Why is a stimulus plan for PEOPLE bad, but a larger "bailout" for BANKS good?

We were sold the damned bank bailout as a desperate necessity. And some of these banks and financial companies used OUR money to pay millions of dollars in bonuses to executives who CAUSED the need for the bailout!

Meanwhile, people are dying from lack of heat in their homes, people are being thrown out of their homes, they are losing their jobs, and the spending that has been stimulating the economy has stopped dead.

And the stimulus is a bad plan?????

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Republican fat cats won't be happy until they literally have ALL the money in the country. They won't be happy then, either.

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about how this stimulus is being forced on them like TARP, saying Obama is "exaggerating the economic crisis."

1/2 a million jobs lost by January, unemployment claims up, new layoffs every day?

Earth to De Mint...

lives to get by merit to the top of the corporate ladder, the "producers" to whom we all owe our existence.

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laughing at the working poor getting help,since basically it was the working poors' hard-earned money that helped prop up the lazy banking parasitic class.

Give money to the masses and they'll probably waste it all on strippers and bubble gum.

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That's how ignorant and delusional they are.

economy. That's only 350 million dollars. Compared to 350 billion it's a drop in the bucket. I would say to exclude anyone already worth 1 million dollars. It would end homelessness, feed the hungry and pay hospital bills. It sounds ridicules but I think it would work.
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got all of our money and now they don't want to work anymore. It does seem that our giving them welfare has taken away their will to work.

Seriously, is there some reason why the government cannot take the money back? The banks should have to account for every penny or give it back to us. I don't hear one politician saying anything really negative about the banks. They are big on accountability when it comes to regular people, but for their rich buddies anything goes.

The Bank Bailout was voted down in the house until some Repubs caved in after stock market continued to slide.

So those who voted against both are at least consistent.


The Bank Bailout was mainly a Bush/ Democrat Deal and Biden just floated the idea for a second bank bailout----hope citizens shoot it down.

OK, so a couple hundred people probably own more than 90% of all US bank stocks but we seriously DON'T want them to give up the platinum plated toilet seats in one of their 12 vacation homes do we?

it even feels right. But in our reality it's all wrong, they WANT to break America, so they'll be the richest of all.

He said in a debate in the republican primary at a time when the textile industry that was the biggest employer in the state district he represented at the time which was going under because of imports from low wage overseas “We should stop whining about job losses. A textile worker who listened to the debate said after that he did not like what he said about jobs but would have to vote for him because he was against abortion.
DeMint is also an advocate of the so-called “Fair Tax.”
In addition, we have a governor, Mark Sanford, that would by comparison make George Bush look good.
I have never been able to figure out why my fellow citizens continue to vote against their own best interests.