RePO Team … Should Scare You!

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The Reid-Pelosi-Obama (RePO) Team Vs. The Rest of America

by Newt Gingrich (more by this author)

Posted 10/15/2008 ET
Updated 10/15/2008 ET

First, this summer’s economic bailout bill put the taxpayers on the line for $152 billion. 

Then the housing bailout added $300 billion.

The Paulson bailout cost us another $700 billion.

Now Washington Democrats – already counting on complete, filibuster-proof control of the nation’s purse-strings come November – are talking about spending another $300 billion on a “stimulus package.”

That comes to a grand total of $1.45 trillion the taxpayers are being asked to provide for Washington’s ideas on how to save the economy.

But here’s the thing: Has anyone ever asked the people who are footing the bill – the taxpayers – how we’d like this money spent?

How would you spend $1.45 trillion to make America better? Today I’m going to give you an opportunity to tell America how you’d spend this money.

But first some news, with Halloween just around the corner, that should scare us all.   MORE …