House votes down $125 million in U.S. stimulus funds

this country is in trouble they are giving these auto makers millions and taxen cigs. but yet they are worried about giving the working man who has a family nothing at all in the stimulus package what a joke where did the money go they gave them allready in the ceos pension fund they need to give all americans a 100 thousand so people can make their house payments and the ones that are homeless set up an account and make them use it to buy a house this would be alot cheaper than what they are doing know

Jer, that’s great. You routed me. All that talk about my blaming one side was bang on. Glad you enlightened all of us about how the Republicans are to blame for this matter as well. Oh wait, you didn’t. Way to go. How black is the pot Kettle?

Also, notice how you forgot to mention Smirking Chimp Bush pushing TARP through Congress in record time. The same way he rushed through the mis-named Patriot Act.

Both of which were approved with a Democratic congress in control.  Where were all the Democrats that were trying to stop either on.  Again nowhere to be found.

Let’s also talk about how our Republican (mis)Leader handed Colin Powell “misinformation” to coerce Congress into invading Iraq. WMD’s? Found’em yet?

Is this the same presentation to the UN that was backed up by Russia, China , Great Britain and all theoother major countries of the world?

The list..it goes on and on.

But we’re talking about how VA Republicans took a moral stand all while the Republicans and their big corporation buddies have jobs. While the jobless are left to fend for themselves.
Show me how many of the jobless are dying in the streets? Not getting health care now?  The money they get is much more than many of us working people get to feed our families.

I bet the Federal Government remembers how we didn’t take the money given to us and will cut us a break on our deficit payments. What are you talking about now??
Nah, we’ll still pay the same amount as states who took the money. I’m glad food and rent can be paid with high moral ideas!
No but good ahrd work and budgeting what you have will. That should see VA through the current economy.

The only way this country will strive to be the best it can be is to get the government off the backs of the common person and let us produce and live to the best of our abilities.  Any government program that takes from these people to give to others is holding this country back. As I have said before Motley Fool you and some of your friends need to get out more and see what the real world is like instead of hiding and listening to MR Obama spout his retoric.

And common sense be damned along with it.
The halos and horns philosophy wears blinders.

Blackbeered and superdave-have written posts that combined spell out excellent explanations and perhaps even a solution.
Unfortunately and very humanly people personalize these issues.
it is very difficult or near Impossible to recognize the shortsighted aspects of this bill when your family is in need.
There are so many different scenarios right now of people in the same position. Long time malingers who have been gaming the system for years lumped with citizens who have never been out of work.
Drifters whose working careers have consisted of going from one job to another. Citizens who have been in the same jobs for decades.
It is not difficult to decide who DESERVES this assistance.
How to do it is the problem. Perhaps if the bill was enacted on a temporary basis? A time frame. No strings.
There already is a “once in five years” payment of a little over a thousand dollars paid to citizens to “tide” them over a “rough patch.“
That has just been enacted to be paid out every year.
The added problem in my opinion is the callous pandering of a governor (who knows full well the implications of this bill which Virginians will be paying the tab for long after he is gone) who is feathering his legacy nest.
This is another shortsighted feel good
redistribution plan where as much of and perhaps more of the money will go to people who have never earned it and do not deserve it.

datony, businesses are not jobs programs; they exist to deliver goods and services and make profits for their owners. When the public is not buying those goods and services, businesses have to cut their costs or they fail.  One of the biggest costs for a business is staff. True, businesses own some loyalty and care for their employees, but if it comes down to reducing staff or shuttering the business in these difficult times (dire really is over the top) responsible business owners have to do what is best for the whole organization.
No where, in any of these posts, have I seen anything about an individual’s responsibility to prepare for the potential that they might lose their job. As long as a person is an employee, (and therefore not completely in control of their destiny) he/she should do the responsible thing and keep a reserve fund against economic hard times.
At the same time, I am disgusted that some posters on this site have called the unemployed “lazy.“ That’s also over the top and shows a complete lack of humanity.
One final point, rather than paying people who are not working, I think that the government should bring unemployed people on to the payroll temporarily and let them do the work that otherwise wouldn’t get done because of budget cutbacks. As a state employee, I can tell you that government has a need for virtually every profession.  Employing people who are out of private sector work temporarily would have a number of benefits: it gets work done, gives the person the dignity of having a job to go to, gives the government value for the money it pays out in “unemployment benefits” and keeps money moving in the economy.