Obama to sign stimulus bill on Tuesday. I'd do it today.

[Cant trust em]

I'd do it today and make big hay about needing to do it as quickly as possible because every day we delay costs Americans their jobs. Too much time has been wasted already.

[Old Codger]

1. Remember

Sunshine before signing??? The bill is up for revue by the public.


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog_post/update_on_sunlight_before_signing/


http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/09/02/13/ARRA-for-comment/

don't know how well these work the second one locked me up.

[Champion Jack]

2. Thanks

[Igel]

3. To what end?

Isn't review now irrelevant?

Or is he saying if there are enough scathing comments he'll veto the bill?

Do you seriously believe there's a chance of that happening? Isn't the opportunity for comment more important when amendments are possible. But that's precisely when there was virtually no review, just essential chaos and haste before the impending catastrophe.

It's the same as the meetings my grad program had a couple of times a year: The faculty would organize them so grad students could get together and whine. They then completely ignored us and went to finish doing what they'd already decided they would do before hearing our complaints. Later it got worse: We'd complain, they'd tell us we were wrong and bad grad students for not seeing the wisdom of what they were doing. Serious grad students didn't go to the meetings, or if they did they took something important to do. They were a waste of time early on, and dangerous later.

[Old Codger]

4. Got Me

I have no idea what this period is for, all it says is he would not sign a bill without it, then he proceeded to do so on several. If he gets complaints I doubt anything would happen he has only two options, sign it or veto it. and I seriously doubt enough people would read it and file complaints to make any difference. If he did in fact veto it it becomes open to amendment again.