Posted on 02/05/2009 7:55:58 AM PST by Laissez-faire capitalist
Various Left-Wingery:
1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts...
5. $6 billion for university building projects...
9. $4.2 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities"
10. $650 million for digital TV coupons, including $90 million to educate "vulnerable population"...
Stimulus For The Government:
14. $150 million for the Smithsonian
15. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters [new furniture and so on]
16. $500 million for improvements projects for National Institutes of Health facilities...
Income Transfers:
28. $20 billion for food stamps...
30. $850 million for Amtrak
31. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
...
(Excerpt) Read more at nationalreview.com ...
Recently put on the front page of NRO’s site.
What say you to all of this pork?
A Frat house is running the college.
# 31 THIRTY ONE
Even worse....ANIMAL House is running the College.
Bingo.
You got it!
Curious about #37. I thought there was no polar ice.
List #37 had a typo. Its an ice-MAKING ship.
Well sorry for MY typo, its 31.
If you’re in the government, a bad economy is a good thing. W really did bring a “new tone” to Washington.
50 ain’t nuthin. I made up a list of obvious pork on the Michigan wishlist the other day. You might notice that Ann Arbor isn’t on the list anywhere. (apparently still making out their list) 3 seperate “community centers” for Dearborn alone totalling better than 50 million dollars. Lots of “rain gardens, hybrid busses, streetscapes, and wind generators”.
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/2177333/posts?page=4#4
What I find funny is all the proud Obama voters at my job keep asking me (Because I’m the only one of the crew keeping up with this), “When will I be getting a check from the stimulous?”
Yes. I laugh in their faces and tell them that they’re not getting squat from it. If anything, the new policies and actions of Obama will result in their possibly getting only a few unemployment checks, then food stamps.
Then, my final statement is, “Enjoy your pie.”
"5. $6 billion for university building projects... "
as long as nobody prays in the resulting building.
< / Anti-Prayer-Liberal>
Strikes me that if we're going to spend 800-odd billion, that we'd want something more to show for it than NEA grants and polar bear exhibits.
For example, doesn't the Smithsonian already get funds? How much more do they need and why?
There’s been a big mistake - I read the list a couple of times and didn’t see my name on it.
bookmark
What a bunch of baloney. The bureaucracy formed to administer this boondoggle is now just feathering its nest and has no intention of going away after the digital conversion
More coupons were issued than were ever needed in the first place. Based on US census info, two-thirds of the households with TV have cable. These households are not affected by the switch to digital. So we're talking roughly 36 million households that would even need a coupon.
42 million coupons have already been mailed out. Each coupon is good for 2 TV converters. The purported problem is that 13 million coupons expired without being redeemed. So instead of doing the logical thing, just honoring the coupons anyway, these braintrusts want to issue new coupons.
But even if we were to buy that boneheaded logic, it still doesn't explain why an additional $650M is needed. Best I can tell, they're pulling a fast one, calculating this as if the money allocated for the expired, unredeemed coupons has been spent and the new coupons now need funding.
Oh yeah, no doubt the money HAS been spent, but not on cable TV converters.
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