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$0-250 billion $100 billion: "That should be enough to start the process." Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! $751 billion-plus $1 trillion: "Just go all in." Lee Papa, The Rude Pundit "$500 billion a year for at least two years; so at least $1 trillion." Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community Other/no number "Think big: $400-600 billion (2.5-4 percent of GDP) or it won't do much." Greg Dworkin, Daily Kos |
$0-250 billion $0: "Right now, everything being done is too opaque. We don't know enough of what the dangers are, we're just being told to trust the government. Given how much the government's views have changed in the recent months, I want to know more before the government commits billions to restore the economy." David Gerstman, Soccer Dad $0: "The solution to economic problems caused by excessive borrowing is not to borrow lots more money." David Kopel, The Volokh Conspiracy $0: "In an economic crisis, Americans need to be more liquid. Tying more money up in government spending is the wrong way to go about it. We need tax cuts, not spending." Rob Port, Say Anything $0: "The bailout package is sufficient. Nothing more than that required." Michael van der Galien, PoliGazette $0: "I don't believe in economic stimulus packages." Bookworm, Bookworm Room Other/no number "Not one dime of it will help. A cut in corporate taxes would help, but that's not on the table." Dan McLaughlin, Baseball Crank |
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YES "And he should be willing to accept as a compromise truly free elections, i.e.: within five days of the cards being filed; at off-worksite voting locations; no anti-union propaganda delivered during work hours or mandatory attendance at same; criminal penalties (prison) for management personnel who fire or threaten to fire organizers; binding arbitration for the first contract." Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community "It's already passed in the House, but Obama should make sure he works with the Senate to ensure passage. The Senate Republicans have already shown what they'll do to break unions with the auto bridge loan vote." Tracy Viselli, Reno And Its Discontents "He doesn't need to push; just not stand in the way. If the economy is going to get back on its feet, we need to rebuild a vibrant (pre-Bush) middle class. This is a good step in the right direction." Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny! "It's called the Employee Free Choice Act, and it's one of the best ways to ensure that the assault on the middle class ends." Jane Hamsher, Firedoglake |
YES "I think he should because card-check is a losing proposition. The unions may want it, but it's going to be tough selling Americans on the idea that a secret ballot for labor organizing is a bad thing." Rob Port, Say Anything NO "EFCA is shaping up as next year's key domestic battle, even if many on the right are still behind the curve on it." Walter Olson, Overlawyered "Taking away the secret ballot is a direct assault on the right of free association." David Kopel, The Volokh Conspiracy "It's a horrible law: Big Brother-like." Michael van der Galien, PoliGazette "From a strictly Republican partisan perspective, card check is a great battle to fight. But it's bad for the country." Dan McLaughlin, Baseball Crank "This takes away the right to a secret ballot for union members. It's just plain wrong." Robert Miller, JoshuaPundit "Because it is one terribly undemocratic idea!" D.S. Hube, The Colossus Of Rhodey |
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YES "I'm traveling in Senegal and Mali. They have no middle class to speak of -- just the very rich and, predominantly, the very poor. It's a natural extension of the Bush Economic Miracle, and the Democrats better reverse it -- fast, for all our sakes!" Howie Klein, Down With Tyranny!
"It's hard to say right now. We need to get a look at how the Senate behaves once Obama is president." Tracy Viselli, Reno And Its Discontents IT DEPENDS/OTHER ""The Right will fight this tooth and nail, and it may be that it will be shoved aside or used as a bargaining chip to pass higher-priority legislation." Barbara O'Brien, The Mahablog "A lot, if not everything, depends on what happens in Minnesota and Illinois. If Democrats take both seats, then I expect it to pass." Chris Bowers, Open Left "Something will pass. I'm not sure what." Mark Kleiman, The Reality-Based Community |
YES "President Obama has a bill due with the unions. If Democrats want union mobilization for the midterms, Obama's gonna have to pay up." Bob Parks, Black & Right NO "The bill's real kicker is its provision imposing union contracts through mandatory arbitration. To gain that, unions might stand down on card-check itself, maybe in favor of snap elections (held soon after union demand) that would let them say they kept the secret ballot." Walter Olson, Overlawyered "With Sen. Lincoln backing off, the numbers are looking worse and worse." David Gerstman, Soccer Dad "Keep Hope Alive!" Michael van der Galien, PoliGazette "The GOP will hold the line and win over wobbly Democrats. The politics is awful in light of SEIU's involvement in the Blagojevich scandal and the UAW's culpability for the downfall of the Big Three." Dan McLaughlin, Baseball Crank |