How is that not an abuse of power?

The government has been using the spend clause of Article I to force states to do things for years. For instance, why is the drinking age 21? Its not because the states wanted it, but because the feds wanted it. How did they get around that pesky 21st amendment that said the feds can't regulate alcohol? They said that states that have a drinking age below 21 lose 5% of their highway money.

I agree with you that this stimulus package is about power, but its not a new power grab,and its not a power grab isolated to one president or one party, but to the federal government generally.

I'm going along the lines of fellow responder JB. The Federal Government can influence the states by withholding money until they do what the Fed wants. Some may remember the 55 MPH speed limit and those that did not comply did not get Federal Matching funds for road and highway construction and repair. It's an arm twisting tool but really I think they are looking out for state jobs in the process and anyone remember where Nancy Pelosi is from ? Since 1987, she has represented the 8th Congressional District of California, which consists of four-fifths of the City and County of San Francisco???

I used to think Dick Cheney was running the country.

Where was your outrage when the Fed held up highway money to states to force them to raise the drinking age and then lower the speed limits? This is nothing new from the federal government. Of course the way out is to have a state be efficient enough to not need to take their money.

When do we say enough is enough.

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable Rights, that among these are Life, Liberty and the pursuit of Happiness. --That to secure these rights, Governments are instituted among Men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed, --That whenever any Form of Government becomes destructive of these ends, it is the Right of the People to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new Government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their Safety and Happiness.

The public employees unions made massive donations to Obama's campaign funds, as well as to those of most other left wing liberal democrats. Now it's pay-back time.

The liberals are going to make sure that the recession hurts everyone EXCEPT their paymasters in the government unions.

Richard

i see 1974 all over this morn.why reform of the dollar value can't be attended .politics is altered all the time why not the bill.

I like your source...*sarcasm*