President Obama's economic stimulus plan is in trouble. Conservative talking points are dominating the media's coverage and there's lots of misinformation around. Here are a few things you may not have heard about it:
1) This is a very, very good bill. As The Nation writes, "If enacted, the economic recovery plan will be one of the biggest and boldest pieces of progressive legislation in the past forty years."1
Here are some facts about what the bill really does:
Creates or saves 3 million to 4 million jobs in the next two years.2
Averts "literally hundreds of thousands of teacher layoffs"—and doubles funding for the Department of Education.3
Creates 500,000 green jobs and doubles our clean energy production.4
Immediately helps unemployed folks get affordable health insurance.5
Some folks are arguing that it should be bigger, and they're probably right, but this is the best down payment on economic recovery we have seen, and it needs to be passed.
2) The stuff that's being singled out for criticism amounts to a tiny fraction of the bill—like anti-smoking programs that make up less than one-ten-thousandth of the spending.6 They would have you believe this is the centerpiece of the bill. It is not. This kind of nit-picking is pure politics.
3) If it doesn't pass, we're in deep trouble. Even John McCain's economic adviser estimates that without the stimulus, unemployment would top 11% by 2010, the highest level since the Great Depression.7
We all urgently need to get these facts out before the public. Can you write a letter to the editor of your local paper about how the stimulus will affect real people? Our tool makes writing a letter really easy. Click here to get started:
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Schips: great way to fund it, Tax SMOKERS. ??? Now that makes sense.
u should see the banner across my roof
u should see the banner across my roof
I read it already. It says..........."One ignorant turncoat lives here."
rofl ....repigs are crazy.... i forgot stay the course , mission accomplished, strong economic fundamentals , and now chenny on his terrorist attack ....rofl....repigs have ruined america! all horse shit!
Just mail me my bailout check. I think the watermelon patch where the rose garden use to be is a nice touch.
i love watermellon and hope he puts IN THE "basketball court"