Senate OKs $1.1 Trillion Spending Bill

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Monday, December 14. 2009

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The Senate passed on Sunday a massive spending bill that wraps up $1.1 trillion of the $3.6 trillion annual budget for fiscal year 2010, which started Oct. 1.

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#1 cats on 12/14/09 at 01:10 PM

The numbers are so huge, I just cannot wrap my mind around them.
I guess I better hope that I stay employed so that my piddly tax dollars can continue to be paid.

#2 the truth on 12/14/09 at 02:02 PM

you go obammy show everybody that "change you can beleive in" and i thought mr peanut carter was the worst president this country ever had.not by a long shot.

#3 2 cents on 12/14/09 at 10:27 PM

Wow! What a legacy we are leaving for our
Children. There is not going to be anything
Left of the great America dream when Obama
Gets through with us. And we though our enemys
Lived in the middle east. They are running our government.
We have been infiltrated by the enemy.
I have always heard if it quacks like a duck and walks like duck
And looks like a duck its not a cow its a duck.
We have a government filled with american enemies.

#4 Anonymous on 12/15/09 at 09:59 AM

What makes you think that there was any other option? Are you an economist? Do you understand that government spending got us out of the last depression?

#5 wdm on 12/15/09 at 06:35 PM

World War II got America out of the Great Depression.

#6 Anonymous on 12/15/09 at 08:39 PM

there you go. govt spending money on war. something has to stimulate the economy when the private sector stalls.

#7 Anonymous on 12/16/09 at 04:08 PM

When will the wars going on NOW get us out of this depression??

#8 wdm on 12/16/09 at 05:18 PM

Unfortunately, America doesn't manufacture anything anymore so it doesn't matter how much the government spends. A large percentage of the money is going overseas. Like the cash for clunkers...6 out of 10 cars bought through the program were imports.

#9 Anonymous on 12/16/09 at 11:44 PM

Different cause this time around. But the solution is similar. Someone has to stimulate the economy when private citizens are unable due to lay offs etc..The government is the only entity that has/can create the resources at this time. It is not an ideal solution but sometimes drastic action is needed. No action would be worse and recovery would be longer. People can not continue to live off of unemployment while the system "fixes" itself. This isnt a typical economic fluctuation.

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