden's resignations on America's collective desk in the morning.

Jim Boehmer should shut up his party did nothing for the economy for eight years started wars lost jobs most hated country in the world they were to stupid to realize that french fries were discovered in Belgian not france. cut taxes for the rich, midgets when it comes to morality.plus they have Senator imhofe and Marsha blackman two of the most stupidest people in goverment so just sit back and enjoy the ride if you have noyhing to say get out of the way.

It seems that we no longer have a democracy.

That is because everyone, including the entire Congress, believes that President Obama is responsible for everything and it is his burden to "fix" all that is not right in America.

John Boehner main problem is that he hates Obama and nothing Obama does will ever satisfy him.Let Boehner know that in this electronic age every statement is recorded(audio and video). If the economy turns around as it definitely will then these shots will become circular.

But if we stimulate private sector jobs, how will the government be able to control our lives?

Were Americans expecting anything else from the Chosen One's administration? Not only that, but it's a real shame that the Democratic majority continues to approve idiotic programs and spend our money like firewood.

The American voter was really fooled by President NObama. We did not get smaller government. It's completely the opposite.

Lets not forget all the lies come election time.

Stay tuned!

Absolutely, the unemployment numbers have to get down and fast so holding back on the stimulus is insane.

Please get the economy going again, too many people are suffering.

Really? You can't spend $800 billion to fix things? Maybe, just maybe, it would have helped if anyone one of nitwits that voted for this mess, ACTUALLY READ THE THING!!!!. Including our "leader". I am shocked that a $9 billion train to Vegas, didn't create or save 3 million jobs.

It shouldn't be that hard to spin this. So far Obamas plan is a mocing target. Create 5 million jobs, create 3.5 million jobs, create or save 3.5 million jobs, 2.5 millions jobs... How do you prove a job was saved BTW?

Come on 2010, this mistake needs to be corrected in a bad way. Hey did anyone in the house read the health bill? That answer would be no, too. I guess they "mesread" that one too. So much for transparancy.

He irresponsibly blew 8Billion dollars and created NO JOBS?? I did not really think that was his intentions to begin with!! He gave MILLIONS to foriegn aid!! Mexico!! Zimbobwe for crying out loud! Someone should have the power to STOP HIM! He is going to only want more and more! Thipeople!! No jobs and we get to pay this all back?? I think they wanted to borrow this money and waste it like children in a candy store, then they should figure out how to pay it back! Maybe I do not want this future for my grandchildren!! They deserve better than what this administrations outcome will be! They say that they will create 2 Million jobs by the end of next year! What a joke!! Clinton created 21Million! This guy is manipulating people while giving all of the stimulas money away ...for foriegn countries ...for pork ...for vacations, for bailouts! Heck, we even gave out our blackhawks! WE MUST VOTE HIM OUT! If we do not, we may just end up with America, as we have NEVER dreamed of seeing her! SAVE OUR FREEDOMS, SAVE OUR COUNTRY!