How the "Moderates" Intend to Spend Your Money / Mortgage Future Generations
in the early morning on Sunday, the 8th of February 2009 by Katie
$100,000,000 – School Lunch / Equipment assistance – p8
$500,000,000 – WIC p9
$5,000,000 – administration expenses for Food distribution program on Indian Reservations p18
12% increase for Fiscal year 2009 in the amount available for nutritional assistance to Puerto Rico and Samoa p18
+ 12% increase for Fiscal year 2010 in the amount available for nutritional assistance to Puerto Rico and Samoa p19
+ 12 % increase for Fiscal year 2011 in the amount available for nutritional assistance to Puerto Rico and Samoa p19
$200,000,000 – amount of direct emergency loans under Farm and Rural development Act p31
$150,000,000 – economic development assistance p37
$1,000,000,000 – additional money to the census p 37
$7,000,000,000 – Broadband Technologies Opportunities Program p37
of which 200,000,000 – towards expanding public computer center capacity, including at community colleges and public libraries p38
and 250,000,000 – towards programs to encourage sustainable adoption of broadband p38
and $350,000,000 – towards developing and maintaining a broadband inventory map p38
$650,000,000 – towards addition coupons for the analog to digital conversion program p39
$300,000,000 – additional funds toward “violence against women prevention and prosecution programs p43
$300,000,000 – additional funds to improve the criminal justice system, assist crime victims and youth mentoring grants
$90,000,000 – additional assistance for law enforcement activities and High – intensity drug trafficking areas along the Southern border p44
(not much compared to:)
$300,000,000 – additional assistance for Indian tribes – violent crime control, tribal courts, and prevention of alcohol and drug addition p45
Michelle Malkin has a link to the amendment on her site.
I’m not seeing much “moderation” in the amendment. Is there any sane person left in Washington?
I can’t look at more, at this point. I’ve only gotten through 45 pages of a 778 page document. My eyes are shooting blood, and I need to find some duct tape to wrap around my head before it explodes….
Our Government after their huge feeding frenzy of a stimulus package.
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February 8th, 2009 at 9:08 am
I won’t debate the value of some of the programs as they may be good and even necessary. However, I still fail to see where any of the listed items is going to stimulate the economy. When will someone explain how this spending actually will increase jobs? Combine this with the expected second TARP of one or two trillion and the chosen one will have spent more than 4 times the cost of the war on terror.
February 8th, 2009 at 12:21 pm
Barney Frank explained the jobs part, saying that any spending on any program would increase jobs. He was specifically talking about the STD prevention program, saying that money towards this would create jobs, educating about STD’s.
My biggest problem is that the till is already empty. We do not have the money. The dems are using our tax dollars to buy votes. The more people they have addicted to the dole, the more votes they secure.
I am tired of paying for everyone else. Why are people getting refunds, when they didn’t even pay taxes (how do you not pay taxes? I’ve been paying since I was 16, on my “rich” job that I got $3.15 an hour…) I am tired of all the special interests with their hands out. I am tired of paying for idiots who procreate with abandon, with no way to support them (the Octoplet mom springs to mind).
February 8th, 2009 at 1:14 pm
Barney Frank is so full of poo that it oozes out of his ears. Spending does not increase jobs. Oh sure there will be construction projects and such, but how many new jobs will be created? More educators for STD’s? How many do we possibly need? That is a low income job designed to get someone off of welfare, not provide a real job. If you want to stimulate jobs, you need incentive in the private sector to expand. That means lower business taxes. It means banks have to be able to make loans to those businesses.
If they want to really help, take care of the mortgage problems. The banks can go back to doing their business. DO what McCain was calling for during his campaign, buy up the baqd mortgages and refinance them so people can afford them again.
If Obama wants to really help the middle class, let’s not talk about lowering just income tax, but all the other taxes we pay. Get rid of the multiple taxes and surtaxes and taxes on surtaxes that we pay on our bills. Lower the gas tax. I’d love to see the sales tax around here lowered, but that is state and county. Lower FICA and all the thousands of taxes we pay. That would stimulate the economy, not an increase in federal jobs.