Here's a short list of what our wonderful Democrats are doing with our money: • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient. • A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film. • $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program. • $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship). • $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters. • $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters. • $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees. • $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's. • $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs. • $125 million for the Washington sewer system. • $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities. • $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion. • $75 million for "smoking cessation activities." • $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges. • $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI. • $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction. • $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River. • $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas. • $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings. • $500 million for state and local fire stations. • $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands. • $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs. • $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service. • $412 million for CDC buildings and property. • $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland. • $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service. • $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration. • $850 million for Amtrak. • $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint. • $75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies. • $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems. • $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations. If you've got an income of $500/week, and you have bills that are around $500/week, including allowing for a meager savings. Do you spend $50,000.00 a week? I've noticed more and more democrats realizing just how dumb they've been. How blinded by the mask of "sharing" that they now are coming to understand that spending more than you have, does not make you prosperous. This shit is too crazy to be funny anymore. Well, it is CHANGE. I'll give it that.
The digital television converter box coupon program will help to stimulate the television infrastructure.
Most of that seems quite reasonable. The flip side of living in a progressive civilisation is having to pay for it.
The issue is that the spending was suppossed to be stimulus. The US already has a $1 trillion deficit for 2009.
Bush earmarked $700b+ for bankers last year. Looks like those figures above pale into insignificance and will help stimulate the economy, rather than stimulate the banks coffers.
ALL OF THEM... This is supposed to be a "Stimulus" plan, not a pet project slush fund for spending money on useless shit. I think the whole plan should be scrapped. Instead I think every person that has a mortgage should get a check as Glenn Beck has suggested. There is enough money in this plan to give each and EVERY mortgage holder a check for $17,000.00 each. From there, each mortgage holder could pay down their mortgage, hence landing that money in banks to be borrowed to others. And/or Each mortgage holder could buy a new car, hence employing people in Detroit and helping the dealers and auto industry. And/or Each mortgage holder could spend that money on vacations, hence helping the airlines, car rentals, hotels, and other tourism related areas including restaurants and entertainment venues. And/or Each mortgage holder could put that money into the bank as savings, or a money market, hence giving banks lending capital they need. And/or Each mortgage holder could pool together, take all that money and fill every gas tank in American FULL for FIVE YEARS!!!! Christ, what the hell is the matter with these idiots in Washington? Of course, each and every mortgage holder could take that money and pay a mafia hit man to take out people like Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Charles Rangel to name a few... I know what you are thinking... But what about those poor people that don't have a mortgage? Well, if we that do spend that money, they benefit via employment, the ability to get financing on a car, home, whatever... They should really start teaching economics and business administration in 4K. And it should be taught by people that do not have some liberal moonbat save the planet / kill babies agenda.
St0x I have heard you argue some nonsensical points but this is the dumbest of them all. Are you telling me that in a time when the American economy is going under, Obama is justified for practically giving all of this money away to a bunch of projects that will in no way stimulate the economy. If the bill is so great why don't the democrats pass it by themselves and take credit for it come mid term elections? The reason why they won't is because they know it will fail and they want republican cover so when the bill does fail to stimulate the economy they can blame it on the republicans.
Senate votes to give a tax break to new car buyers. The plan will cost an additional $11 billion. Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation predicted the cost of bank failures will exceed its estimate from last fall and urged lawmakers to more than triple the agency's line of credit with the Treasury Department to $100 billion from the current $30 billion. http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20090203/ap_on_go_co/congress_stimulus
248 million dollars on furniture huh? I'm glad our thieving elitists can sit comfortably knowing how easy it was to fool America.
248 million on furniture is crazy. They should get all the furniture for banks that are going bankrupt.
this money will help the economy, Just not in a way people like you can easily understand. Don't worry though, I'll explain it to you using little words.... Who do you think this money is going to? People, businesses, ultimately banks... that's right brainiac, The economy.
So you actually listen to Glenn Beck? I always wondered what a person who listens to him would look like. Can you send your picture? Seriously, I'm sure your IQ gives for something else.
And this 1 trillion mark figure too is under threat from goverment spending plans (Japan will readily buy U.S. treasury to weaken it's strengthening Yen), goverments across the world are least concerned about fiscal gap, printing more n more money (and spending) is the only thing that they are focussed right now...........
Salesmen artificially inflated the economy, making it harder for anyone to buy a house and companies then took their tactics to the food you and I consume. Life is hard enough without profiteering scum. You need this crash in order to bring things back to how they should be. Let it fall, let it fall big! - WE poor people unite! The thing is there's no problem for those who own nothing, we'll be able to afford a loaf of bread shortly! Once everything hits it's actual worth that is. LET IT ALL FALL DOWN I SAY!
Change is coming, no matter if you like it or not. Even Republicans are trying to imitate democrats by voting in Michael Steele. Peace,