And They Call This "Stimulus"...

[Col Hogan]

$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.

• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."

• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $500 million for state and local fire stations.

• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.

• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.

• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.

• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

• $850 million for Amtrak.

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

• $75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.

• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations

[Appaholic]

Good...GOD!...

[grizzaholic]

.......................

[BigApp]

$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

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

• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations

hmmm....gee whiz.........wonder where those ideas came from...Why doesn't Barry just out and say: "Thank you enviro-whackos! Now, here's your payback!"

[BigApp]

• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.

• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

remember when I was scoffed at for mentioning mandatory service?? They even put it up on their "change.gov" website, then immediately took it down (I posted the screen shots here)

Touche'

[ASUMountaineer]

What a fokkin joke, all who vote for this should be jailed for theft. They must be big fans of the Kelo decision and applying it's philosophy to taxation. Public benefit now equals public use.

[AZGrizFan]

Got an email from a PAC (with John McCain as Chair) that's opposing the stimulus plan. Hope that thing goes down in flaming defeat.

[Appaholic]

Got an email from a PAC (with John McCain as Chair) that's opposing the stimulus plan. Hope that thing goes down in flaming defeat.

Why?....figured he would've been rushing up to the Hill with cameras in tow to "save" the stimulus?....oh that's right, campaign is over and the banks have already got their money....

[AZGrizFan]

Got an email from a PAC (with John McCain as Chair) that's opposing the stimulus plan. Hope that thing goes down in flaming defeat.

Why?....figured he would've been rushing up to the Hill with cameras in tow to "save" the stimulus?....oh that's right, campaign is over and the banks have already got their money....

He probably would have opposed the original stimulus package too, but was afraid it'd kill his election hopes.

[catamount man]

Let's just hope the idiots in the Senate derail this. Talk about useless spending by the government? WOW!!!

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

CHANGE?

[dbackjon]

Let's just hope the idiots in the Senate derail this. Talk about useless spending by the government? WOW!!!

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

CHANGE?

Still double dubya's

[catamount man]

Let's just hope the idiots in the Senate derail this. Talk about useless spending by the government? WOW!!!

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

CHANGE?

Still double dubya's

At the end of his term, yes, you're correct. Sorry, Obama is already alienating a lot of his base that supported him. He's got a lot of work to do. I hope THE NATION is successful.

[travelinman67]

Let's just hope the idiots in the Senate derail this. Talk about useless spending by the government? WOW!!!

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

CHANGE?

Still double dubya's

Sayeth UNHTod.

[dbackjon]

Still double dubya's

Sayeth UNHTod.

Miss ya

[travelinman67]

Sayeth UNHTod.

Miss ya

You make it so hard to be away from home...

[Skjellyfetti]

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

Last you heard from where?

Seems pretty steady to me:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallu ... roval.aspx

Fox even has him at 65%:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012 ... aseweb.pdf

[AZGrizFan]

Last I heard, Barry's approval rating is down to 55%. In 2 weeks, 83% to 55%.......

Last you heard from where?

Seems pretty steady to me:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallu ... roval.aspx

Fox even has him at 65%:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012 ... aseweb.pdf

It's 55% in Catamount's house. His wife holds the majority.

[Appaholic]

Last you heard from where?

Seems pretty steady to me:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallu ... roval.aspx

Fox even has him at 65%:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012 ... aseweb.pdf

It's 55% in Catamount's house. His wife holds the majority.

OUCH!

[Wedgebuster]

Last you heard from where?

Seems pretty steady to me:
http://www.gallup.com/poll/113980/Gallu ... roval.aspx

Fox even has him at 65%:
http://www.foxnews.com/projects/pdf/012 ... aseweb.pdf

It's 55% in Catamount's house. His wife holds the majority.

Is that by weight or volume?

[Col Hogan]

Wow, the Senate has slimmed down the stimulus bill to a svelte $827B from that bloated $920B plus package that came out of the house...

Here's some of the stuff removed to win approval from three Republicans and moderate Democrats in the Senate...

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

• $89 million General Services Administration operations

• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

• $200 million Transportation Security Administration

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

[catamount man]

This is all news to me considering I'm NOT married and wedge, you can back off for now. SERIOUSLY.

(starts breathing deeply).........

[clenz]

Wow, the Senate has slimmed down the stimulus bill to a svelte $827B from that bloated $920B plus package that came out of the house...

Here's some of the stuff removed to win approval from three Republicans and moderate Democrats in the Senate...

Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

• $89 million General Services Administration operations

• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

• $200 million Transportation Security Administration

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

What does that leave left in the bill? Us there a link to it?