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[davidbcoe]

I went grocery shopping today -- a fairly typical weekend activity in a house of four.  When I reached the counter to check out, the clerk, a young man with a big smile on his face, greeted me with a "Hi, how're ya doin'?"  I told him I was fine and asked how he was

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[crazywritergirl]

Only a handful in this country don't want to work. The rest are willing to do anything, even digging ditches, to keep their families fed and their mortgage paid. We have our pride, but for some reason that doesn't seem to matter to the GOP.

I just don't understand the Republican mantra that things aren't as bad as they seem. What newspapers are they reading? I have three neighbors who are unemployed, two of them in the same family. I track the stock market and almost every single company's stock has dropped far below its true value. Britain is equally bad shape, as it most of the world. It's bloody ugly and going to get even uglier before we're done. To say we need to chill out and it'll get better is just ignorant. It might be fine for the lawmakers, but it's not for the folks at the factories and the stores who are being laid off and are losing their homes.

Personally I would have preferred a more carefully crafted stimulus package, but at least there's one in the works. It won't be the last one, I can promise you. We're not out of the woods yet. The hounds are still at our heels.

[davidbcoe]

Yeah, the "things aren't really that bad" line doesn't seem very smart. And you're right: this is not the last bill aimed at economic recovery that we're going to need.