Well, actually pdq has made a suggestion that the Repubs are now trying to get out of the proposed package: aid to the states...

I agree with pdq... Face it, 45 states are now ind deficit and that isn't a good thing and can only bring about lay-offs of state workers... Part of stimulating is stopping the bleeding and shoring up the sate budegets could save a couple more million jobs from drying up...

The Repubs in Congress don't see it this way... They want every dollar to produce a "new job"... We are a long way from that pie-in-the-sky wishfull thinking...

Stopping the bleeding needs to come first...

Basics 101...

B~