Why does the Republican party have a defeated attitude toward the stimulus legislation?

OK, I get it. The biggest gripe of the Republican party is that the stimulus legislation is going to spend huge amounts of money. Everyone agrees on that. Nobody is denying that it is going to be an expensive step in an effort to repair the economy. The argument has been made that it may not work. One side believes it will work and the other believes it won't. But, the talking point of the Republicans, aside from the whole fear of socialism, is that the stimulus is going to run up our national debt spending huge amounts of money on government expenses and giving state agencies blank checks to spend however they see fit which inevitably will lead to mismanagement and corruption and ultimately cause a massive debt we may never recover from.





Of course, this is a worse case scenario that is simply being made the most likely scenario according to the Republican argument.





Now, for what I don't get. Republicans made no beef about starting a costly war in Iraq. They defended the idea we may need to stay in Iraq indefinitely at the cost of billions (if not trillions) annually. They supported sending billions of dollars to repair and rebuild the infrastructure of not just Iraq and Afghanistan but many other nations as well. So, why is it ok to spend billions to trillions of dollars on wars and helping other nations, but, if we spend any money helping our own nation then we are going to be 'ruined'? There is a war in America. The war on poverty. The war on unemployment. The war on corporate corruption. The war on a failing infrastructure. Would calling it a war and giving it a fancy operation name like Operation save our nation make it easier for Republicans?|||they're pathological, reptilian brained dinosaurs, that's why. They'll say or do ANYTHING to get their way no matter what it is. Over-compensating perhaps. Don't confuse them with reason.|||so the best way of getting out of debt... is ... to ... spend... more?? thats as retarded as it sounds.. don't let the politicians lie to you.. Spending money is spending money.. and its not EVEN THE GOVERNMENTS MONEY ITS OUR MONEY!!! SO WHILE WE ALL GET BROKE WE ARE GOING TO LET THE GOV SPEND OUR EARNED MONEY!!!?!?!?!?!





seriously where do you people come from?|||Bite Me said We need to spend more to get out of debt . With that logic and lack of


education credit card holders could charge more and pay less monthly .The credit


Card company's would not give you a smaller bill.|||lately, that seems to be their general attitude towards anything.|||Sigh...|||What is wrong with spending lots of money to get US soldiers killed so that hopefully one day those who did not die and are not wounded enough to drive can get cheaper gas prices?





I mean, who would spend lots of money to make people's lives better by allowing them to have things like jobs? Jobs are so overrated, when you can go to Iraq or Afganistan and die why not do that? Seriously, even an education in the US costs you a part of you body!!!|||Lets see, even FDR's economic adviser after WWII said that his policies prolonged the Great Depression. The left ignore this fact. Also, take a look at what the Democrats have done in certain areas. Cleveland Ohio is a good idea of what can happen.





Also, we didn't start the war in Iraq. Saddam did when he invaded Kuwait then not only ignored the UN but also was bribing the Secretary General of the UN along with Russia, France, and Germany. Also, you must not of followed the agreements that Bush made with the new government of Iraq to pull out of Iraq based on need of the Iraqi people.





As for the war on poverty, considering the liberals rewrote the rules in the 1990's to redefine poverty to make it jump from 10% to now around 30% or more and the larger families can have a gross income that is almost considered rich there is a huge problem. There is no war on unemployment. We need a certain amount of unemployment to make sure that everything runs correctly. I could go on but you don't have a clue on what is really going on in the World. Try going to Europe and compare what they have on average compared to what our poor have and it will really open your eyes. Then go to a third world nation and see true poverty.