House Dem Whip Steny Hoyer shouts at GOP after leaders adjourn chamber before Democrats can call for a vote on the Senate payroll tax cut extension, while GOP negotiators sit alone at table awaiting compromise talks.
Just in time for Christmas, the Republican-led House of Representatives has reversed course and decided to serve crow as the main dish for their end-of-year meal.
They need to be.......
If Social Security is in trouble why are we stealing $40 billion dollars from the it to supposedly stimulate the economy?
They couldn’t stimulate the economy with $787 billion (*ARRA) dollars. Now they are going to stimulate the economy with $40 billion bucks (is about 5% of a $787 billion dollars). Amazing!!!
It will not work!!They plan to pay back the $40 billion dollars by hiding a fee being added to all government back mortgages. So if you get a $ 200,000 mortgage in the future you will be paying about $180 bucks per year to pay this back
*Both the House and the Senate versions of the
American
Recovery and
R[b]einvestment [b]Act were primarily written by Democratic Congressional committee leaders and their staffs and $787 billion pumped into the economy