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Originally Posted by MMM
You are talking about the stimulus package that was passed just before Bush exited office. This was the package that was over 1000 pages and had been put together for months until a last minute negotiation that changes a few percentage points. Some republican senators liked to spout the fact that that "no one had time to read it", but it was like watching "Titanic", and then voting on "Titanic, The Director's Cut" with a few minutes of changes. OK, maybe you hadn't seen this version, but don't pretend like you hadn't seen the movie.
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Obama signed the stimulus package into law. So I do not think where talking about the same thing. Even so, he only signed on to it, mainly being the democrat bill not his. Also on the this whole "director cut" idea of a bill, I don't care for what changes that happen to a bill, they better will see to it that it is in the peoples interest. They are after all our ELECTED officials. Also the package was signed into law on FEB 17, 2009. One more thing it was 1100 pages. Might I add one of the main things Obama said he would show is transparency? Meaning that We the people should of had more then 12 hours to actually look at the bill online.
The house passed an 819 billion, which got toned done to 787 billion in the senate. it's not that no one had time to read it it's the fact that they gave no time to read it, and pretty much no one in congress has read the full thing. That's a serious problem.
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