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Kasz216 on 28 October 2008
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akuma587 said:
Kasz216 said:
akuma587 said:
Welfare for the rich confirmed. We spend about $30 billion a year on welfare for the poor, but the average "welfare" for the rich is almost triple that. Yet you don't hear Republicans complaining about that do you.

Weren't the republicans the ones who voted against the Bailout in the first place stating that there wasn't enough regulations and checks on it... and that some of them were just completly against welfare of any kind?

I'm pretty sure that was the house republicans who did that.


Either way... where's the oversight?  This is the difference between regulation and oversight.  The congress could eaisly block this from happening and demand the money back... yet.

Bush was the one who proposed it.

And there isn't regulation or oversight as far as I can tell.

With near unanmious support... while a large number of republicans were against it.

Bush was "going maverick" on the plan.  Either that or a large portion of the republican house was.

Your choice.  It was a democratic backed bill more then a republican backed one and it took a LOT of arm twisting to get republicans to agree to it... and there was a lot of complaining from the republicans.

Also all the money spend is open to congressional review... thanks to the republicans.  So... plenty of oversight.

Unless you think Obama has been lying when he claimed that we should demand back money spend wrongly.