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Economic recovery package before Congress"would provide massive fiscal stimulus."
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<blockquote data-quote="Sammie" data-source="post: 476738" data-attributes="member: 8657"><p>Let's see. If this is <strong><em>our money</em></strong> we're talking about, why weren't </p><p>we allowed to vote on how it was spent? It's being handed out like a deck of cards. Would we have agreed hands down on - </p><p> </p><p>$4 billion to fight crime in small communities like Frog Suck, Wyoming and Lizard Lick, North Carolina.</p><p></p><p>$450 million to NASA for “climate-research missions”. Is Al Gore somewhere out in space studying global warming? </p><p></p><p>$50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts. Yes. We are totally furious that we might miss that next big abstract film festival.</p><p> </p><p>$350 million for new Agriculture Department computers.</p><p> </p><p>$87 million for a U.S. Coast Guard polar icebreaking ship (Earth to Al Gore. We need you down here!!!)</p><p> </p><p>$150 million for Smithsonian renovations.</p><p></p><p>$380 million for a rainy-day nutrition fund. </p><p> </p><p>$600 million to buy the feds new hybrid cars</p><p> </p><p>$500 million to spruce up the National Institutes of Health offices.</p><p></p><p>$448 million for a new Homeland Security Department building.</p><p> </p><p>$88 million to move the Public Health Service into new digs.</p><p> </p><p>(I'll take a new $5 million dollar home.. and a hybrid, please)</p><p></p><p>$79 billion to the states. Dummy me. Here I thought we had state taxes...</p><p> </p><p>$1.1 billion to <em>research</em> health care.</p><p> </p><p>$245 million to upgrade IT at the Farm Service Agency (???) </p><p> </p><p>$500 million to <em>speed up</em> processing applications for S.S. disability claims. </p><p> </p><p>$6 billion to college and universities, who already receive hundreds of billions a year. Yet the only decent financial aid my kid found, who does well in school, was with the military.</p><p> </p><p>Now. Not that these issues don't need to be addressed, but this money will not make jobs appear. It will create more dependency on the government -</p><p>$20 billion for food stamps</p><p>$1.7 billion for the homeless</p><p>$ 5 billion for public housing</p><p>$87 billion for Medicaid, which already costs a $400 billion year</p><p> </p><p><img src="/community/styles/default/xenforo/smilies/emoticons/why.gif" class="smilie" loading="lazy" alt=":why:" title="Why :why:" data-shortname=":why:" /></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Sammie, post: 476738, member: 8657"] Let's see. If this is [B][I]our money[/I][/B] we're talking about, why weren't we allowed to vote on how it was spent? It's being handed out like a deck of cards. Would we have agreed hands down on - $4 billion to fight crime in small communities like Frog Suck, Wyoming and Lizard Lick, North Carolina. $450 million to NASA for “climate-research missions”. Is Al Gore somewhere out in space studying global warming? $50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts. Yes. We are totally furious that we might miss that next big abstract film festival. $350 million for new Agriculture Department computers. $87 million for a U.S. Coast Guard polar icebreaking ship (Earth to Al Gore. We need you down here!!!) $150 million for Smithsonian renovations. $380 million for a rainy-day nutrition fund. $600 million to buy the feds new hybrid cars $500 million to spruce up the National Institutes of Health offices. $448 million for a new Homeland Security Department building. $88 million to move the Public Health Service into new digs. (I'll take a new $5 million dollar home.. and a hybrid, please) $79 billion to the states. Dummy me. Here I thought we had state taxes... $1.1 billion to [I]research[/I] health care. $245 million to upgrade IT at the Farm Service Agency (???) $500 million to [I]speed up[/I] processing applications for S.S. disability claims. $6 billion to college and universities, who already receive hundreds of billions a year. Yet the only decent financial aid my kid found, who does well in school, was with the military. Now. Not that these issues don't need to be addressed, but this money will not make jobs appear. It will create more dependency on the government - $20 billion for food stamps $1.7 billion for the homeless $ 5 billion for public housing $87 billion for Medicaid, which already costs a $400 billion year :why: [/QUOTE]
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