What exactly is in this so-called stimulus bill?
$1.1 billion for Amtrak;
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts;
$400 million for NASA to conduct climate change research;
$300 million for Americorps;
$1 billion for the Census;
$400 million for localities to buy "green" buses;
$650 million for the Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Program;
$600 million for the acquisition of "green" cars;
$7.7 billion for the Federal Buildings Fund;
F@ck you very much Obama
$819B Stimulus Bill: how does it reflect on President Obama?
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President Obama's $825,000,000,000 package passed the House of Representatives with a 244-188 vote, giving the president a large majority. However, not a single Republican voted for it and 11 Democrats voted with Republicans against the measure. President Obama spent time on Capitol Hill days before trying to get Republican votes.
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psycho 2009/01/30 18:06:30
oh and what is up with him back on the campain trail AND threatening to not run again if they did pass it? shouldnt he, i dont know, be trying to work with people to pass a bill that everyone can agree on? not just ramming his ideas through?
about 40 minutes in he mentions the republican opinion of "pork" in this bill and answers the question beautiful. i don´t understand what the problem is.
if we are going to spend this much money, we need to spend it on the things that will have a long term effect, so we can have long term jobs. what´s so hard to understand about that?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLIT...
What good does it do to give these auto manufactures all this money so they can
make new cars,when nobody can afford to buy them.He should put that money where it would do the most good.
Put it back into the hands of the people.If we had the money to buy things that we needed or wanted,the economy would get the jump start that it needs.
If he gave that money to the people there wouldn't be so many homes in foreclosure,the building industry would pick up because people would be able to make the repairs or up grades that are needed on thier homes and some of us would be able to afford to buy new homes and cars,take vacations,go out to eat more often and do the other things that we would like to do.
So Mr. President please get with the program.If you want to bailout these companies
put the money in the hands of those who are able to make that happen.
Why are the American people buying everyone else's cable box because they have an old TV? It's only $40.00....that's just part of life.
Why is the American public responsible for Bee Insurance...that's the farmers responsibility to buy their insurance....not us. Where is the accountability. Who is going to audit that this money honestly goes for Bee insurance. I bet one farmer will get a dime of insurance and the money will have been swept into a secret program they have all picked out and they need to find a legal way to skim it out of the budget.
Why is the Census in this Stimulus. It should be in it's own appropriations bill. It's not stimulating new...'
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Why are the American people buying everyone else's cable box because they have an old TV? It's only $40.00....that's just part of life.
Why is the American public responsible for Bee Insurance...that's the farmers responsibility to buy their insurance....not us. Where is the accountability. Who is going to audit that this money honestly goes for Bee insurance. I bet one farmer will get a dime of insurance and the money will have been swept into a secret program they have all picked out and they need to find a legal way to skim it out of the budget.
Why is the Census in this Stimulus. It should be in it's own appropriations bill. It's not stimulating new jobs, it's not a new budget....this has been happening since the beginning of our country. These jobs are temporary and most only lasting 5 weeks....we have already signed up to work the census and we have already taken and passed the exam. The jobs are part time and they are only for a short time. It may more damage for those that are lured into leaving their unemployment for a job that only lasts a few weeks and then have a hard time getting back on unemployment again as they have to refile all over again and there is no Unemployment for the Census...we sign knowing that on the part time positions.
The infrastructure jobs will take years to ever get off the ground. The time it takes to get a project through appropriations, planning, surveys, legislation and all the other work we won't see any of that work for a long while. If those items are already in place then why was there a stimulus as those items were close to be enacted anyway.
What most don't realize this isn't a 800 Billion dollar bailout it's a 1.2 -1.3 Trillion dollar Bailout just because of the Billions and Billions in Interest....that's interest to foreign counties.
We also can not let the treasury borrow the money from Sharia Banking. The treasury has already gone for Training in Sharia Banking in November and it's a dangerous act if they dare sign a loan. England has been suffering greatly since they took the loan. I have close friends in Politics in Parliament and they are frightened at what's happening over there. I have personally seen the changes and we can not let this happen. The warning signs are there and we have to be smart enough to beware of them.
Why the restrictions on facilities a prayer room in the building. Our country needs prayer more than ever. Do I dare not pay my taxes because of the garbage they keep wasting "OUR" money on.
This is not a Stimulus bill this is a rob you blind and we need to fool you with a whole bunch of hidden secrets behind the scenes Bill so sign fast and don't dare read it.
It takes hours just to print it out. That along is sick....
We didn't die when they told us the sky was falling on the 1st stimulus bill and the money seems to have disappeared and instead this bill they are just showing us where the money is disappearing to...wasted never to be seen again.
It's time to tighten the belts and if you got yourself in debt...that's hard times but the whole nation should have to go further into debt forever to pay for it. The debt doesn't go away...just like they did with all the housing loans they are just trying to make the good people that were paying their bills and taxes pay for those that got over extended.
There was another Queen in history that was a master manipulator ... but she was thrown out a window and the dogs ate her. Her name was Jezebel.
obama did not create the problem but he must deal with it.
Constitution Party, Libertarian Party, Green Party, and the such would be a good mix of views!
Enron is an excellent example of that! They cheated and lied to their stockholders, and Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac did the same thing. They should have been allowed to go down!
How many millionnaires have lost and re-earned their fortunes in a lifetime? Who bailed them out? They did themselves, because they learned how to manage money, and changed their mistakes into right management.
If you make good business decisions, even if they are hard ones, people will respond in kind when they see the good of what is being done. Obama has chosen to follow in the very same steps of failure that were taken in the 30's, and it will lead us down the primrose path to depression all over again!
Blast bi-partisan support! And blast partisan support. What we needed was a leader, and we got a flunky with a high IQ and an over-inflated ego instead.
Just watch and wait, and see how many other unintelligent decisions he makes for us!
It has got pork. It is a 40-year wish list. It has all the stuff that you heard about. It's novel length -- a late Norman Mailer novel long. You throw a dart at it and you will have on any page six items which are outrageous.
Now, what's ironic about all this is that Obama ran as the man who would redo our politics, who would eliminate the lobbying and the special interests and the earmarks.
This is the largest earmark bill - earmark, but without stealth, just out in the open -- of special interests, favors, parochial interests, in American history.
And so,It is under his aegis.And endorsed by Him and pushed hard upon America by him..
So if it passes it will show that all he has said during his campaign was...
Simply Empty Rhetoric by a Empty Suit...