Dems Happy With Stimulus Tweaks, Expect Request for $350B TARP Money

Wastrel or profligate is an oldfashioned word but it fits the Bush/Cheney/Paulson trio very well.

I hope Congress has finally gotten smart enough to not give the rest of TARP to them.

bush and his thug party have raped america for 8 years now it will take obama and us tax payers to repair all teh destruction bush has brought on us.

Great now more weak banks can buy up the profitable banks, and give out million dollar bonuses and severance/retirement packages to the folks who ran these banks into the ground, on the taxpayers dime. And this solves the housing crisis/credit crunch HOW??? By giving golden parachutes to thieves and crooks? WHY are the Democrats, let alone the Republicans cheering this giveaway of taxpayer dollars!?! Oh well, I guess more of the same is what accounts for "Change" these days. It's one thing to let this happen, it's another to let people be REWARDED for it AFTER they have been proven guilty. Oh well, I guess we'll all just re-elect them like we always do. And you wonder how/why things continue to get worse.

bush and his thug party have raped america for 8 years now it will take obama and us tax payers to repair all teh destruction bush has brought on us.

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It took this guy 20 years to figure out what his pastor was preaching. So, good luck with that.

Any future stimulate should go directly to the tax payers of this land. Why not issue a check for $100,000.00 to each and every tax payer family. People could catch up on their mortgage, credit cards, have money to spend in their hands.

This is UNBELIEVABLE. Obama is 8 days away from taking office and he is going to hand this money over to Bush and Paulson??? PATHETIC! This is absolutely BIZARRE!!!! We are living in bizarro world.

The tweaking was directing the 50 million dollar bonuses from republican CEO's to democratic CEO's.

when will america wake up? i hope I live to see the day when the streets burn and the houses on 5th avenue and buildings on wall and broad crumble burying the ashes for good

Michael, that would require about 10 trillion dollars or 14 times the 700 billion that was approved.

REAL CHANGE - - Another secrete back room deal... yeah... so much for open Government.... BO is such a GOOD liar..... so how much pork are the Democratic Senators getting.....

Infrastructure projects are temporary. They don't make much of a difference, it doesn't hit the heart of america's problem. This "new deal" so to say, doesn't come 360. It doesn't cause ripple effect. How is education, the core of american economy, which is currently failing, going to be changed by these infrastructure projects?

Seriously, this is just another small patch on something that is growing and ready to crash.

So what are the Dems priorities? Obviously not Republican priorities? So will that mean Pelosi/Reid lock out all stimulus for Republican districts? Does it mean there will be no watch on waste that Republicans want? Does it mean there is no bipartisanship? Guess Pleosi decided that last week when she ended Republican imposed rules to allow the opposition to have a say in legislation and end term limits for committee chairs. Guess that leaves crooks Rangel and Frank in as chairs forever.Sounds like the Dems will be ignoring 46% of the population.

Infusing all this Monopoly Money into our economy devalues our currency and demoralizes our work ethic. It's a short-sighted solution that is no solution.

jschmidt That's right suckaaa. Dems rule now.

The BS machine has been cranked up to eleven.

Went out to eat tonight. The place was packed when we got there and packed when we left. 30 to 40 minute wait. Also, the 8 or more other resturants were also packed. These are places like Olive Garden, Red Lobster, Stickey Fingers, not the Ritz I know but not excatly McDonalds either. The mall close by was also packed. I realize people are losing their jobs and things are getting tight but I don't believe things are as bad as the media wants us to believe. You watch, starting Jan 21, 2009 the media will start reporting how things are looking up. All this to make Obama and the dems look like miracle workers. I'm not falling for it. I have yet to go to a store, mall or anyplace of entertainment and see people walking around, not spending money. Bass Pro was so crowded today and lines at the check out 10 deep

can'tseeit You'll see it soon. Bush screwed up the economy so bad it'll take years to get this under control. Thank god we got someone like Obama coming to the rescue.

"Democratic lawmakers demanding more accountability for the money" This shows how stupid the Democrats are, THEY wrote and passed the law, why didn’t they put this so-called accountability in ????…..Cause we know they don’t really want to know... especially Chucky Schumer, he is in the Wall Street bankers back pocket, where do you think NYC gets all its money from.. they are just trying to make the Administration look bad for the LAW THEY PASSED

the old Dem Bolsheviks in Congress can now party big time at taxpayer expense..