With all due respect, if you admit that the stimulus plan is, in your own words, "not perfect," why not pass a smaller bill now that is perfect ... and take another month or so to hammer out the details that aren't?
I understand the need to act quickly, but let's be honest: If it's going to take us years to recover, as many predict, what's the difference between passing one big bill now versus a smaller emergency bill now and a smaller one a month or two later that add up to the same total?
With two smaller bills, you get immediate relief up front and a price tag that's easier to swallow. That'll buy you an extra month or two to refine the entire stimulus package to make it "closer to perfect" than the current bill.
No plan may be perfect, but with the government already deep in debt and with hundreds of billions of dollars at stake in the midst of a slumping economy -- this is most definitely a bill that needs to done right the first time around. Because if you think the plan is "not perfect," how do you expect the American people to share your confidence and enthusiasm about the stimulus bill?
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