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Is there anything in this stimulus package that will create long lasting (non-Government) jobs?
14th March 2009
RLP asked:
600 billion+ SO FAR of the “stimulus” package isWASTE
50m National Endowment for the Arts
60m Mob museum in Vegas
850mWildfire prevention in California
200m “study” electric cars for use in government
650m additional $$$ for DTV
400m NOAA to study habitat restoration
44m Repair to AG HQ in DC
276m State Department computer upgrades
600m to NASA for “global warming” research
600m “to help doctors, nurses and dentists” “prepare” for universal health care
209m maintenance upgrades to USDA research building
400m “upkeep upgrades” of “national treasures” like National Mall and
Smithsonian
…but that’s chump change compared to this:
1 bn to preserve 500 at risk salmon in CA
275bn to “refundable” tax credits (welfare checks)
30bn for “roads and bridges” (that’s about 5% of the “stimulus” being spent on
real “infrastructure”)
100bn to expand Medicaid
150bn to explore “alternative” energy
3.1bn for parks and fisheries improvements
20bn “nutritional assistance for middle income” Americans –this is an expansion
of food stamps to 400% of the poverty line!!!
1.5bn to build community health centers
1.9bn to the DOE to do …sit down…”basic research on physical sciences”!!!!
2.7bn for “rural water disposal” (this is to research how to get rural homes off
septic and on to sewer…really, it is)
2.5bn for “upgrades” and energy efficiency for government run housing
6.2bn to “weatherize” low income homes
2.4bn for “carbon capture technology”
350 m for std prevention
75m smoking cessation
870m bird flu
572m Coast Guard for job creation (translates to 460k per job created)
25m for ATV trail maintenance
1.5bn for “carbon capture contest”
Val
600 billion+ SO FAR of the “stimulus” package isWASTE
50m National Endowment for the Arts
60m Mob museum in Vegas
850mWildfire prevention in California
200m “study” electric cars for use in government
650m additional $$$ for DTV
400m NOAA to study habitat restoration
44m Repair to AG HQ in DC
276m State Department computer upgrades
600m to NASA for “global warming” research
600m “to help doctors, nurses and dentists” “prepare” for universal health care
209m maintenance upgrades to USDA research building
400m “upkeep upgrades” of “national treasures” like National Mall and
Smithsonian
…but that’s chump change compared to this:
1 bn to preserve 500 at risk salmon in CA
275bn to “refundable” tax credits (welfare checks)
30bn for “roads and bridges” (that’s about 5% of the “stimulus” being spent on
real “infrastructure”)
100bn to expand Medicaid
150bn to explore “alternative” energy
3.1bn for parks and fisheries improvements
20bn “nutritional assistance for middle income” Americans –this is an expansion
of food stamps to 400% of the poverty line!!!
1.5bn to build community health centers
1.9bn to the DOE to do …sit down…”basic research on physical sciences”!!!!
2.7bn for “rural water disposal” (this is to research how to get rural homes off
septic and on to sewer…really, it is)
2.5bn for “upgrades” and energy efficiency for government run housing
6.2bn to “weatherize” low income homes
2.4bn for “carbon capture technology”
350 m for std prevention
75m smoking cessation
870m bird flu
572m Coast Guard for job creation (translates to 460k per job created)
25m for ATV trail maintenance
1.5bn for “carbon capture contest”
Val
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Your question assumes that the gov’t cares about creating long lasting, non-government jobs. Isn’t the role of the gov’t to make itself bigger and the people more dependent upon it?
Comment by g8grl77 — March 18, 2009 @ 6:09 am
In a word, no.
Comment by nononsense — March 21, 2009 @ 5:58 am
No one really knows, and that’s why people elect lawyers as leaders. They like to have over 600 pages of legalese for a bill rather than 1 page of plain english. Vote for real change in 2012. Write in ahandle101.
Comment by ahandle101 — March 21, 2009 @ 2:34 pm
don’t see how any of this baloney can “make” 4 million jobs,
its nothing but payback to the unions and rewarding the states for their bad decisions on spending
Comment by J.B. K — March 23, 2009 @ 9:53 pm
Yes, especially the alternative energy sectors, which will herald the new age of industry is the US
Comment by whimsy — March 25, 2009 @ 12:47 am
My favorite is the smoking cessation money…but at the same time using smoking taxes to fund SCHIP. So when people quit smoking, how are we supposed to afford child healthcare?
Comment by emp — March 27, 2009 @ 1:33 pm
I have written my representative and asked for $2500 to re sod my yard. Somehow that didn’t get into the bill. I am surprised because everything else is getting funded.
As for jobs…no.
Comment by ken — March 29, 2009 @ 3:01 pm
No,not one single thing.
That was too easy,give us a hard one.
Have a great day in the New USSA(United Socialist States of Amerika)
AD
Comment by Angel Of Death — April 2, 2009 @ 2:43 pm
I hope to soon see a bunch of that soft bellied white colloar types employed as laborers on road crews. Just like many on these yahoo boards, a little hard work might give them some insight on what average Americans go through on a regular basis.
Comment by c.n. — April 5, 2009 @ 11:53 am
I have only had one job.
I went from high school to the Army.
The Army is the best job in the world.
I believe it is a government job.
I miss it everyday.
I am now unable to work.
I wish all jobs were government jobs.
If we take the private sectors bosses ability to rape, rob, and pillage the public away… We can vote and the public can have a say so in the goings on at the government business.
As it stands now we are at the mercy of the rich.
I do not look at my government as thieving bastards.
I do however look at businessmen that way.
Selfish Takers…
Comment by Broken Veteran — April 6, 2009 @ 10:56 am
You don’t a single thing about anything on your list, do you and,clearly, neither does the person(s) you took it from.
Hint: If you want to steal the ideas of others – don’t steal them from nitwits and idiots.
Comment by Gary F — April 7, 2009 @ 9:07 pm
It’s loaded with the govt. programs that the Dems have wanted. Pet projects. Pork. There is NOTHING to directly help the economy in general. If they REALLY wanted to stimulate and grow the economy, they’d cut corp. tax rates, capital gains, payroll taxes. That would have an immediate effect.
But, that’s not their intention. It’s their chance to grow the govt. power over the individual.
Comment by amazin'g — April 9, 2009 @ 11:50 pm
Looks like all the lobbyists have good jobs!
Comment by Di LV E — April 10, 2009 @ 9:36 pm
I have yet in my lifetime to see the answer to be anything other than no. I’m 49.
Broken Veteran,
I know exactly how you feel about servicing our great country. I miss it too!
Comment by shjOlds_442 — April 11, 2009 @ 11:31 pm