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The numbers speak for themselves. Rather than "give" 6,000.00 per person to the individuals to use as they see fit, Washington demands their cut: 1,000.00 back (maybe) IF you have less than 90,000.00 income limit, otherwise nothing. And the rest going to the people the Washington political class selects and the democrat's ABCNNBCBS press corpse approves! 2 trillion is roughly 1/10 of the entire US economy. How will they spend all of that in two months?

NEW YORK (CBSNewYork) — Chicken from China has officials on alert, including U.S. Sen. Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) As WCBS 880’s Jim Smith reported Sunday, Schumer said first, the U.S. Department of Agriculture only allowed chickens that had been processed in China to be sold in the U.S. Now, he said the USDA plans to green-light poultry raised and slaughtered in China.

He just now said there was no prok or earmark spending in the $787B stimulus bill.

Sen. Robert Byrd noted this week that the Port of Huntington Tri-State includes hundreds of facilities on almost 200 miles worth of the Ohio, Kanawha and Big Sandy rivers. "We cannot turn a blind eye to the security of these ports," he said. "They are too vital and too vulnerable." Accordingly, Byrd was pleased to announce that sometime soon, the U.S. Coast Guard will have three 25-foot boats equipped with bow-mounted machine guns. The terrorist community must collect these homeland security news items like stray plastique. Americans are bumbling all over the place with this stuff. There will be no...