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Guard troops find 92-year-old ice storm survivor.
Glad to know she survived. But that ice storm was how long ago?
*looks it up* January 27-28. A week.
Why is the power still out across the US? More than 400,000 Americans are without power from a storm that happened a week ago. It's like we've regressed back to, say, a second world country and haven't noticed.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Republicans are now trying to bog down the stimulus bill.
That's the bill with money for our infrastructure. Have they noticed the 92-year-old woman nearly freezing to death in her house? The 56 people dead so far? From an ice storm?
The Republicans want more tax cuts. Didn't Bush's tax cuts dig us into this mess in the first place -- mindlessly cutting taxes at a time we went to war?
The Republicans want to "fix the mortgage crisis." Hey, I'm all for that. But the Republican solution is to create 4 - 4.5% mortgage rates for people with good credit. People with good credit? Those aren't the people being foreclosed on! Those aren't the 2.6 million people laid off in 2008!
The people with good credit are the Republicans themselves. They're trying to use the economic crisis to get a good deal to refinance their own damned multimillion dollar houses.
ETA: Oh, now they're trotting out a list of what they don't like in the stimulus bill, trying to get people to focus on $25 million dollars for rural waste disposal instead of the $150 billion dollars for education.
ETA2: *splutter* They're protesting a $500 increase in Pell Grant awards? I'm going to school largely because of a Pell Grant.
Glad to know she survived. But that ice storm was how long ago?
*looks it up* January 27-28. A week.
Why is the power still out across the US? More than 400,000 Americans are without power from a storm that happened a week ago. It's like we've regressed back to, say, a second world country and haven't noticed.
Meanwhile, back at the ranch, the Republicans are now trying to bog down the stimulus bill.
That's the bill with money for our infrastructure. Have they noticed the 92-year-old woman nearly freezing to death in her house? The 56 people dead so far? From an ice storm?
The Republicans want more tax cuts. Didn't Bush's tax cuts dig us into this mess in the first place -- mindlessly cutting taxes at a time we went to war?
The Republicans want to "fix the mortgage crisis." Hey, I'm all for that. But the Republican solution is to create 4 - 4.5% mortgage rates for people with good credit. People with good credit? Those aren't the people being foreclosed on! Those aren't the 2.6 million people laid off in 2008!
The people with good credit are the Republicans themselves. They're trying to use the economic crisis to get a good deal to refinance their own damned multimillion dollar houses.
ETA: Oh, now they're trotting out a list of what they don't like in the stimulus bill, trying to get people to focus on $25 million dollars for rural waste disposal instead of the $150 billion dollars for education.
ETA2: *splutter* They're protesting a $500 increase in Pell Grant awards? I'm going to school largely because of a Pell Grant.
