YOUR COMMENTS

Mr. Tausch won't be the first to cry "foul" when all this spending starts to catch up. Although it's honorable that he puts forth this effort..it's a hard lesson to learn that he "voted in this pork bed...now he must lay it!" for many, many years to come. Unfortunately, he took us with him. to Mr. Tausch: Please spare me your tears, you should have "listened" instead of "watching" the politicians. They were pretty clear which way it was going to go. Based on results, you chose NOT to listen.
- nhyitbos, laconia

Mr Fred Taush is full od it. Does he have a plan that is better than Obama's. Like the rest of the GOP, they are full of it and we no longer trust them.
- jo rossi, Andover, Ma

Sue, where exactly are the republican answers to the problems?

If they had any, they would not have gotten creamed in the last two elections!

Tax cuts have NOT created jobs; just put more money in the pockets of people who were already wealthy.

It's time for a new approach and if you are unable to understand that then get out of the way and let others solve the problems that we face. Voting "NO" on everything is not solving the country's problems.

The country has spoken and it does not believe that republican ideology is the answer. Deal with it!
- Frank, Manchester

Frank: I would never ever expect a handout -- since I'm not a special interest liberal group.

I am having a good laugh at anyone who thinks giving money to ACORN, or to handout condoms is going to do anything to bolster the economy.

Might as well throw the money in a river somewhere. Also, your friend Barney Frank and Maxine Waters insisted that FM/FM were just fine.. even as GOP admonished them -- even Bubba Clinton admitted it was Democrats. You can't keep up the johnny one note 'Bush' mantra forever, it just doesn't work.

There's gonna be a LOT more of 'buyer's remorse' you will see.. and it's been barely a month! Frank, What is it about Obama working for the bankers that you don't get?
- Sue, Manchester

You asked for it. You got it. Obama.
- David Govett, Davis, CA

Being called obtuse by someone named "Spike" is really pretty comical!

Beyond all the ignorant comments from people who think tax cuts will create jobs......that made my day!
- Frank, Manchester

No, Chris, unemployment premiums, payroll taxes, and mandated benefits are paid for by the EMPLOYEE. If I have a job, for which my boss pays me $7 per hour plus $5 in government mandates, his cost to employ me is $12. He doesn't care whether I get all the money or some goes to the state. I have to make him $12 (plus the cost of his overhead) or I will be fired. If the state imposes additional duties on my boss, MY productivity must increase or my wage must decrease or the boss must find a machine to do my work.

This is perhaps an excessive response to Frank's obtuse sarcasm, but you fell into a fallacy that needs to be rebutted in this era of employer-bashing.
- Spike, Brentwood NH

So this guy voted for Obama-Pelosi, and now is shocked, shocked at the biggest spending spree in American history. Fred Tauche, how many Nigerian kings have you given your bank account numbers too?
- Dave, Saint Paul, Minn

Frank, unemployment compensation is paid for w/ an insurance policy whose premiums are paid by your employer.
- Chris, Manchester

Don't worry Brad, if you're not working then you're not paying any taxes anyway. Just make sure to turn down your unemployment compensation. Nobody needs a safety net in this economy.
- Frank, Manchester

This is not a stimulus package, it is a spending package. Nothing new here! No "change" here except the outrageous price tag to future taxpayers. Obama is helping his buddies and hanging the working class out to dry. One sure fire way to stimulate the economy is to eliminate the income tax completely across the board. That alone would encourage companies to do business here in the United States and would provide jobs and lasting economic growth. The way things are going now I give us two more years to hit the bottom, the credit card companies will be in line for their bail outs, Gm Ford and Chrysler will be finished since no one will be able to afford a car, China stops buying our debt. Our currency becomes toilet paper, food shortages not for lack of food but more the lack of money to transport it where it needs to go. Hungry, homeless families, then WAR! Bloody revolution! So Union Leader, are you going to censor me again with this one?
- JOSEPH, Mishawaka, Indiana

Hope and change? BAIT AND SWITCH! I knew a con man when I saw him. But too many people wanted desperately to believe.

But in all honesty McCain wasn't much better. If the republic is to survive we need a new political class and urgently.

A lot of people I know wrote in Ron Paul. I thought of doing that myself. But voting FOR Obama? That was for suckers.
- Rowland, Fremont

"The stimulus package should have a caveat added to it; all the idiots who are against it should be prohibited from receiving any benefits from it.
- Frank, Manchester"

I'm all for that idea, so long as we also get a caveat that prohibits us from bearing the enormous cost.

Unfortunately, we're not allowed to opt out.
- Brad, Olathe, KS

Obama spent almost exactly as much yesterday as Bush spent on 8 years of war.

I was not for the war, but the stimulus spending is just as asinine.
- Kevin C, Nashua

Thank you Mr. Tausch for being honest enough to admit you got swept up in the pop culture fever that exists in our election standards today. It seems we have a process that has gone from electing those with actual experience and a record of success to electing based on Gender, race, or Hollywood stardom.

We owe everything we now have from our weak criminal system, to gangs, to being a society who has been told having standards and accountability from ourselves, our neighbors, and our leadership is wrong on ourselves for electing the leadership we do. We even allow ourselves to be called racists when our leaders fail to enforce our own immigration laws regardless of the obvious strain on our society from our leaders turning a blind eye and pretending to care about our security.

All I would ask Mr. Tausch is that people such as you keep speaking the truth as you see it and be willing to step forward and lead. Finding someone willing to take a position of leadership is hard enough, but finding someone with a successful background and knowledge of economics and common sense seems to be even harder. What we end up with are activists who have ideas that seem to be based on feel good emotions rather than proven beliefs. Help us keep America as the founding fathers intended and not as we have slowly destroyed be following bad leadership for decades and throwing common sense out the window.

One does not have to be a Democrat or Republican to know when things are not working. They just need to face the truth and admit it and bring back standards to live by. The standards we've been stripped of. The standards of the generations who came before us before we got to this point.
- Ross, Derry

Wow. A Republican with a catchy acronym, vague discontent, and no solution other than getting more people to "participate in the process." Play this out and we will have another batch of pork-and-favors candidates, and they will all lose.

Because look at the opposition: Frank says, "I hope you're VERY secure in your job....all the idiots who are against [Obama's spending bill] should be prohibited from receiving any benefits from it." A storm trooper for the hope-and-change revolution. Here's a better idea, Frank: Let's agree that everyone receiving a government check has an inherent conflict of interest and ought not vote.
- Spike, Brentwood NH

Sure, republicans are the answer! What a joke. It was their deficit spending throughout the bush years that got us into this mess.
- Frank, Manchester

Tausch ... , after voting Republican for most of his life, supported Barack Obama in the last election ...

Tausch said "... I thought that when Obama talked about change, he was including that he would be more cautious about how we spend money."

Are you frakking kidding me??? Where in the dictionary does the word "CHANGE" have this meaning?

How in the name of all that's good and honorable does someone this gullible, naive and oblivious to recent current events amass a fortune large enough to blow $100,000 on such pointless grandstanding?? The stimulus is a done deal, Fred. It's been on Nancy Pelosi's desk since late 2006. It was guaranteed by YOUR thoughtless vote! Now you get to live with the consequences. I hope you enjoy seeing your business and most of your future income absorbed by the State.

All you dupes who blindly voted for "CHANGE" are going to get it: change from a Constitutional Republic to a Socialist Plutocracy. The so-called "stimulus" is just the first step.
- R. Romano, Hartford, CT

You commenters need to grow up. I hope you're VERY secure in your job.

The stimulus package should have a caveat added to it; all the idiots who are against it should be prohibited from receiving any benefits from it.
- Frank, Manchester

Well, thanks Tausch, for supporting this idiot to begin with. You're a day late and a few dollars short, I'm afraid. Save us the trouble and vote Republican next time, OK?
- mike s, eugene

You are sitting in your kitchen.. the grass is getting very high. YOu think? I can either go out and cut the grass myself, or borrow money and go more into debt so the little bobby across the street who is a lazy do nothing can have a job he does not deserve... If your name is Nancy Pelosi or Sen Reid? You borrow the money.. wait: not "your" money, the guy down the street's money.. then you hire lazy bobby, pay him with someone else's money, and tell everyone how great you are... WE ARE DOOMED.
- tom, manchester, nh

I found the site and it's great. Good for this man to start this. I am scared about this spending. My kids will be repaying this to China for decades. www.stewardofprosperity.org.
- Beth, Manchester, NH

Tausch is a registered independent who, after voting Republican for most of his life, supported Barack Obama in the last election, even contributing $2,300 to the cause
Tausch said he "got excited about his message. There was not a lot of fiscal discipline in either party, and I thought that when Obama talked about change, he was including that he would be more cautious about how we spend money. And that's just not the case."
What the heck were you expecting buddy? Seriously the guy said he supported every silly liberal cause there is an you expected him to be a fiscal conservative????? Well maybe you should ask for your $2300 back and use your organization "STEWARD" to steward folks into actually knowing who the hacks they vote for actually represent. Good luck it sounds like you wasted $2300 on a "hope and Change" bumpersticker.
- Andy, Milford

Why is it that people write articles about websites but never include the URL? I can't find this site anywhere. No offense but this guy can't be too bright if he believed ANYTHING Barack Hussein Obama said in the first place.. Sheeesh, what did he think?

Besides the spending giveaways to all the liberal special interests, (frisbees, ACORN, condoms, ATV trails, lightbulbs, and every bad group out there) there is a universal health care and gun grab hidden inside as well. We are doomed people, doomed!

*** Editor's note: The URL will be added. ***
- Sue, Manchester