I really don't think either one was directly all "about" stock portfolios. However, that does bring up a good point. If Mr. Reagan's made for stronger organizations that would sustain themselves (ie: what a good stock investment is supposed to be all about) and Obama's isn't, then the current plan will never develop a environment of sustainability for those jobs to ever be able then to wean themselves off of government dependence, like Mr. Reagan's program did. This then only invites the same amount to be spent over and over again without natural economy supply and demand taking over to control the reigns for useful products and services. The only way then to wean the workers in this case would then be to "un-create" the jobs again at a later date. In other words, it wouldn't be mitigating the unemployment really, but rather would only just defer it.
It's the difference between giving a fish and teaching and allowing for one to fish on their own.

The government routinely spends billions on pork, and it didn't prevent the mess we're in. I don't understand why they think that throwing good money after bad is a good idea.

Even if small businesses create half of the jobs not allowing babysitting corporations so that they can maintain PATHETIC $10 an hour jobs in Walmart and making us- hard working taxpayer to finance for GM's employees who don't work and are in reserve along with lazy union workers who get $8000 a month by most of the time doing nothing makes no sense.

Government is not inclined to solve the problem the bast way, but inclined not to let problems for them to happen.

The same way with bigger corporations. When I was working there, whenever someone was complaining, they were not going to solve the problem, but masking it so that he or she won't complain - it's different.

Even if one compares how houses are built: those which are built by big construction corporations are the ones with worts quality. Those built by self-employed General Contractors who mainly work on referrals are the ones with best quality.

Everyone was talking how nasty big corporations are, and now everyone is spending their taxpayer money to "save" them

feel free to add to the list):

Because the primary thing they're interested in is expanding the dem voting block for future elections.

4. Because this administration is only a continuation of the last administration.

Because the primary thing they're interested in is expanding the dem voting block for future elections.

If you're not blessed with any of that crap going on in your neighborhood ... then you just have no idea what you're missing.

WHITE racists, gun-toting, rebel-flag-flying, crude, loud, rude, Redneck, Hill Billy, Bubba's

Why is small business expanding? Because when you can't find a job and you run out of unemployment insurance you do the only thing left... you start your own business. Doesn't necessarily make money, but it does count.

Maybe you can inform us how they are different from the WHITE, gun-toting, rebel, crude, loud, rude, Redneck, Hill Billy, Bubba's in the liberal democrat neighborhoods or is it you who have been missing out ?

We all know exactly what I'm talking about.

That way, hopefully some of the people here in this area can qualify for a loan and I can get my house sold (to some red-blooded good ole boy Redneck). Yuppers, they'll be right at home here.

I can hardly imagine a person who gets unemployment insurance and at the same time starts a business.

The government routinely spends billions on pork, and it didn't prevent the mess we're in. I don't understand why they think that throwing good money after bad is a good idea.

A few reasons why (feel free to add to the list):
1. Because they can.
2. Because it's YOUR money.
3. Because no one will do a damn thing about it.
4. Because this administration is only a continuation of the last administration. This allows you to quote a previous post.

ep, we do, you are using stereotypes. Have you actually talked to all of them and figured out why they voted for McCain? If so, then forgive me. But I know plenty of racist, redneck, hillibilly, bubba DEMOCRATS right in my area that wouldn't vote for Obama because he was African American and no other reason

i don't completely reject obama. i mean, he looks really "presidential" in a 2 thousand dollar suit, and he has a nice timbre to his voice.

other then that..yeah, i think the guy is nothing but a tool...made in chicago...

i'd like him a lot better if he stopped the spend-o-thon...

Prison Healthcare Now For Everyone
by KRusso
Much of the criticism of the $787 billion stimulus bill is focused on its cost. But what's really at issue is a matter of life and death. Buried deep in the package, there is an expensive new healthcare program that could jeopardize the health, even the lives, of millions of patients, yours included. [emphasis mine].
Healthcare in this country will mirror that of prison healthcare-----an already existing medical gulag. This program is so serious and one of the main reasons Daschle did’t want hearings on it. It was reported that he stated it would be far easier and faster to "slip and slide" this healthcare nightmare under the radar so the American public wouldn’t have a clue what was happening or than to have to go through the democratic channels in the Senate for discussion. Premeditatedly folks, Obama andCompany Dashcle et.al usurped the democratic process...
What you’re now getting force fed down your throats by Obama and Company is socialized medicine. It is the exact same healthcare system inmates in this country are being forced to endure. Prison healthcare is SOCIALIZED medicine. It does NOT work.

Obama has premeditatedly not posted anything on the Federal Register. For those of you who don’t know what the Federal Register is, go read about it: http://www.gpoaccess.gov/fr/
Get educated! Get your head out of the sand.

Every American should be outraged about this except of course, for the 52% that voted for Obama. But for those in that 52%, unfortunately the majority of them had (have) no idea what they voted for or had a clue of the scope and ramifications their own vote was going to have on them.

The average American “the person who pays his bills, works 10-14-16 hours per day, isn't on welfare, and pays his taxes now gets to pick up the tab for those who do nothing and produce nothing. That average American now is forced to pick up the tab for the healthcare for everyone under the new program. And of course also now funds welfare recipients indefinitely...

Families & Friends of Inmates
For those of you who are families and friends of inmates you should be very, very worried about what this president has deceitfully pushed through without any oversight and transparency.
If you have been directly or indirectly involved in the mismanagement of healthcare within a prison system, know first-hand of its mismanagement and meting out of permanent disability and death, you know first hand how bad it is. You’ll also get a taste of it yourself because you’re going to be experiencing it yourself under the healthcare plan.

Said another way for those of you who still may not understand:
If you’re 60 years old or even 70 years old, and need a knee replacement the federal government is going to take the cost of that knee replacement and divide it by the number of years that it would be helpful for you. If you don’t fit into THEIR formula as to what is "medically necessary" you aren’t going to get that knee replacement. No matter what you want and no matter what your doctor says.

That goes for any medical condition, any procedure, any surgery, any prescription drug, any cancer treatment. It’s called "standardization of care." What one doctor prescribes will be the standard for everyone. Said yet another way..... If a drug works for a person in Idaho then the formula is that the same drug will work in Ohio even if your doctor doesn’t think so.

The Federal government ladies and gentlemen does not have the authority to take the place of a private decision between a doctor and his patients. Under this program as it stands, it will. Get your seatbelt on. Get your ducks in a row. And for those of you who voted for this president, accountability is everything, yours included.
About K. Russo:
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Institute fields questions concerning consumer rights--specifically educating the public on what their rights are concerning medical care, legal representation, what their rights are concerning autopsies, what their rights are as visitors within a prison system.
~Founder and Director of The Wrongful Death Institute
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I feel the same way about this "stimulus" package as I do about the Patriot Act. Where they will have the opportunity to slip something in under your nose, they will and it's beginning to come to light slowly .

Two very dissimilar things, surly you misspeak. One compromises your personal freedoms
the other a spending package.

and what about health care in this nation?, a side issue , not germain to the thread.

...Hiding health legislation in a stimulus bill is intentional. Daschle supported the Clinton administration’s health-care overhaul in 1994, and attributed its failure to debate and delay. A year ago, Daschle wrote that the next president should act quickly before critics mount an opposition. “If that means attaching a health-care plan to the federal budget, so be it,” he said. “The issue is too important to be stalled by Senate protocol.”
~Betsy McCaughey

Republican Senators are questioning whether President Barack Obama’s stimulus bill contains the right mix of tax breaks and cash infusions to jump-start the economy. Tragically, no one from either party is objecting to the health provisions slipped in without discussion. These provisions reflect the handiwork of Tom Daschle, until recently the nominee to head the Health and Human Services Department.

Senators should read these provisions and vote against them because they are dangerous to your health. (Page numbers refer to H.R. 1 EH, pdf version).

The bill’s health rules will affect “every individual in the United States” (445, 454, 479). Your medical treatments will be tracked electronically by a federal system. Having electronic medical records at your fingertips, easily transferred to a hospital, is beneficial. It will help avoid duplicate tests and errors.

But the bill goes further. One new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446).

These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”