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Ross Douthat echoes my point about the lack of policy imagination or guts among the congressional centrists who whittled down the Senate version of the stimulus package. In a way, I would almost be more excited about some crazy-ginormous $2 trillion plan that would have spent $100 billion on a new electrical grid and crisscrossed the country with bullet trains and covered the deserts with solar collectors. At least, there would some cool 1960s "can-do" energy and spirit in the darned thing. Of course, even better would have been a plan that acknowledged that while the government may cushion the impact of the downturn, it's going to be the private sector that restores prosperity. How about 50 percent Green New Deal and 50 percent Reaganomics 2.0? Now there's your compromise. Well, there's always the next stimulus package.

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"Build infrastructure" 2-5 years after the environmental studies - no help
Mass transportation system is a joke, most people do use mass transit. I see 10 - 12 buses on my way to work with maybe 4 people in them. What does that cost?
Inability to pay for higher education, loans, grants and long term saving. That’s how I paid for mine.
Tax rebates for people that do not need them, everyone needs tax breaks, the government is spending too much on "wishes it could be this way ideas" Less money in the government’s hands means more in the economy.
I would prefer that they do nothing.
The stimulus package the U.S. Congress is completing would raise the government’s commitment to solving the financial crisis to $9.7 trillion, enough to pay off more than 90 percent of the nation’s home mortgages.

Larry of CA 5:29PM February 09, 2009

Please write "Build infrastructure" 1,000 times on the chalkboard please. People need jobs, the country's mass transportation system is almost that of a third world country and no one is getting much smarter with the inability to pay for higher education and we still need tax rebates for people that do not need them, cut me a break.

? of NJ 3:59PM February 09, 2009

Please write "Build infrastructure" 1,000 times on the chalkboard please. People need jobs, the country's mass transportation system is almost that of a third world country and no one is getting much smarter with the inability to pay for higher education and we still need tax rebates for people that do not need them, cut me a break.

? of NJ 3:59PM February 09, 2009

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