Deja Vu? No house republican voted for the stimulus

[CatWoman]

wasn't the same true for Clinton's stimulus and job creation package?

[rwheeler31]

1. They are afraid of stimulation it sounds dirty.

[lonestarnot]

2. Snort

:rofl:

[maddezmom]

3. I was thinking the same thing CatWoman

here is a good link about it:

Seismic Stimulus: The California Quake's Creative Destruction

The earth literally had to move to jolt Congress into passing a stiumulus package -- and to lift California out of recession.

Peter Dreier and Richard Rothstein | June 23, 1994



In April 1993, Congress rejected President Clinton's proposal for $16 billion of economic stimulus and public investment. Opponents attacked it as pork barrel politics, tax-and-spend liberalism, and a budget-buster. Yet a year later, the same Congress easily passed a series of Clinton proposals to increase the fiscal deficit by spending $9.5 billion on emergency assistance and public works for Southern California. The difference, of course, was the Los Angeles earthquake, an event that revealed a great deal about the nation's ideological fault lines.

The disaster that rocked Southern California in January was the costliest in U.S. history. Sixty-one people died. More than 9,000 were injured. The quake destroyed more than $15 billion of property, including 21,000 housing units. It devastated highways in the nation's most auto-dependent region. The federal government provided disaster relief for Southern California, duplicating and expanding actions it took after the Midwest, South Florida, and other regions were ravaged by natural disasters.

The infusion of funds demonstrated what a well-timed shock of public spending can do for a depressed economy. Ultimately, Southern California received many more dollars in public infrastructure funding than it would have obtained from its share of Clinton's 1993 stimulus proposal. Indeed, when emergency aid for last summer's midwest floods is added, national deficit spending for disaster relief has, in the Clinton administration, actually exceeded the level proposed in the defeated April '93 package.

And it has worked. Less than six months after the earthquake, Southern California has finally joined the national economic recovery. Reeling from defense layoffs and previously expected to endure another six months of recession, California is now experiencing economic growth and net job creation for the first time since 1990.


more:http://www.prospect.org/cs/articles?article=seismic_stimulus

[CatWoman]

13. thanks very much, M

:hi:

[Booster]

4. They're not for any stimulus that might help people - they

only want to help corporations.

[Hansel]

9. Because the people aren't the ones lining their pockets.

These guys are bought and paid for by corporate America and they do exactly what they are told to do.

[Hope And Change]

5. THIS IS SOCIALISM!!!

:eyes:

[senseandsensibility]

6. You got it

They screamed that Clinton's bill would cause a recession, and when they were PROVEN wrong, no one called them on it. Journalists never did of course, but even the Dems stayed mum. It's ridiculous how people don't learn from even recent history. Right now I'm listening to tweety treating far right wingers and Jim Cramer, of all people, with respect as they blow about the economy. He was not as respectful to Barbara Lee. What a jerk.

[SoFlaJet]

8. Tweety went against any idea of this bill

when his pro life stance was threatened with the contraception and sex ed stuff...Rachel is right this guy is BARELY a liberal

[senseandsensibility]

10. You may be right

I remember him "prattling" about that a couple of days ago.

[indepat]

7. 'pukes voted in virtual goose-stepping lock-step to fund junior's multi-trillion dollar pre-emptive

wars of aggression, creating multi-trillion dollar deficits and tens of trillions of dollars of losses in the stock markets and damage to the general economy. Now they vote in goose-stepping lock-step to block economic stimulus that surely would ease some of the pain. I shan't dignify the sons-of-bitches by calling them motherfuckers. :P

[Beacool]

11. Not only that, 11 Democrats also voted against it.

:-(

[CatWoman]

14. saw that

take it they are "bluedogs"?

[wyldwolf]

12. it's deja vu all over again

[Justitia]

15. Yup - dumbasses then, dumbasses now. -eom

[Historic NY]

16. well let them kiss ass to get any benefit then.

[Clear Blue Sky]

17. They will be screwed when it works and they were against it.

[Thrill]

18. Clinton's helped them to regain the majority. Problem is this one doesn't have a tax INCREASE

which was the main argument they used to win Congress in the mid term elections.

They think voting against it will help them win back the majority