Posted on 01/27/2009 11:28:48 AM PST by jmstein7
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Q: If there are things that are wasteful in the stimulus package, what would you see go?
A: I actually brought a list of a few that I uncovered here. ... There’s $1.1 billion on research to compare the effectiveness of medical treatments. It might be a nice program, but I’m not sure if I would consider that stimulus. There’s a $726 million for an after school snack program. Again, it’s wonderful, something I think maybe we should put in our regular budget, but I think this falls outside the stimulus. $400 million for habitat restoration, $200 million for fresh sod for the national mall, $600 mill to prepare, this one worries me, to prepare our country for universal health care.
These are just some of the ones I’ve been able to dig up in the last couple of days. I can tell you, it’s accelerating in terms of what the earmarks may be. At this point I’m still undecided which way I’m going to vote on it, but if it gets out of control, I’m here to try to protect the taxpayer, the best I can.
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This “stimulus” bill is largely a stimulus of the Democrat party and it’s constituent organizations and people.
PING
It is Piracy!
That'd be Dashole-Obama-Hillary! health care -- or better known as DOH!
this cram-u-lots package amazes me.
They should be rewarding private sector actions, not paying off their favored buddies. As their “solution” will not work, it will “prove” to their followers that private sectors need government management.
This is something worth talking about. If I hear anymore about the Freedom of Choice Act (which isn’t even a bill introduced for Congressional consideration this session), I am going to lose my mind.
There is plenty in this stimulus bill to get riled up about, such as this.
Getting riled up about other phantom bills takes away from action on THIS BILL actually in Congress....
“Socialized Medicine” means people dying in line, waiting for tests and treatment.
It means Doctors and Hospitals closing their doors due to price controls.
It means drug companies halting research due to price controls.
It means the government decides who lives and who dies.
Truman's Fair Deal called for "universal healthcare". Here we are 60 years later and for the first time socialized medicine in America is a strong possibility. For some folks, its a foregone conclusion.
It’s as big a scam as GW.
A real stimulus would be not paying FICA for a year.
This is exactly why they are trying to rush this crap through asap.
When has the government, in recent years, ever spent everything for precisely what they said they were allocating the entire spending bill for.
This is an obvious lack of transparency. Another DemoRat LIE!
Of course it is!
Well, well, well.... color me shocked — not!
I think I also heard about $20 Billion for Electronic Health Records programs.
“It’s as big a scam as GW.”
What is GW?
It’s something, and piracy is as good as anything else to call it I suppose.
Whatever it is, it is flagrant.
I agree.
At first I thought this was going to be some kind of joke about the contraceptives.
you might want to add the billions being funneled to ACORN it is headlined as something like community development????????????????
Now giving billions not millions but billions to ACRON doesn’t sound like it’s going to help any economy going and why should ACORN get funded when they are crooks?
Yes silly me nearly forgot it’s pay off time and a big thank you for your false votes and corruption
“$200 million for fresh sod for the national mall”
What happened? All the unwashed Obamites kill the grass?
Minnesota version HF1
A bill for an act
1.2relating to the Minnesota economy; creating a state partnership with federal
1.3efforts to restore the American economy; outlining appropriations and
1.4authorizing bonding for use in supplementing the federal Economic Rescue and
1.5Recovery Act; appropriating money; authorizing bonds.
1.6BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF MINNESOTA:
1.7 Section 1. STATE PARTNERSHIP WITH FEDERAL RECOVERY PROGRAMS.
https://www.revisor.leg.state.mn.us/bin/bldbill.php?bill=H0001.0.html&session=ls86
A bill preparing the state to get their gubmint cheeze...
why would anyone consider voting for this monstrosity? Another trillion in debt and then work begins on the next stimulus bill.
This “stimulus” bill is largely a stimulus of the Democrat party and it’s constituent organizations and people.
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It is NOTHING BUT PORK AND POLITICAL SPENDING for the DemoRATS. It has nothing to do with addressing rebuilding confidence in our economy and stimulate it back to health.
NOTHING!!! It is a standard DemoRAT scam.
a real stimulus would be to give a million $’s to every tax payer who earns under a million a year and pays tax no over seas bank accounts.
Now that stimulus plan would right away help the economy.
Those claiming welfare, free lunches, food stamps etc do not get a penny
Those like Buffet do not get a penny but those in between and seniors who have paid into it get the million
The plan is much cheaper too and only goes to those who have worked for it
Gorebull Warming
didn’t you read Atlas Shrugged??
They are not interested in helping the private sector create more jobs and wealth. They want to divide up whats left between themselves and their buddies.
Its called Looting
“$200 million for fresh sod for the national mall”
What happened? All the unwashed Obamites kill the grass?”
They certainly did and they trampled it down to bare dirt.
They also left tons and tons of garbage.
They could carry stuff in, but couldn’t carry out the containers.
200 million to fix the grass that was destroyed during the inauguration.
They left between 100-130 tons of garbage behind.
I agree. It’s shameful. I wish the U.S. Citizen was more discerning. This, by rights, should anger many people who voted for Obama.
You know, I hadn't thought of that. Great point. Why didn't the enviro's bring that up before the 20th? Not to mention all the waste products (human and otherwise) that were expended in an area already overcrowded and straining environmental resources.
I just emailed both senators, plus Mitch McConnell and my congressman along with John Boehner. I encourage everyone to do the same... and people in Utah — PLEASE start holding your two guys feet to the fire...
Quoting the newspaper in Rochester, NY in my blog, LifeEthics, today:
* House member Louise Slaughter submitted the Prevention First Act of 2009 (H.R. 463/S.21). In the Senate it was introduced by Democratic Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid.
The legislation focuses on reproductive and sexual health issues, and in some cases reverses Bush administration policies. It provides funding for comprehensive sex education programs, and none for abstinence-only sex ed. Other provisions include mandatory access to emergency contraception for rape survivors, and a requirement that hospital staff provide factual, science-based information on EC, including instructions that it doesn't cause abortions.
The bill would also force health insurers to offer equitable coverage for prescription contraceptives.
This must get out to the public!!!
I agree, for all the good it will do.
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A: I actually brought a list of a few that I uncovered here. ... There’s $1.1 billion on research to compare the effectiveness of medical treatments. It might be a nice program, but I’m not sure if I would consider that stimulus. There’s a $726 million for an after school snack program. Again, it’s wonderful, something I think maybe we should put in our regular budget, but I think this falls outside the stimulus. $400 million for habitat restoration, $200 million for fresh sod for the national mall, $600 mill to prepare, this one worries me, to prepare our country for universal health care.”
MORE STIMULUS BALONEY.
This is about making Republicans poorer and Democrats richer.
I agree, and at risk of sounding like a broken record, I urge everyone to register strong opposition to the stimulus bill by calling and emailing/fax/write members of Congress, especially the 41 GOP Senators who can filibuster this bill to a standstill.
THE STIMULUS BILL IS THE WORST SPENDING BILL IN US HISTORY.
Obama is the worst President in my lifetime if he signs this bill. He needs to be stopped.
Republicans need to FILIBUSTER the big-Government boondoggle monstrosity the Democrats and Obama are planning. Any Republican who looks at this is appalled: - billions in wasteful Government spending that has nothing to do with growing the economy but is 100% about growing the Government at the expense of our fiscal security and private economy.
Without a principled conservative opposition to the already excessive liberalism of Obama and the Democrats, the Republicans will have no credibility in 2010. Now is the time to take a stand and filibuster this bad bill.
There are specific demands that must be made:
#1 - filibuster against any spending that occurs after this fiscal year, and insist spending be done later in appropriations for next year; 100% of spending should be focussed SOLELY on this year and out-year spending should be in followup appropriations as conditions warrant. Why tie the USA to trillion dollar debt now for spending that will occur well after the recession is over?
#2 - no spending unless all tax laws are extended until 2013; in short, by raising taxes in 2010, the Democrats are cutting the economy off at the knees; they are killing, not stimulating, the economy; filibuster any bill that does not include delaying the increase in taxes.
#3 - No money for ACORN, for Planned Parenthood, for general pet projects that simply add to Government spending; filibuster any bill that has offensive, wasteful, non-stimulus spending; filibuster any bill that has pork and earmarks.
#4 - Filibuster any bill that is not at least 50% tax rate reductions, ie, real tax cuts; only tax rate reductions and/or direct tax cuts, such as allowing 100% expensing in 2009 of depreciable expenses, would incentivize the private sector.
Obama and the Democrats are perpetrating a hoax on the American people with their bad bill, and I am counting on Senator Cornyn to lead the fight to expose it.
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Well in our system it’s the insurance companies who decide who lives and dies. Or your bank account.
But there’s more than one version of Socialized Medicine. For example, Hong Kong which has been consistently ranked as one of the freest economies in the world runs a huge Socialized Medicine System. What this does is put a natural downward pressure on prices because a private company would have to offer a better service to justify the higher price.
I’ve always received the tests and treatment I needed right away.
You can point to any model you like, when it’s done here it will be the worst possible implementation.
bump for show prep
They are stealing, whatever the descriptor you want to call it.
Larceny by false promise is actually a criminal charge.
Sounds right to me.
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