Comments on: But Wait, There’s More Waste!

By: fact based

fact based — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 12:04:04 +0000

the cost of fixing the banking system destoyed by the wall steeters who “went on a bender” and then “got a hangover” while the W admin was asleep and then Secy of Treas Goldman Sachs kicked the can down the road because he couldnt bear to let citi and bof a et al go down will be $2 trillion. Money down the drain and if you understand finance you will realize it has to be done

and then money is right down the toilet it doesnt even pay for honeybee insurance. Not to mention the tens of millions of jobs caused by that hangover.

By: JoetheVeep

JoetheVeep — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 00:41:21 +0000

Hey, Kaz! Same Kaz? It’s Urquhart. Check out my site: http://joetheveep.blogspot.com. Needs a little update about Joe’s big new Middle Class deal. (this message will self-destruct as soon as the editors come by, because it’s way off topic)

By: Kaz

Kaz — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 23:32:40 +0000

The Republican leadership are the worst communicators on the face of the earth. If they only recited two lines repeatedly over the next 2 weeks Obama’s favorable ratings would plummet:

1) “only 7 percent will be spent by the end of fiscal 2009″
2) “the stimulus bill will add $2,700 to the $34,000 of national debt every American man, woman, and child already owes”

Repeat, repeat, repeat until the MSM can no longer ignore you.

By: JoetheVeep

JoetheVeep — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 21:27:08 +0000

Protect our nation’s apiaries. They are our only bulwark against the bee epidemic. (Saw a movie about a bee epidemic once; it wasn’t good.) But I do hope that there’s plenty of dickering and amending before this thing goes to conference. Gives more time to tear it apart. Drip, drip, drip.

By: Oneon1isto

Oneon1isto — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:12:20 +0000

…so perhaps the honeybee insurance is to help cope against the honey bee epidemic

By: Oneon1isto

Oneon1isto — Sat, 31 Jan 2009 16:09:41 +0000

It’s been 1.2 trillion, Moira. That’s the original number plus interest costs on the original 850 and change. Your post makes it seem like the package is growing at a high clip, where in reality we still have the same bill–you’re just finding out more about it. Keep that up by the way. This is sort of off topic, but not. Honey-bee populations are being decimated and no one’s quite sure why. Honey-bee farmers (who raise them not just for the honey but for the work they do in pollination) are being hit hard by this mysterious epidemic. The bad part is that if you lose honeybees, you lose most of your pollinating insects, and that’s bad news for farmers and planters.