Voters strongly agree with the perspective that “No matter how bad things are, Congress can always find a way to make them worse.” Fifty-eight percent (58%) share that view, and only 26% disagree.At least we have some bipartisanship among voters. A majority also figures Congress does not understand what's in the bill.
Voting for this pig in a poke will have consequences.
Democrats in the House shut Republicans totally out of the crafting of the bill. It's their bill. In the Senate, only 3 Republicans joined the Dems and ended up with a bill even more expensive than the House bill:
America is in the midst of a serious economic crisis. At some point, however, we will all have to face an even larger crisis: We have a $1.2 trillion deficit. The national debt is approaching $11 trillion. Soon we’ll be voting on an Omnibus Appropriations bill that will cost another $400 billion. This week, Secretary Geithner is expected to propose another round of bank bailouts that could cost up to $2 trillion. Including interest, the bill before us will cost $1.2 trillion.Rather than work on a truly bipartisan bill the president is out campaigning. If it's such a great bill why does he need to do that? He has the votes, he has the majority, doesn't he?
“Americans are asking themselves ‘Where does it end?’ They want to know how we’re going to pay for all this. They’re worried. And they should be worried about a bill so big that it’s equivalent to spending more than $1 million dollars a day for more than three thousand years. This is an enormous amount of money.
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