Lame-Duck Stimulus? Probably Not

Thanks for the update "kid"

why do a few big corporations get huge bucks for resorts and the good life while the people who need it most get a lousy few hundred dollars? how come the people get so little respect? is that just the way it is? put the rich on pedestals so they can s h t on the poor folks?

People need to suck up and learn the value of real jobs and hardship.

I have known several people who have not drawn any unemployment because they found jobs that keep the people working and not abuse the system.

Extending these payments just tell the workers that they dont need to work until they find a job that pays as much as they did before.

Before unemployment, people worked because they wanted to eat.

James,

Yea, right James, why extend unemployment benefits in this awesome economy where there are tons of jobs. What a joke people are. I can see you are not hurting to feed your family or pay your mortgage. Im sure if you were you would be singing a different tune. But I guess you figure the I'm Ok, Your Ok attitude works best for you, so screw the rest of us.

James are you crazy. People need the extra unemployment. Just because you have a job does not mean everyone else has one and if you know where the jobs are then please tell all of America where to find them

what a shame that someone thinks we can all build roads and bridges that will take years. I would think an economic stimulus would mean stimulating the economy, meaning 'spendable' money. People out of work and those on social security should have had stimulus checks in November and December. Many of the stores could have had a decent holiday season. too.

Maybe what James wants is all these people to work at McDonalds. That's the conservative way, work work work, and if you don't make enough money, then find more work. It's capitalism for the little guy, and socialism for the big guy. And then they cry socialism when the government lends a helping hand to the little guy.

Some of you are hilarious soooo, why not send everyone gift certificates ?

Patriotism - Do the Right Thing for the USA

Hey Dubya - stop your insipid Horse - Crap and do whatever Barrack Obama and Joe Biden tell you to do - tell your dog Dickya to do the same - if you have any patriotism in ya - ya woulda already resigned on day after election - you created and left several crises and distasters for the new team - fortunately and thank God they are up for the task - so just get out and take your dog Dickya withya - dont worry about history - you have a 5 point legacy - 1) crashed economy - 2) Iraq - 3)Katrina -preventable ya shoulda built the levies 4) 911 -also preventable - why was USAF on the ground when 2nd plane hit - 5) stole 2 elections.-

All 5 points of your criminal legacy which you and your corrupt gangsta administration should be prosecuted for : the key prosecution witnesses - 1) Paul ONeil US Treasury Secretary for economy and 2) Colin Powell (Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame) for Iraq and disasterous foreign Policy 3) people of NOLA for Katrina 4) people of NYC for 911 5) 62+million voters for Barrack Obama Joe Biden (who also voted for John Kerry and Al Gore) for 2004 and 2000 stolen electionsall the best (LOL) to ya and ya dog Dickya on ya exile in Paraguay (FYI - thats a country in South America where a lot of Nazis fled after their horrific crimes) Orange County Republicans (LOL) for Barrack Obama & Joe Biden

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Patriotism - Do the Right Thing for the USA

Hey Dubya - stop your insipid Horse - Crap and do whatever Barrack Obama and Joe Biden tell you to do - tell your dog Dickya to do the same - if you have any patriotism in ya - ya woulda already resigned on day after election - you created and left several crises and distasters for the new team - fortunately and thank God they are up for the task - so just get out and take your dog Dickya withya - dont worry about history - you have a 5 point legacy - 1) crashed economy - 2) Iraq - 3)Katrina -preventable ya shoulda built the levies 4) 911 -also preventable - why was USAF on the ground when 2nd plane hit - 5) stole 2 elections.-

All 5 points of your criminal legacy which you and your corrupt gangsta administration should be prosecuted for : the key prosecution witnesses - 1) Paul ONeil US Treasury Secretary for economy and 2) Colin Powell (Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame) for Iraq and disasterous foreign Policy 3) people of NOLA for Katrina 4) people of NYC for 911 5) 62+million voters for Barrack Obama Joe Biden (who also voted for John Kerry and Al Gore) for 2004 and 2000 stolen electionsall the best (LOL) to ya and ya dog Dickya on ya exile in Paraguay (FYI - thats a country in South America where a lot of Nazis fled after their horrific crimes) Orange County Republicans (LOL) for Barrack Obama & Joe Biden

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Patriotism - Do the Right Thing for the USA

Hey Dubya - stop your insipid Horse - Crap and do whatever Barrack Obama and Joe Biden tell you to do - tell your dog Dickya to do the same - if you have any patriotism in ya - ya woulda already resigned on day after election - you created and left several crises and distasters for the new team - fortunately and thank God they are up for the task - so just get out and take your dog Dickya withya - dont worry about history - you have a 5 point legacy - 1) crashed economy - 2) Iraq - 3)Katrina -preventable ya shoulda built the levies 4) 911 -also preventable - why was USAF on the ground when 2nd plane hit - 5) stole 2 elections.-

All 5 points of your criminal legacy which you and your corrupt gangsta administration should be prosecuted for : the key prosecution witnesses - 1) Paul ONeil US Treasury Secretary for economy and 2) Colin Powell (Joe Wilson & Valerie Plame) for Iraq and disasterous foreign Policy 3) people of NOLA for Katrina 4) people of NYC for 911 5) 62+million voters for Barrack Obama Joe Biden (who also voted for John Kerry and Al Gore) for 2004 and 2000 stolen electionsall the best (LOL) to ya and ya dog Dickya on ya exile in Paraguay (FYI - thats a country in South America where a lot of Nazis fled after their horrific crimes) Orange County Republicans (LOL) for Barrack Obama & Joe Biden

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George,

Everybody is talking about the next Economic Stimulus Package. It looks like there will be close a $1 Trillion hand out from the US Government (The People) to Banks and other Businesses.

What about the people who are over 50 years old and have been laid off? Why can't the US Government offer a tax break to employers who hire people who are 50 years old and older; perhaps on a gradient level, more of a tax break if the person is 51 compared to 50; more of a tax break if the person is 52 compared to 51, etc. These people have already seen their 401K become a 200.5K and they will not be able to retire until they reach the age of 66, 70 or beyond! These people face age discrimination from employment agencies and human resource departments. The US offer tax breaks to employers who hire veterans and offer paid college education to college grads if they work for the peace corps, or teach in an inner city low income city. The people who have been laid off and are 50 years old or older have an extremely difficult time getting hired. These individuals will not job hop. They need to work. Now is the time for the US Government to offer a tax break to the employer as an incentive to hiring these individuals. A $600 or $1,000 payout does not last as long as a long term permanent job. What's right is right! Do the Right Thing!!!!!

come on JANURARY.

when will the big gov give do it right?because of corps getting money they really dont need the million dollar bonuses get handed out like usual.put an immediate stop on all exec and chair bonuses , regulate the use of the money to go to the right places and there will be more money for more needs.helping those in foreclosure danger is one thing but what about helping putting those who lost everything back on track with a new house and mortgage.oh ya , whatya say about firing all those who illegally, unethically and unmorally got rich from running the game on those who lost.no severance and no unemployment , they got enough to support multiple families for a few years.matter of fact with the disposable cash and property owned they could open a business and employ a few people without anykind of loan money.why should these crooks benefit twice for the same thing.

what we really need,is for Obama to tell the fbi and all other government agencies, to release the"REAL" evidence on 9-11-01. Keep gas prices low, just go and take iraq,or better yet,just leave them to destroy their own country,feed our kids and homless and quit giving other countries billions of dollars for them to rise against us. Open your eye's people. The more we give them, the more they have to destroy us..... Traeing is fine as far as the stocks are concerned. But i think and believe that we should tell the companies that want to take there businesses over seas to pay less on labor should be banned from the U.S.A.

I love how the Fed always comes out with, "we cut the rates again to help"...to help who??? Banks get the money and sit on it. They don't lend it cause they know times are tough and some of us had to resort to living off credit cards, huh, no loan there.
Give me the stimulus check and guess where it goes...back to the credit card company that just rose my rates, cause they know times are tough....
The Fed wants to help? How about telling credit card companies that they can only charge 5% maximum...forever.
Make it easier to file for bankruptcy...the loan sharks get a percentage anyway when they "charge off" an account. The 400 a month I pay to see my debt to credit cards unchanged just might be spent on products...which creates jobs...duh.

why is it that when the price of oil was this low it was .999 or less a gallion for gas. now we still have to pay alot more for that so to the big oil companys merry christmas and next time use vasoline. they get richer and we go broke even more. they know we need it to go to work and then we try to do anything special for our family we cannot afford it cuz we dont have the extra income and im tired of working 60 hrs a week and have nothing to show for it.

As we pass environmental regulations, the price of converting oil to gas increases.

It is time the govenment looks at the people! Give $100,000 or more to every taxpayer and see how fast the economy booms!
and I agree with Stephen. those older than 50 looking for jobs have it really tough! Give incentives to hire those in that age brackets and raise the unemployment checks to age equivelent status!

James, you should turn down Social Security when you become eligible if you feel so strongly about working; that is, if you aren't eligible already because it was the 'working people' at the time that actually got it in. They also called them Communists at the time. Suppose you think that's welfare too! By the way, if you do turn it down, SS that is, I'll give you my address and you can send the monthly check to me. I'll make sure it's spent wisely. Also, you should probably volunteer to work on Labor Day. Give somebody else the day off who really appreciates it.

So, the US economy is in the dumper, 1 beacause of war across the ocean and for what? oil? billions of dollars going to a war and we haven't even got close to Mr. Towel head Osama. Billions of dollars that the Iragi Gov owes the great USA and have we got it back? NOPE. Why? It still sits in their banks! Sure we can't blame Bush for everything, some yes. Lets put all the crooks from Wall Street behind bars, but first, lets make sure we get all their millions of dollars back that they stole from us hard working stiffs, then stick'm with real killers!
Let's stop paying for other country's hard times and lets concentrate on our country! We should come first, then the rest of the world second! Where are all these realestate brokers now? spending the unlucky peoples money who blew it on an adjustable rate mortgage, desperate people do stupid things. Fixed rate is the only way to go. You people knew what you were getting into and now you've lost everything. Stupid is, is stupid does. If you like to loose your own money, send it to me, I will be smart and get everything I owe paid off, at least you will know where your money went.
I hope Obama is the savoir for our great nation, god knows we did some one to get our country back in order and stop the BIG EASY SPENDERS AT CAPITAL HILL spending more for less.
God bless this country, we surely will need it and soon!

we will certainly hold your administration accountable for this stimulus program. you better get much more in the way of controlling this package and rule out the pork barrel and ear mark projects or we will be wasting billions of dollars. Some of the proposed expenditures are totally ridiculous. You still need a way to rule out some of these suggested ways to the spend money. the mayors and governors have some really bad ideas on this. It's going to take time and vigilance to protect us from wasted money. I'm still not convinced there has been any where near the time needed to rule out waste. No time to loose but this package is no where near ready.

I love George! He is so easy to understand when he explains situations that are of the political nature I get alot of clarity. I understand the "bailout" concept, but I am so upset that they paid those individuals big bucks...my question is big bucks for what??? Didn't the bank fail isn't that why they got the bailout,,,so it looks like to me the big executives failed at their jobs and now they get fat bonuses for failing. I want that damn job! I am very worried about our economy, what is going to happen to those of us that don't make any money? I am a new graduate, $20,000 in school loans, and NO Teaching Jobs out there.....my ship is sinking faster than I ever could have imagined. What is gonna to happen to the economy? How long will this happen?

Stepanapolouass..you are a ass.....

i live in owensboro,ky and just sbout every job here is laying off.And you say there are jobs out there,bull.You people dont know what you are talking about.Where i work at has only 90 people left and it used to have 500.And other factors here that are laying off 48 people amonth.And some just working 3 days aweek.This isnt looking good.