787 billion dollar stimulus bill

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[kenb]

The Dems had to do something ASAP! More time is spent planning a friggin wedding than was spent on that friggin bill! I don't think the President has a clue whats in that bill, let alone the rest of the friggin government! 1100 pages?! Who the hell typed all that pork?! Why do they call it pork anyway?! Isn't it waste, sewage, garbage, crap? There are people in this country that are discussing how to spend $20! The Govt can spend a trill in a couple weeks! I bet Bin Laden is laughing as the U.S. self destructs. OK, Rant over.

They keep pulling this congressional martail law crap where they're required to vote with out even reading the bill.......they did the same thing with the bailout a couple months back......friggin pisses me off!

[ridemslow]

Face it dude... we're SCREWED! Gonna be like that till some of those dam liberal sucks are voted out. ::)

[Kawhead]

The only happy people right now are life's looser who'll never amount to much more than that, liberal politicians, most of the news media, and the thirty or so per cent that voted Hussein into office. We just have to bite the bullet guys, the last republicans screwed around and we have to bear it through this two or so year correction. They played nice guy with the libs and look what it got them. The hateful thing now is it's gonna cost us and generations to come. One thing that I do admire about them when they come into power is F you we won and it's going to be our way now!

[oldbikers]

Thanks for posting that Wolfman now I know at least some knows and will say that we are getting screwed :-[

[glwilson]

Wolf; when you are "robbing-the-bank" you don't have time to count the money - you just grab what you can and run. That is exactly what the DEMS did with this bill... grabbed as much money as they possibly could and ran back to their offices to divide it up.

The next step for them will be to appoint themselves positions of "oversight" (I use that term very loosely) so they can assign the various projects and the money to their political supporters; and other such corrupt connections.

I predict within a few years the headlines will be similar to: "Senator indicted on stimulus project spending fraud"; "Congressman and Contractor indicted on a pay-to-play scam with taxpayer's dollars"; "Cost overruns on infra-structure spending to double before projects are completed".

You get my point. I am just waiting anxiously to see which politician gets caught with their hands in the pot first.

[abbo]

Taxpayers, will be saddled with financing a superfluity of special interest projects and entitlements

It’s Not Obama’s “Stimulus” Bill
By Frank Salvato Friday, February 13, 2009


Now that the behemoth “stimulus” package has been reconciled in conference it appears that we, the taxpayers, will be saddled with financing a superfluity of special interest projects and entitlements. From programs that serve to combat sexually transmitted diseases and facilitate smoking prevention initiatives to the $30 million earmarked – yes, earmarked – for a wetlands restoration project meant to protect the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse, We the People have been bamboozled into financing the biggest raid on the US Treasury in the history of our nation. But before we grab the pitchforks and the torches and start marching down Pennsylvania Avenue to the White House in protest, we should consider the facts surrounding the crafting of this abysmal piece of pork legislation.

The American citizenry has employed the convenient practice of blaming the President of the United States for all things enacted or ignored by government. This practice has been facilitated by the mainstream media for decades, if not since the birth of our nation. It can be argued that we have fallen into this practice primarily because it is easier and less time consuming than keeping tabs on each of the 535 voting members of Congress. But in taking the less engaged and less accurate approach to holding our elected officials accountable we perpetuate the misconception that the Executive Branch is all powerful. In fact, it is the Legislative Branch of our government that is charged – exclusively – with the tasks of finance and legislation.

Article I, Section 1 of the US Constitution reads, in part:

“All legislative Powers herein granted shall be vested in a Congress of the United States, which shall consist of a Senate and House of Representatives.”

With this entry into the Charters of Freedom, the Framers entrusted the sole authority to craft, amend and enact legislation. While the Executive Branch does indeed have the luxury of the bully pulpit, in the end the only roll the President has, with regard to legislation, is to either sign the bill into law or veto the bill. A veto sends it back to the Legislative Branch to either survive through a vote to override the presidential veto or be cast off into oblivion.

Article I, Section 7 reads, in part:

“All Bills for raising Revenue shall originate in the House of Representatives; but the Senate may propose or concur with Amendments as on other Bills.”

And Article I, Section 8 states, in part:

“The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises...”

With this the Framers ensconced the sole authority over the legislation of issues of revenue to the Legislative Branch.

This clarity of constitutional literacy understood, my emphasis on the constitutional actualities should in no way be misconstrued to imply support or defense for President Obama’s efforts in this debacle. His advocacy for this unprecedented raid on the US Treasury – through the efforts of his Chicago Democrat machine enforcer, Chief of Staff Rahm Emanuel – makes him culpable in its enactment, as does his signing it into law. But the true ownership of this appallingly irresponsible piece of legislation rests with House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-CA) and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid (D-NV).

In defense of my consternation for this piece of special interest legislation one need only look honestly at what is included in the bill. Here is a partial yet disturbing list of what can only be seen as special interest projects offered up in HR1:

? $650 million for digital TV coupons

? $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts

? $200 million for the National Mall, including repairs of grass destroyed during the inauguration festivities

? $400 million for “National Treasures”

? $99,600 for doorbells in Laurel, MS

? $500,000 for a dog park in Chula Vista, CA

? $3,450,000 to “rehabilitate” sidewalks in Alexandria, VA

? $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees

? $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities

? $75 million for “smoking cessation activities”

? $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges

? $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings

? $850 million for Amtrak

? $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint

? $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems

And my favorite – and, evidently, Nancy Pelosi’s as well – $30 million for a wetlands restoration project in the San Francisco Bay Area to protect, among other things, the endangered salt marsh harvest mouse. Not coincidentally, House Speaker Nancy Pelosi has championed preserving the mouse’s habitat in the past.

I took this from another site. How are buying doorbells for Laurel ,Ms going to do anything for me, I can't afford to go there and ring one. HA

[glwilson]

+1 Abbo

[glwilson]

Here is a graphic of the bill in an easy to see and understand format.

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/do...lus_021209.pdf

[Yellow Jacket]

I don't see many jobs in there.

[ells]

Originally Posted by glwilson

Here is a graphic of the bill in an easy to see and understand format.

http://s.wsj.net/public/resources/do...lus_021209.pdf

If I added right, there is about $60B missing there, maybe Mayoff is getting a bail out!

[NRiderUSA]

Man we are hosed, Freedom is something our children will vaguely remember hearing about and will tell their children as bedtime stories of when we were once the United States of America not United Socialists of America.

[Cajunrider]

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Just to set the records straight, the official name for this bill is the

Congressional
Rehabilitative
Action
Program


or abbreviated as C.R.A.P. . Describes it very well, I think.