Obama Gets Only 1 “Friedman Unit”?

Regarding this story in the Huffington Post:

“Minority Whip Jon Kyl (R-Ariz.) and nine other Republicans spoke with reporters Thursday afternoon following their House colleagues' unanimous rejection of President Obama's stimulus package Wednesday evening.

"They can cram down a stimulus package without Republican support," said Kyl, "but if that happens, then when, as we believe, in six months or so, when the American people say, 'Wait a minute, we're not better off. In fact, we're worse off than we were six months ago. Who is responsible for this and what can be done to fix it?' Republicans then are going to be in a position to say, 'We didn't have the input in this and that's why it didn't work.'"

Dear Jon Kyl,

You, President Bush and the other Republicans in Congress dug us into this economic pit over a period of 6 years. Six years of tax cut after tax cut, making sure the rich got richer. It was supposed to bring us prosperity. What did we get? A depression. Your solution? More tax cuts for the rich! How does that make any sense? We tried throwing more money to rich people. That didn’t work.

There is no magic fix for the catastrophe you helped to create. We will have to try a number of methods. But we do know one way that will not work, and that is the Bush Republican way. And, thanks to your disastrous economic policies, it will certainly take us more than one “Friedman Unit”* to succeed!


*One Friedman Unit, also known as "one Friedman" or "one F.U.", equals six months in the future.