“This stimulus package is just one leg in the stool of recovery” -Barrack Obama (5minutes ago)
hahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahahaha!
We are stepping in shit.
My understanding of that statement was, don’t think this is the only spending package coming down the pike. It is just one of the collossal wastes of taxpayer money getting ready to be approved. Congress could send just about anything to that guys desk and he would sign it immediately. We are doomed. The US taxpayer will never be able to dig out of the spending spree.
How does “This stimulus package is just one leg in the stool of recovery” = “President Obama admits the recovery package is crap.”
So if you were eating a ham sandwich and said “This is just one of the foods I like to eat for lunch” would it be correct for me to say, “Haha, Irishsailsman admits ham sandwiches are crap.” Your reasoning is so unsound it’s almost difficult to debate.
Maybe the other legs of the stool include things like better regulation?
This can’t be that hard: stool ~= crap.
HAHA, I missed that. Didn’t get enough sleep this weekend.
However, in my defense the OP analogy would have been more logical if he said we were sitting in shit, not stepping in it.
Also, whose stool/crap has legs in it? Pieces, parts, etc., maybe. But legs?
You are just not that sharp are you? LOL
OK, a “leg” in “stool”
A “step” in “crap”
Get it? Leg = step you know…foot, leg, toes, foot?
Shit, crap, poopie etc.
Relax, my friend. 
I think it’s one stool along the leg of recovery.
That's because the day after they vote on this, there will be the unveiling of Geithner's (latest) banking industry bailout/control package. Then the stool will have two legs...
Along the same lines of reasoning. all of the scrambling that Congress is performing to save the bill is the equivalent of polishing a turd. No matter how shiny you get it, it’s still a turd.
Perhaps, to quote our President (when he was on the campaign trail): “No matter how much lipstick you put on a pig…”
I don’t know which way to go on this package. The punditry seems split down the middle (depending upon political affinity) on this monstrous increase in government spending, so relying on that class of working stiffs for an honest response will get you absolutely nowhere.
Economists (not surprisingly) also come down on one side or the other and also depending on their political DNA, so they’re no help either.
I dunno, though. I can accept on one level that something’s got to be done, but I have a deep, deep unease about the nature of this bill and its ultimate effect on us a people, a society and a country. Almost as if it’ll do more harm than good in the long run, and that once that harm’s been done there’ll be no way to correct it.
BK
Almost as if it’ll do more harm than good in the long run, and that once that harm’s been done there’ll be no way to correct it.
But don’t politicians excel in fixing what they broke by breaking it more?
They’re the ultimate in straw-man makers, that’s for sure. Creat the problem, say something’s got to be done to fix it, and then leave an even bigger problem somewhere down the road with the fix they implemented, after they’ve left office and moved on to some cushy lobbying position paying a million or so bucks a year. It’s very depressing.
BK
exactly, it is depressing.
what the jackasses need to do is cut down the spending, not ramp it up to an historical high.
the other legs of the stool are: more bailouts to banks, more bailouts to corporations, and more bailouts to the underbelly of society.
i don’t appreciate how obama has to go public to beg for support. he was elected, last time i checked you and i cannot approve a bill. why put it back on us?
the POS is going to pass after all of the Republicans make a big public stink over it. this way, when the bill flops, and the Republicans need to get re-elected they can say “i didn’t want to vote for it, i spoke out against it repeatedly, but i was forced to go along with it”
as i’ve said before, it’s the same game no matter who is in office. sure, some of the players & topics change, but it’s the same game regardless of who’s in. anybody who hung their hat on Obama and looked upon him as the savior is going to be sorely disappointed.
The guy could talk the fat off of Kirstie Alley.
I don’t think I know enough to evaluate whether the plan will work, although I generally oppose government plans that effectively try to “save us from ourselves” (short-term gain, long-term loss … enabling). I have to say that as an orator, he may have no superiors.
Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Don’t acknowledge the disappointing history of using government money to jump-start the economy. Although it didn’t work in the U.S. during the 1930s or in Japan in the 1990s, Obama is eager to try again. Hey - third time is the charm!
It won’t be too long now before we’ll be looking back at the Carter presidency as the good old days. Carter II is getting ready to fully demonstrate domestic/fiscal ineptness.
Well, the failed policies of the past were eventually recovered from, but be prepared for a decade of disaster.
i don’t appreciate how obama has to go public to beg for support. he was elected, last time i checked you and i cannot approve a bill. why put it back on us?
The president does not create the bill, congress does. So he goes public so the public (us) can call our Senators/Representatives to support/not support the bill. So, yes, we can approve a bill.
Those who don’t study history are doomed to repeat it. Don’t acknowledge the disappointing history of using government money to jump-start the economy. Although it didn’t work in the U.S. during the 1930s or in Japan in the 1990s, Obama is eager to try again. Hey - third time is the charm!
There was an interesting point made on one of the Sunday morning talk shows (I forget which). The Japanese stimulus plan actually DID stimulate their economy, and it GDP was growing at 2.5% by 1995. HOWEVER, the Japanese then doubled their consumption tax, which slowed things back down and put them back into a recession.
So yes, we should learn from their mistakes – but what happened in Japan in the 1990s and what is happening here now, well, that’s not an apples to apples comparison.