So what exactly are we to get from all this spending?

BarryP · February 10, 2009, 4:35pm

That was one expensive war, was it not?

; ^ )

MJuric · February 10, 2009, 4:38pm

I’m looking forward to the responses to your question as it has many ways to interpret it.

~Matt

blueraider_mike · February 10, 2009, 6:49pm

Which war?

Was it the war on poverty?
Or the war on drugs
Could it have been the war on educuation?
Or the the war on the planet
Could it be the war on the family

David_in_FL · February 10, 2009, 7:00pm

Which war?

Was it the war on poverty?
Or the war on drugs
Could it have been the war on educuation?
Or the the war on the planet
Could it be the war on the family

Well, we know it’s not the “war on terror”…Obama has declared that one over.

I’m sure that the terrorists were happy to hear that!

Sabrekitty · February 10, 2009, 7:03pm

Nah, it was the War on Christmas.

Fatmouse · February 10, 2009, 7:13pm

Nah, it was the War on Christmas.

I thought it was the war on the war on Christmas.

Too many victims, not enough people to sue.

TTBooooda · February 10, 2009, 7:28pm

Nothing. If it’s anything more than that, i’ll be pleasantly surprised.

Tri2HaveFun · February 10, 2009, 8:37pm

Another day older and deeper in debt.

iRan · February 10, 2009, 8:57pm

wouldn’t it have been great/ironic if BO had declared it over in front of a big banner reading “Mission Accomplished!”
.

paul_k · February 10, 2009, 9:23pm

Which war?

Was it the war on poverty?
Or the war on drugs
Could it have been the war on educuation?
Or the the war on the planet
Could it be the war on the family

Well, we know it’s not the “war on terror”…Obama has declared that one over.

I’m sure that the terrorists were happy to hear that!

wingnut46 · February 10, 2009, 9:34pm

you get (let’s exaggerate a little) FIVE MILLION JOBS.

ok, so it is going to cost 300,000 in spending to make those jobs (with a 1.5 Trillion dollar stimulus package), but don’t you feel that is worth it?

I’m in the UK at the moment and the BBC commentator that was talking about the US package tried to put 1.5 Trillion dollars in one of those funny mental pictures. Here was his:

Take ONE THOUSAND dollar bills (I’ve never seen one) and stack them one on top of another. To make a stack worth 1.5 Trillion dollars would take a stack…60 MILES high.

edwinj · February 10, 2009, 9:52pm

Actually I would like to know the answer to your question. What EXACLTY are we to get from all of this spending? Well, besides even more crippling debt?

And how about the press digging into this thing? Everything that I’ve seen reported makes this bill seem like Pork Barrel Spending Gone Wild. How is that going to get the economy turned around?

Tik · February 10, 2009, 10:17pm

Wasn’t one of the original reasons for these troubles is mismanagement of debt? At least the mortgage lending to anyone that had a pulse.
American way, we will use national debt to get out of this debt problem. Just seems backwards logic to me but what do I know or it may just be ironic.

Mito_Chondria · February 10, 2009, 10:29pm

debt and inflation.

ike · February 11, 2009, 2:45am

Ask the question the other way around: how willing are you to find what what we’ll get if we don’t do this?