Second Stimulus passes house.

[mrstickball]

ultima said:

mrstickball said:
What about the fact Obama is spending it on war AND job development that has gone nowhere? At least Bush spent it on one thing.

You can't try to justify Obama's idiocy by using Bushes idiocy as justification. Neither were right. The only difference is that Obama is spending far, far more.

Bush left Obama with a lot of crap on his plate. I mean there are 2 wars you can't just pull out of immediately and then there's the screwed up economy. I don't think it's fair to blame Obama for spending more...

1. Popular opinion on both wars is very low. Obama was elected as being very left of center when it came to the wars, yet we have not pulled out. As commander in chief, he does have the lattitude to authorize these kinds of things.
2. Just because you have a screwed up economy doesn't mean you have to spend money. Look at the trillion dollars the government spent - both under Bush and Obama. What has it done for us? Unemployment is above their (Obama's team, not Bushes) projections even if we spent nothing at all. 
3. Stop using Bush as a scapegoat. Obama is almost on his second year now. Obama passed $800 billion in stimulus and it got us nothing. Obama made a ton of promises that have got us nothing thus far. How many years into Obama's presidency can you stop blaming Bush? 1 year? 2 years? 5 years?
4. If Obamas spending was justified, why is it that we're having to have another $200 billion jobs bill to get jobs back on track? Why wasn't $800 billion enough to 'fix' the economy? Do you realize that is more than $3,000 spent for every man, woman and child in the US and we still have worse unemployment now than we were projected to?