Rep. David Obey (D-WI): Things that are NOT wrong with the stimulus (great speech, gets applause)

[Turborama]

Run time: 08:19 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dfyqXQUnKdI   Posted on YouTube: February 13, 2009 By YouTube Member: Views on YouTube: 0   Posted on DU: February 15, 2009 By DU Member: Turborama Views on DU: 1947

 
http://www.obey.house.gov/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=681&Itemid=1">Obey's "American Recovery and Reinvestment" website

This one deserves a

too...

[otohara]

1. Why Do Republican's Hate The Arts?

and education, science and trains from LA to Vegas?

[Turborama]

3. Because they (the Christian Taliban) ran the US to the ground over 8 years and

they hate that we are going to show them how running the country should be done?

Remember this, http://latimesblogs.latimes.com/washington/2009/02/house-republica.html">"House Republicans promise Taliban insurgent tactics"?

A Freudian slip...?

[VPStoltz]

9. Because they hate everything and everyone - even, obviously, themselves.

[aaronbees]

10. Because the arts teach people to think creatively

and consider different perspectives. Can't have any of that now, can we. ;)

[underpants]

13. It also counters "Consumerism"

we vastly underfund arts (look at what even Saddam did in that respect) and the end result of a lively arts community is that it counters consumerism.

NPR actually had someone on a few weeks ago who came out and said it.

Instead of people thinking they "What do I want to GET today?" they think "What do I want to DO today?" a fundamental shift that arts funding is the genesis of.

[aaronbees]

21. Good points

:thumbsup:

[empire we are]

18. Because if

it doesn't blow something up, kill brown people, enrich their contributors, divide the country, poison the environment, vilify progressives and gays or throw people in jail they are against it.

Arts, shmarts, nothing but librul gay communists except Charlton Heston, John Wayne and Chuck Norris of course.

[Moonwalk]

19. Because the arts are dominated by Liberals who put out messages against them--

The Arts are Free Speech, and Republicans don't like anything to do with free speech. The arts and science are education, and as someone else said, education makes poor people think, realize they're being abused and used, and not only fight back, but know how to fight back. An uneducated person can't fight big business. A highly educated group of people can.

[Joe the Liberal]

2. Well said........

:applause:

[ProfessorPlum]

4. K&R good for Obey, and thanks for posting this

[CLANG]

5. Great job, Turbo. Thanks for that!

I love David Obey!!

[silverweb]

6. Well done.

I like Rep. Obey's website, too. He's got the entire bill posted along with the economic analysis.

But the reTHUGs have been trying to claim that they never had a chance to read the bill... :crazy:

It's as if reTHUGs are trying to insinuate that Dems pulled midnight switcheroos like they did so many times (remember the Patriot Act?). Projecting again-- even though it doesn't work anymore on anyone but their permanent brain-dead 20%.

[snot]

7. K&R'd; and pls don't forget to go rate it up on youtube.

[wroberts189]

8. Very strong K&R nt

[midnight]

11. Ecomomic chaos after eight years of Rep. rule.

The economy is in such trouble that, even with passage of this package, unemployment rates are expected to rise to between eight and nine percent this year. Without this package, we are warned that unemployment could explode to near eleven percent. With passage of this package, we will face a large deficit for years to come. Without it, those deficits will be devastating and we face the risk of economic chaos. Tough choices have been made in this legislation and fiscal discipline will demand more tough choices in years to come.

[Brucie Kibbutz]

12. Very good, for the most part, except for

the portion of the speech beginning at 6:25 and on through the end of the speech. That part was pure win and awesome. :patriot: K&R

[Turborama]

14. Ooooh how dare you!!!

I couldn't have described it better myself!! :toast:

K

[ihavenobias]

15. K & R, # 15

:)

[cynthia]

16. love the applause

It would have been so cool to be in the gallery that day!

[Window]

17. Thank you for posting this Turborama. This should be played over and over again

on the news cycles, and sent far and wide. Someone who actually read the bill and can explain it in detail...it's quite refreshing. A great big K/R for this.

ETA: I can't get over those republican blowhards who admitted to not ever reading the damned bill. Unbelieveable.


Peace:thumbsup:

[lxlxlxl]

20. hahaha! caught this on cspan last week and thought it deserved some air time

amazing that our professional distraction news teams didnt pick up even a second of this...cheers...