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Originally Posted by a.e.B.O.T.
I never said anything about 95 bills, I think we all can agree with the ridiculousness of that. What needs to be done is a few democrats going across the table with a few republicans to make one bill. I think the creation of a bill of this magnitude requires consideration from multiple angles.
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You would need 30 Democrats and 30 Republicans to pass such a bill. It would have to satisfy Democratic desire to support the lower and middle classes through jobs and program funding, while also satisfying Republican desire to spur on the economy with middle-class tax cuts.
Thirty - not a few, thirty. I think this is the wrong issue to hope for bipartisanship - others to avoid: abortion, affirmative action, rinse, repeat.
Here's the problem, and where we're not connecting: NO ONE knows what the right solution is. A LOT of people think they know the best solution, but there are multiple disagreements. It just so happens that two of the main camps, as it were, in this fight align very well with traditional Republican and Democratic views on the economy and government's role in it.
Because there's no right answer, there's no real way to say that any small group of senators would come up with a solution that's amicable to both - and CERTAINLY not in the expedited ("we don't have time for this shit!!") time frame you're encouraging. This is actually one of the root concerns I had with your first post.
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