He has visited workers employed in the new renewal energy economy:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=50yOR5bvMV0

John Edwards is, also, the only candidate for President that actually went down to New Orleans on several occasions and worked along side those striving to try to bring back the areas that remain so devastated from the effects of Hurricane Katrina.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xAqktFnA4nk&feature=PlayList&p=EB1EC8919DC5DC52&index=0

or… is there a there, there…?

House Republicans have proposed an alternative that leaders say would create 6.2 million jobs for only $478 billion.

http://news.yahoo.com/s/politico/20090129/pl_politico/18160

I’m curious, what would you would say IS stimulus?

there’s a first time for everything ;=)

Justlen isn’t having a bad day, he’s just flat out right.

okay Mr. Sour puss. having a bad day? :=)

justlen

Don’t tug on Supermans cape.

Angels I sure hope you are right about Obama playing the Repubs. I really worry about the reduction in infrastructure spending in lieu of tax cuts.

the results of the search are TBA :=)

Millions for the changeover from analog to digital is NOT stimulus.

Hundreds of millions for STD programs and smoking cessation programs is NOT stimulus.

This bill is loaded with funding for social programs. This is NOT stimulus. Very little could actually be called real stimulus.

Hopefully the Senate will act with some sense and revise this albatross.

The GOP has a soul? I’ve never thought so simply because their party was never about people, only about tax cuts, big business and how to make the rich richer. Maybe I’ve gotten it wrong.

I would like to add one thing about the family planning provision being disallowed and I hope I’m not belaboring the point.

When you exclude an entire group of people and in this instance it’s women who do not have access to family planning services you automatically take them out of the equation for economic recovery. Women have been, for centuries, slaves to their biology. If you go back to the early ’60s when the Supreme Court ruled that contraceptives were not illegal that is when women were able to look at other options for their lives. More and more women were able to postpone pregnancy and went to college/university and went out into the work force. When women are allowed to control their own fertility than the world opens up for them and they have other options other than child baring.

Some of you may think that family planning services are not part of an economic recovery but for the woman who is forced to have children she is not able to afford because of her economic situation the lack of family planning services dooms her to a life of poverty. If this economic stimulus has opportunities for further education and/or jobs then poor women should be allowed to have the option of having another child or taking advantage of education and/or a job.

The provision of good family planning services benefits everyone, men and children included, and our society.

The search for the soul of the GOP

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2009/01/28/AR2009012803789.html?hpid=topnews

“we’ll keep a light on…” ?

agree, and I’ll add time will show the wisdom of Obama starting out on this foot. Subsequent cross-party dealings will be gauged by the Republicans refusing to participate in the effort to get the country back to work. They will be isolated and loe even more seats in 2010.

Obama may own this disaster. BUt we’re all going to have to pay for it. All those in Washington will still have their jobs. THeir pensions are tied to inflation. They probably aren’t looking at their kids’ college funds and wondering if their kids are now going to be going to community college for two years because the value of those funds just was cut in a third or a half. (And yes, I know families like this.)

So Washington plays it bipartisan games. Obama goes for a “win” at whatever cost. And we get the shaft. Again. Nothing’s changed. Not one thing. Except now the Democrats are throwing their weight around, instead of the Republicans. IT was unaattractive of Bush to swagger and say he was the decider, and that he had “earned’ his political capital and now he was going to spend it. It was just as unattractive for Obama to swagger and tell the GOP, “I won.”

Then on the same show, we have the wonderfully entertaining Ann Coulter – who reveals her KKK-like biase by declaring this guy in Yemen who recently became a terrorist as a man who escaped from Gitmo. Of course he did, Ann. He’s just a crazy raghead Muslim so the fact that he was released from Gitmo means he must have done the Jedi mind trick on everyone. In your feeble mind, he was automatically guilty.

I’m getting very sympathetic with Barack as he attempts to tell the right wing, Rush Limbaugh isn’t exactly the path they should be following. Limbaugh, Hannity, and Coulter are becoming more like the modern day KKK with each passing week. And when a SENATOR calls Rush to KISS HIS ASS and SUCK UP TO HIM – it makes me want to go in the bathroom and vomit for a couple of hours.