Originally Posted by highsky

...I could go on and on, but I won't.

Originally Posted by captexpress

Well at least we agree on the importance of jobs. Under Reagan, Bush I and II, loose regulation and massive deficit spending and nary a peep from the conservatives in the R party? So America finally gets it's fill and O's administration inherits the mess and now has to decide, do we try to stimulate the economy or just let it ride? (Which by the way was begun under the previous admin. through TARP) Now, all the self righteous types come crawling out from the under woodwork to suddenly cry foul? Where where these people before when their party was spending like a bunch of drunken sailors? (No offense to drunken sailors, as some of them are my very good friends). Makes you question their real motivation. Had the party focused less on Republicanism and more on Conservatism, perhaps we wouldn't be in this dilemma. I guess it is the job of the minority party to throw stones, but at some point, being an American and doing what is right is more important than partisan politics.

So in my book it comes down to this, you either subscribe to the concept of a stimulus or you do not. If you do not, you had better have been prepared to bet your job on it, because almost everyone, (including most R's when pressed to put aside their minority partisan agenda) agree that a stimulus is needed and that the outcome of letting banks just fail, along with large companies, would have put incredible "additional" stress on an already stressed out economy. Putting several hundred thousand more people on the street and causing additional strain on the stock market, most economists agree would have started a domino effect and downward spiral from which we might not have recovered. If you think FedEx had a hard time of it now.......imagine what could have happened? Furloughs or worse?

No one likes where we find ourselves and there aren't many easy choices, but as Americans we need to begin to get ourselves out of this mess and put safeguards in place to avoid a similar calamity in the future. Do we run the risk of increased deficits and mounting debt in the future? Absolutely. There is much at stake, but hopefully if the economy is sufficiently stabilized, if the stimulus begins to take hold and we see better job numbers...we may be on the road to recovery.

So yes, we agree about the importance of jobs and so it seems do the majority of Americans. I fully support this president, his party and those republicans who are working together to make this right.

PS. Since you brought up Albie....he is a good man and he has been gracious with his time, but honestly, I think there is a vast difference between maintaining your independence as a Union Rep and supporting a candidate whose agenda violates the very essence of our core union principles. Baseball Style arbitration would have decimated the RLA by taking away your one and only form of leverage and that is just one example of his record. It's like calling yourself an American, but then flying a hammer and sickle.