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Are you ready for the biggest re-distribution of wealth in American history?
29th December 2008
600 billion+ SO FAR of the “stimulus” package is WASTE !
275 billion to “refundable” tax credits (welfare checks for those who don’t pay ANY taxes)
150 billion to explore “alternative” energy
100 billion to expand Medicaid
20 billion “nutritional assistance for middle income” Americans (this is an expansion of food stamps to 400% of the poverty line)
6.2 billion to “weatherize” low income homes
4.2 billion to ACORN (to finance their next election with our money)
3.1 billion for parks and fisheries improvements
2.5 billion for “upgrades” and energy efficiency for government run housing
2.7 billion for “rural water disposal” (this is to research how to get rural homes off septic and on to sewer…really, it is)
1.9 billion to the DOE to do …sit down…”basic research on physical sciences”!
1.5 billion to build community health centers
1 billion to preserve 500 at risk salmon in CA
850 million Wildfire prevention in California
600 million to NASA for “global warming” research
600 million “to help doctors, nurses and dentists” “prepare” for universal health care
650 million for digital TV coupons
400 million “upkeep upgrades” of “national treasures” like National Malland Smithsonian
400 million NOAA to study habitat restoration
276 million State Department computer upgrades
209 million maintenance upgrades to USDA research building
200 million “study” electric cars for use in government
50 million National Endowment for the Arts
60 million Mob museum in Vegas
44 million Repair to AG HQ in DC
Howard W – thats EXACTLY the point. Only about 5% of this bill will create jobs. The rest is just government hand outs.
Pablo
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If it doesn’t help someone, that someone considers it to be a waste.
Comment by Pringles — January 1, 2009 @ 7:58 am
New Zeland sounds appealing..
Comment by Dave — January 1, 2009 @ 3:11 pm
Everyone is favor of this ludicrous bill needs a good dose of being *canned* …. it is fraudulent and absurd!
Comment by susisays — January 3, 2009 @ 10:59 pm
To regard the things in your list as “waste” is short sighted. This is a package designed to create jobs, which will get our economy rolling again and which will create a broader tax base. It is also taking into consideration the health of our citizens and environment, local economies, and long-term benefits. Did you know that the arts, as a whole, employs almost six million people? So a financial push for the National Endowment for the Arts – an organization seasoned in rolling money into the economy – makes a little more sense in light of that, doesn’t it? Ask the thousands of salmon fishermen who are out of work because of the alarming collapse of salmon populations if some of the stimulus package could be a help to them.
The Republican answer to getting the economy back on its feet is more tax cuts. That is ridiculously short-sighted. This is an opportunity to reinvent our economic base with things that are sustainable and good for the entire country and world. And Repubs want tax cuts instead, claiming that debased trickle-down economics is the way to go. Trickle-down doesn’t work.
Comment by Howard W — January 4, 2009 @ 7:56 am