On Fri, Jan 30, 2009 at 3:57 PM, Nicholas Geti <[email protected]> wrote: > Provisions of the bill that many legislators are questioning: > > a.. $1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn't earned a profit in four decades. ----------------------------------------
Perfect time to fix a bad experience in Rail Travel. > a.. $2 billion to help subsidize child care. ------------------- Are we failing our poor kids today? Can we institute parental training to make better prepared parents that might actually raise better kids? > a.. $400 million for research into global warming. ------------------------------------- Well maybe they could find a better thermometer. > a.. $2.4 billion for projects to demonstrate how carbon greenhouse gas can > be safely removed from the atmosphere. ---------------------------------------- If this finds a reagent then we win. right? > > a.. $650 million for coupons to help consumers convert their TV sets from > analog to digital, part of the digital TV conversion. ------------------------------------ Well you realize that those waves were already sold off right? > a.. $600 million to buy a new fleet of cars for federal employees and > government departments. -------------------------------- We have to help out Detroit don't we? Oh wait a min. Aren't those cars set to retire in 5,4,3,... > a.. $75 million to fund programs to help people quit smoking. --------------------------------- Probably a good thing. > a.. $21 million to re-sod the National Mall, which suffered heavy use during > the Inauguration. ------------------------------------ Pretty stupid but as an urban center for the world we need to fix it after the party. > a.. $2.25 billion for national parks. This item has sparked calls for an > investigation, because the chief lobbyist of the National Parks Association > is the son of Rep. David R. Obey, D-Wisc. The $2,25 billion is about equal > to the National Park Service's entire annual budget. The Washington Times > reports it is a threefold increase over what was originally proposed for > parks in the stimulus bill. Obey is chairman of the House Appropriations > Committee. --------------------------------- They need a tech tuneup. they are still in the Smokey the Bear days of presentation. Just like hippie chicks. > > > a.. $335 million for treatment and prevention of sexually transmitted > diseases. ----------------------------------- herpes the gift that keeps on giving. > a.. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts. $4.19 billion to > stave off foreclosures via the Neighborhood Stabilization Program. The bill > allows nonprofits to compete with cities and states for $3.44 billion of the > money, which means a substantial amount of it will be captured by ACORN, the > controversial activist group currently under federal investigation for vote > fraud. Another $750 million would be exclusively reserved for nonprofits > such as ACORN - meaning cities and states are barred from receiving that > money. Sen. David Vitter, R-La., charges the money could appear to be a > "payoff" for the partisan political activities community groups in the last > election cycle. --------------------------------------------------- NEA will probably get you more bang for the dollar in giving then you expect. Raw materials for sculpture come to mind. They will also fund parties for openings that all the money goes to local vendors for food, wine, music. Kind of what we need for stimulus right? $$ for everyone. > > a.. $44 million to renovate the headquarters building of the Agriculture > Department. - --------------------------- Probably needs it big time. > > a.. $32 billion for a "smart electricity grid to minimize waste. > a.. $87 billion of Medicaid funds, to aid states. ----------------------------- Way needed to put $ there. > > a.. $53.4 billion for science facilities, high speed Internet, and > miscellaneous energy and environmental programs. --------------------------------------- If they find the better battery for cars it is a win! > > a.. $13 billion to repair and weatherize public housing, help the homeless, > repair foreclosed homes. ----------------------------------------------- Screw the poor. No not really. > > a.. $20 billion for quicker depreciation and write-offs for equipment. --------------------------------------------- No comment there, it is a huge accounting change. > a.. $10.3 billion for tax credits to help families defray the cost of > college tuition. ------------------------------------- If we get re-education for people who lost jobs, is that wrong? > a.. $20 billion over five years for an expanded food stamp program. ------------------------------------------- We have a lot of people who are suddenly not getting a pay check. > Republican leaders say the stimulus package will add 32 new government > programs at a cost of $136 billion. They object that many of the programs, > once established, are likely to continue indefinitely. > > Most media outlets are reporting the cost of the package at $819 billion. As > Newsmax revealed yesterday, however, the Congressional Budget Office > calculates that the interest on the debt generated by the bill's spending > will cost another $347.1 billion, making the total cost approximately $1.17 > trillion. > > Of course, the measure contains hundreds of billions in tax cuts and > infrastructure projects that conservatives will find palatable. But as House > Minority whip Eric Cantor, R-Va., told the media Wednesday, "This was not a > stimulus bill. It was a spending bill." > _______________________________________________ Of course it is a spending bill. What ant hill do you have yourself hiding in? We need to employ lots of people in a variety of types of jobs to keep America working, or do see a different picture to the world? We need to get a comfort level at the home front. The former playbook is in the toilet, we need to find another VC model because they are dried up for the next 6,12,18,24 months. Any ideas for a different set of plays? Or are you just going to complain ab out what is happening without any other options? this is written by someone who wanted to see a line item veto to get rid of pork, now it is the only thing that may keep us afloat. Man that really sucks. -- Stephen Russell Sr. Production Systems Programmer First Horizon Bank Memphis TN 901.246-0159 _______________________________________________ Post Messages to: [email protected] Subscription Maintenance: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profox OT-free version of this list: http://leafe.com/mailman/listinfo/profoxtech Searchable Archive: http://leafe.com/archives/search/profox This message: http://leafe.com/archives/byMID/profox/[email protected] ** All postings, unless explicitly stated otherwise, are the opinions of the author, and do not constitute legal or medical advice. This statement is added to the messages for those lawyers who are too stupid to see the obvious.
