Tuesday, February 24, 2009

Obuma's Trillion's-Got Your's?



$198 million School Lunch Room EQUIPMENT Uhhhh ?
$9 billion For 'Broadband Technology Opportunities Program'
$650 million Digital Converter Box Program, for coupons and converter box installation. Don't get me started on this one--thats a BILLION dollars. Who says we have the "right" to watch digital TV?
$1.256 billion National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
$300 million Violence Against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs',
$1.5 billion Dollars SCIENCE, AERONAUTICS, EXPLORATION, and CROSS AGENCY SUPPORT. No explanation.
$200 million Dollars for the costs of developing and implementing a nationwide Integrated Wireless network supporting Federal law enforcement
$25 million Dollars shall be available for tribal alcohol and substance abuse drug reduction assistance grants. How is this job creation??
$390 million Dollars for the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund
$125 million Dollars for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority How is this job creation?? Now we have to clean up DC?
$600 million Dollars for acquiring motor vehicles with higher fuel economy
$1.2 billion to the TSA for procurement and installation of checked baggage explosives detection systems and checkpoint explosives detection equipment
$200 million Dollars to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program. We already pay a fuel tax for that.
$650 million to the Forest Service for hazardous fuels reduction and hazard mitigation activities in areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfire
$545 million Dollars for Indian Health Services How is this job creation??
$158 million for the operation of the National Park System
$40 million Dollars to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Operation of Indian Programs
$1.2 billion Dollars for grants to the States for youth activities, including summer employment for youth
$2 billion Dollars for Payments to States for the Child Care and Development Block Grants
$1.368 billion Dollars for grants or loans for energy retrofit and green investments in assisted housing
$100 million Dollars for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program
$79 billion Dollars for the State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
$200 million Dollars for direct loans and grants for distance learning and telemedicine services in rural areas
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$850 million for Amtrak Amtrak has been losing $$ for decades... why throw more $$ at it??
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System How many Park benifits ?
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for "rural community advancement programs" Uh... is this like building roads? Tourist attractions so more people go there?? More rodeos? 4F shows?
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases I don't understand this one at all
$150 million for "producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish" why???
$50 million for habitat restoration and other water needs in the San Francisco Bay Area Who does someone owe in SF??
$198 million to compensate Filipino World War II veterans What does this have to do with job creation???? And what did they do again ?
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research) but we don't have global warming...just walk outside and feel how cold it is...
$2 billion for a "clean coal" power plant in Illinois - Illinois? what a surprise " hmm"
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program
$3.5 billion for energy-efficiency and conservation block grants
$3.4 billion for the State Energy Program
$200 million for state and local electric-transport projects
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs Huh?
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments Let them drive their own cars... ok, if you're police maybe, but wouldn't a police car want to be 8 cylinders full of power? Are any hybrid cars that beefy??
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries " Please "
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects Huh??
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund The states failed.... bailing them out will just encourage them to keep failing...
$89 billion for Medicaid Why? isn't this welfare ? "
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension Why? If you really did save or create all those jobs, we wouldn't need Cobra? And why should we pay 65% of these premiums??
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits same as above
$20 billion for food stamps To whom? The unemployed? So now we're giving them health insurance, more expanded unemployment benefits, and food stamps? What is the incentive to go back to work??
$150 million for the Smithsonian Why? As a thank you for letting the DNC put all those port-a-potties on their lawn and letting people use their toilet facilities during the inauguration?
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters So I guess you could argue that the "renovations, improvements, repairs, moves, new stuff" will create jobs?
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities see above
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters see above
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers see above
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building see above
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters see above
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for "climate-research missions") Let's put a space ship up there to watch the weather change?
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for "climate modeling") whatever
$1 billion for the Census Bureau why?
$145 billion for "Making Work Pay" tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women How is this job creation?? Self-defense class instructors? Mace manufacturers?
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants Oh... someone has to take care of all those children ...you know, the kids of all those new federal government workers...
$6 billion for university building projects More construction jobs?
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships " don't know the guy "
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for "youths" up to the age of 24 Now we have a new definition of youth?
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities" Huh ? ACORN?
$200 million for direct loans and grants for distance learning
$954 million shall be used as an additional amount to carry out the immunization program
$545 million shall be used as an additional amount to carry out chronic disease, health promotion, and genomics programs
$60 million shall be used as an additional amount to carry out environmental health programs
$50 million shall be used as an additional amount to carry out injury prevention and control programs
$40 million shall be used as an additional amount for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to carry out research activities within the National Occupational Research Agenda
$40 million shall be used as an additional amount for the National Center for Health Statistics
$900 Million To HAMAS-FUNDS FOR THE TERROISTS!! I wonder if Bin Laden has signed up for his stimulus!!