A Stone Deaf Senate vs. the People's Will?

by jwright~
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The U.S. Senate is poised to vote and pass a humungous non-stimulus bill that according to the latest Rasmussen poll, 62 % of U.S. voters want the plan to include more tax cuts and less government spending. Just 14% would like it to move in the opposite direction.
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Unfortunately, the majority isn’t being heard this time around except by 216 Republicans and 11 House Democrats who thus far are against it. It’s a Democrat bill.
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A few days ago the Congressional Budget Office (CBO), the Senate’s “watch dog,” claimed that this overstuffed bill would do more damage in the end than it would help. According to even the best Democrat sources, this pork-laden bill will only create about 1.3 million jobs at best; that at a huge cost of more than $120,000 dollars each according to one Senator, and all at your grandkids expense. Well, boys and girls, the U.S. Treasury doesn’t have $815 billion spare dollars in it so the money will have to be borrowed and paid back eventually by someone. None of this has changed any Democrat Senator’s mind.
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Several months ago when the so-called “Comprehensive Immigration Bill” was placed before the Senate, the people made it abundantly clear that this was not what they wanted. Upon hearing that loud and clear, the Senate let the bill die. This go-round, with a Democrat controlled Senate and House, it’s fat city and our future taxpayers are going to pay the bill. I find that unconscionable and highly irresponsible.
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I’m a conservative that is all for seeing President Obama succeed, as long as what he espouses is for the greater good of the country. If it’s only an expensive, wasteful measure to ensure that his party and those elected representatives in it succeed and gain in political power, then count me out.
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jaq~