Even high estimates for an early draft of the health care plan are "less than the $1.8 trillion cost of the Bush tax cuts."
"In the first round of repayments" from financial institutions that received TARP money, "the government has actually turned a profit."
Inside the stimulus package "is anti-Christian legislation that will stop churches from using public schools for meeting on Sundays, as well as Boy Scouts and student Bible study groups."
Says Vice President Joe Biden "admits that the American people are being scammed" with the economic stimulus package.
In the 100 days since its passage, the economic stimulus has "saved or created nearly 150,000 jobs."
"Our government has now 'spent, lent, or committed' $12.8 trillion in its attempt to blunt the recession."
"Congress shoveled $700 billion into the Troubled Assets Relief Program, $325 billion of which has been spent without purchasing any toxic assets."
"Secretary Geithner has left the option on the table" of abandoning the dollar for a multinational currency.
"Warren (Buffett) still does support me."
On whether he wrote a provision that allowed AIG to dole out bonuses.
"Tens of billions of dollars (from taxpayer-funded bailouts) ... flowed straight through AIG into the coffers of foreign corporations and foreign banks."
"Senator Chris Dodd, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, placed an amendment in the ‘stimulus’ bill that allowed for banks bailed out with taxpayer money — including AIG — to hand out huge bonuses."
AIG "said they were giving $57 million (in retention payments) to people who were being terminated."
"We had bipartisan legislation that got through the Senate" that would have prevented bonuses like AIG's "and then somehow mysteriously disappeared."
"Last week the Blue Chip Economic Indicators came out that surveys lots of private forecasters. Almost all of them are predicting a turnaround in the third quarter and positive growth in the fourth quarter."
"The average CEO makes $10,000 more every day ... than what the average worker makes every year."
Louisiana is turning down $100 million "that would require us to change our unemployment law, that would have actually raised taxes on Louisiana businesses."
There is a provision in the economic stimulus plan that means that "students cannot meet together in their dorms, if that dorm has been repaired with this federal money, and have a prayer group or a Bible study."
The Congressional Budget Office "estimates that only 15 percent of this stimulus package will be spent in 2009" and only 37 percent in 2010.
On attacks by Republicans that various programs in the economic stimulus plan are not stimulative, "If you add all that stuff up, it accounts for less than 1 percent of the overall package."
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