Word: fixes
(lookup in dictionary)
(lookup stats)
Dates: during 2000-2009
Sort By: most recent first
(reverse)
...when the Paulson proposal came up, she immediately wrote a letter to the local paper to voice her opposition. "A $700 billion bailout I feel is going to my grandchildren. They're going to inherit that. I don't think it's going to solve the problem. It may fix it for a while. I don't trust the government to do what they say they're going to do." She says, "I'm no genius [but] it's basically a mortgage crisis, [so] work with the homeowners and renegotiate their loans and work out something where they can make...
While Congress bickers over how to fix the financial meltdown, there's a decent chance you haven't even felt it. Why, you may be asking yourself, does everyone think there's such a big a problem when you're still being offered credit cards in the mail and 0% financing at the car dealership? Maybe you used to bank with Washington Mutual or Wachovia and overnight you've become a Chase or Wells Fargo customer, but if your money's still there, why does the rest matter...
...That's not a small consideration - especially when you're looking at a $700 billion rescue package. If your mechanic tells you that it will cost thousands to fix your car, you may reasonably want to know: if I don't make the repair, could I die? Or will the wheel just keep making a funny noise...
...lobbyists whispering in their ears. Just as this campaign has focused attention on electoral politics as never before, so did this crisis draw all eyes to Washington and how it works - and no one much liked what they saw. A government that could not lift a finger to fix health care or highways could suddenly find $700 billion for No Banker Left Behind? And so this time, people made themselves heard: they passed petitions, lit up the phone lines, melted the message boards. In an age of poisonous partisanship, it was like an antitoxin, the country drawn together...
...power in the plan. That said, these modifications were not adequate to make up for the many flaws of the bill. For example, there were proposed modifications by Congress to give the money in smaller installments, beginning with $250 billion, still a monumental sum. For a hasty plan to fix the economy with $700 billion of US taxpayers’ money, this was a hasty modification on Congress’s part. Congress should not be afraid to reject Paulson’s flawed plan, as they fortunately have just done in a close 228 to 205 vote. This highlights...