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The Republicans want to offer an alternative plan to scrap “wasteful” spending and add on more tax cuts.

“There’s widespread agreement that we need a stimulus package,” he said on CNN. But he said too much of the House bill was wasteful spending.

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Let me be blunt… are they fucking kidding us?! Let’s look at the map. John Q. Public loses his job. Does he give a rat’s ass if he gets a tax cut on the paycheck he isn’t receiving anymore?! No, John Q. Public needs a bloody job. The engineers, surveyors, medical workers, our highly trained professional workers, need to keep their employment… those unemployed need to become reemployed, we don’t need a tax cut. What the heck is $20 extra a month going to do for me and the rest in the middle and lower classes? How out of touch are Republicans?

A tax cut to McDonalds do they can keep on a couple more $7 an hour wage workers? The auto industry is laying people off, tax cut or not! And those layoffs cascade through numerous industries.

Wasteful spending? Republicans wouldn’t know wasteful spending if it bit them in the arse! This “wasteful spending” is actually employment! Employment is crucial because people without jobs can’t pay their mortgage, people without jobs can’t help progress our economy by spending some money, and most importantly people without jobs don’t see a dime in a tax cut!

Republicans and their Disney-Lemming like followers need to wake up. The US needs to keep employment as high as possible, not tax cuts. Bush passed a huge tax cut in 2001 and we have seen dismal economic progress since then. What is it going to take for them to realize what the true priorities are?