Mark Steyn
The only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to do nothing -- Edmund Burke
Seniors need relief on their RRIF's equity portion, which have plunged 40-50%, the auto industry needs help, the U.S. has effectively nationalized about 10% of the banks, Freedom 55 now looks like Freedom 75, small businesses work 10-12 hour days trying to stay afloat,there will be increased layoffs because of the slowing U.S. economy, yet the 3 Stooges felt this was an appropriate time to go for the jugular. We had a relatively stable but slowing economy and they by their ignorance, crass political opportunism, greed ,Lust for power, big egos, thought this would be a great time to throw gasoline on the fire?
Dion - Lying down with Separatists
"Claims that such "investments" will create five million jobs are false. It's likely more jobs will be killed than created due to higher costs and increased inefficiency of the U.S. economy. A recent report from the Center for Data Analysis at the Heritage Foundation found that limiting CO2 emissions under recent proposed legislation would destroy 900,000 net jobs."