Author Topic: A whopping 1.44% of the proposed stimulus bill is what Republicans are whining a  (Read 639 times)

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Wow... this means Republicans agree with 98.56% of Obama's bill

A whopping 1.44% of the proposed stimulus bill is what Republicans are whining about

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html
The link above characterizes the waste the GOP says is in the bill.

This amounts to about $13B in "pork" as defined by the GOP. So 13/900 * 100 = 1.44%


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Obama spoke of this today again to Brian Williams, and I think it might be a very HUGE point.

Congressional republicans agree with almost 99 percent of Obama's spending.  They are only upsets about $13 billion or so.

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Not much room there to complain when speaking on behalf of the entire party, is there 240?

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congressional repubs compiled a list of all the stuff they didn't want in this bill:
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html

It totaled $13 billion or so.  Less than 2% of the total.  They collectively support the rest.