
Who is Going to Tell Us When We Have Had Enough of This Fraud & His Lethal Quack Medicine?
From Dick Eastman
Remember when Obama wrote that an op-ed piece in the Washington Post warning that if Congress does not pass
his "stimulus" package, and do so right away,
"Our nation will slip deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse."
I did some Internet research and here is just some of the massive spending proposed in the bill:
-- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
-- $380 million for the Women, Infants & Children welfare program
-- $300 million in grants to combat violence against women
-- $1.2 billion to provide "youth" with summer jobs (picking up bottles along the freeway so they don't stay home and talk politics with the adults)
--$2.4 billion for "neighborhood stabilization" activities
-- $650 million for digital TV coupons (yes ! Big Brother in your living room...now ! )
-- $150 million for the Smithsonian
-- $34 million to renovate the Dept. of Commerce headquarters
-- $500 million for improvements to the National Institute of Health facility
-- $44 million for repairs to the Dept. of Agriculture's headquarters
-- $350 million for agriculture department computers (calculating what and why?)
-- $88 million to move (that's right, move) the Public Health Service
into a new building.
-- $1 billion for the Census Bureau
-- $89 billion for Medicaid
-- $30 billion for COBRA extensions The Consolidated Omnibus Budget Reconciliation Act (COBRA) gives workers and their families who lose their health benefits the right to choose to continue group health benefits provided by their group health plan for limited periods of time under certain circumstances such as voluntary or involuntary job loss, reduction in the hours worked, transition between jobs, death, divorce, and other life events.-- $36 billion for expanded unemployment (subsidy for staying out of work)
-- $20 billion for food stamps (they don't trust us with real money to take care of our families -- we might tighten our belts and start a business)
-- $850 million for Amtrak
-- $87 million for a "polar ice breaking ship"
Oops..whatever happened to Al Gore's Global warming event ? (PR)
-- $1.7 million for the National Park Service (the smallest item on the list)
--- $55 million for the Historic Preservation Fund
-- $7.6 million for the Rural Advancement Program
-- $150 million for "agricultural commodity purchases"
-- $150 million for producers of livestock, farm-raised fish and honey bees
-- $160 million for paid volunteers (what is a "paid volunteer"?) at the Corporation for National and Community Service
Another interesting tidbit: Obama said that one of the reasons Congress must pass the stimulus bill, and must pass it NOW, is to end our dependence on foreign oil. What is astonishing is that he (Obama) made this proclamation about energyindependence less than 24 hours after his new interior secretary canceled the oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land.