Freedom Works has put up a post on twenty facts about the stimulus.
You need to know them.
Check out the whole post here. Assuming they won’t mind, I’m going to list all 20 and do it above the fold because they are all worthy of attention:
1. The $825 billion package slated for a House vote later this week will exceed more than $1.1 trillion when adding in the interest ($300 plus billion) between 2009-2019 to pay for it.
2. The Capitol Hill Democrats’ plan includes funding for contraceptives; regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer funded contraception, there is no question that it has NOTHING to do with the economy.
3. The legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN), which has been accused of voter fraud, is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the housing meltdown.
4. Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the House Democrats’ proposal:
- $650 million for digital TV coupons.
- $600 million for new cars for the federal government.
- $6 billion for colleges/universities – many which have billion dollar endowments.
- $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
- $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.
- $200 million for the National Mall, including $21 million for sod.
5. The plan establishes at least 32 new government programs at a cost of over $136 billion. That means more than a third of this plan’s spending provisions are dedicated to creating new government programs.
6. The plan provides spending in at least 150 different federal programs, ranging from Amtrak to the Transportation Security Administration. Is this the “targeted” plan Democratic leaders promised?
7. Even though the legislation contains at least 152 separate spending proposals, the authors of the plan can only say that 34 have any chance at keeping or growing jobs.
8. Just one in seven dollars of an $18.5 billion expenditure on “energy efficiency” and “renewable energy programs” would be spent within the next 18 months.
9. The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.
10. The House Democrats’ bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.
11. The bill provides enough spending – $825 billion – to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.
12. $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the United States $22,000.
13. Although the House Democrats’ proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill – or three percent – is for road and highway spending. A recent study from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion.
14. Much of the funding within the House Democrats’ proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) – a program that already has $16 billion on hand. States also are sitting on some $9 billion in unused highway funds – funds that Congress is prepared to rescind later this year.
15. All board members of the “Accountability and Transparency Board” created by this legislation are appointees of the President; none will be appointed by Congress.
16. A scant 2.7 percent, or $22.3 billion of the overall package, is dedicated to small business tax relief.
17. The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the legislation increases by seven million the number of people who get a check back from the IRS that exceeds what they paid in payroll and income taxes.
18. The “Making Work Pay” tax credit at the center of the plan amounts to $1.37 a day, or about the price of a cup of coffee.
19. Almost one-third of the so-called “tax relief” in the House Democrats’ bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package – not the 40 percent that President Obama had requested.
20. $825 billion is just the beginning – many Capitol Hill Democrats want to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their “stimulus” plan. In fact, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Obey (D-WI), told Roll Call earlier this month, “I would not be surprised to see us go further on some of these programs down the line.”
It's nice to see the Republican leadership
fredforamerica Tuesday, January 27th at 11:47PM EST (link)showing a hint of backbone here. I believe this information is coming from House Republican Leader Boehner’s website. Thanks for posting this Erick.
The audacity of vote ...
kchand Tuesday, January 27th at 11:51PM EST (link)The backbone test is tomorrow in the House.
That vote needs to be broadcast around the country.
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Vista really sucks!
It's going to be a
kchand Tuesday, January 27th at 11:48PM EST (link)VERY LONG four years. Hopefully, the Rebups can make some significant gains in ‘10.
However, the better NOT SUPPORT this - - - - sandwich.
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Vista really sucks!
Stimulus 101...
$peciallist Tuesday, January 27th at 11:54PM EST (link)http://blog.heritage.org/2009/01/27/stimulus-101-the-pelosi-reid-obama-debt-plan/
Obama's Trying to Get Us to Do His Dirty Work
buckeye Wednesday, January 28th at 12:00AM EST (link)He desperately wants a bill far cleaner than the pork feast being produced by House Dems, something full of infrastructure projects and “green jobs”. He thinks the right spending bill can hit his Keynesian 1.5 multiplier. Even more so, he also wants to be transformational like Reagan and the bipartisan tax bill that reshaped the economy for over two decades. So he’s playing us to pull the rug up on the pork so he can have it stripped out in the name of bipartisanship.
The problem isn’t the wrong mix of trillion dollar spending to get to a 1.5 multiplier. The problem is the 1.5 multiplier all together. We can’t spend our way to prosperity. The GOP needs to put a pro growth alternative on the table and simply state, “with all do respect, this is what we believe in. If you want to spend your way to prosperity then work it out with Nancy and Harry, you guys won”. We stand by our principals and Obama has to do his own dirty work with Nancy and Harry.
If we haggle this flawed premise bill that’s doomed to failure down then our fingerprints will be on it and you can take it to the bank two years from now (if you can still find one in business) we’ll take the blame for preventing it from being big enough. The table’s being set on us on that one with all these pieces on how “economists say it needs to be much larger”. The GOP needs to run away, very far away from this thing. Don’t get in the way but stay the h*)ll away!
“Honor is self-esteem made visible in action.” - Ayn Rand, West Point, 1974
Here's an alternative
uttles Wednesday, January 28th at 12:11AM EST (link)I wish Republicans would propose this:
1. Repeal the 16th Amendment
2. Remove all forms of federal taxation that weren’t wiped out in step one, including estate tax, social security tax, payroll tax, corporate income tax, etc
3. Employ a national sales tax of 20% on sales of finished goods and services (or adopt the Fair Tax.)
4. Repeal the Community Reinvestment Act
5. Dissolve Fanny Mae and Freddie Mac
6. Stop all bailouts
~~~ http://www.itsmyblog.com
Sounds good to me - I vote for...
Elizabeth Christian Wednesday, January 28th at 12:40AM EST (link)getting real accountants, let them sort through the mess of a budget - cut out ALL the crap (not just in the stimulus but ALL the crap) and ONLY spend money that is NECESSARY for our Federal government to protect us (National Security) and pay the idiots in D.C. (cut their pay WAY down) and cut out all their goodies + all of what you said above ; )
I guess a girl can dream can’t she??? ; )
Any society that would give up a little liberty to gain a little security will deserve neither and lose both.
~Benjamin Franklin
States not using their federal highway dollars should send them to Georgia
Finrod Wednesday, January 28th at 12:58AM EST (link)I-14 from Augusta to Columbus and points west was approved back in 2005, but as far as I know it’s never gotten any funding. Not only will it help central Georgia but along with a proposed extension of I-85 in Alabama from Montgomery to near the MS state line and I-20/59 it would provide an alternate route through the Southeast that bypasses Atlanta.
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Finrod’s First Law of Bandwidth:
A picture may be worth a thousand words, but it takes the bandwidth of ten thousand.
Let's try this again... This stimulus package has the downpayment for Universal Healthcare.
Kenny Solomon Wednesday, January 28th at 1:06AM EST (link)This is in The Economic Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009:
“$600 million to address shortages and prepare our country for universal healthcare by training primary healthcare providers including doctors, dentists, and nurses as well as helping pay medical school expenses for students who agree to practice in underserved communities through the National Health Service Corps.”
There’s those two words again…. underserved communities.
And what the h*** is The National Health Service Corps and is it a division of The National Civilian Defense Corps ?
My opinion: There’s currently $824.4 Billion partly being used to screen $600 Million from view unless you really look for it. It’s in H.R. 1 and the attending documents/amendments.
Here’s an easier way to see it from The National Council Of State Legislators…………
http://www.ncsl.org/statefed/health/AmRRact09.htm
Scroll down towards the bottom to the header “Training Primary Care Providers”.
As a bonus, when H.R.676 kicks in with it’s identical twin in the Senate….. and it will soon enough…. we’re going to look back on $825 Billion as pocket change.
What’s H.R. 676 you ask? That’s easy………….. “To provide for comprehensive health insurance coverage for all United States residents, improved health care delivery, and for other purposes.”
H.R. 676 was introduced to The House on 1/26/09 by John Conyers and 30 co-sponsors……………….. Baldwin, Tammy [WI-2] - Berman, Howard L. [CA-28] - Clarke, Yvette D. [NY-11] - Clay, Wm. Lacy [MO-1] - Cohen, Steve [TN-9] - Davis, Danny K. [IL-7] - Delahunt, William D. [MA-10] - Doyle, Michael F. [PA-14] - Edwards, Donna F. [MD-4] - Ellison, Keith [MN-5] - Engel, Eliot L. [NY-17] - Farr, Sam [CA-17] - Grijalva, Raul M. [AZ-7] - Gutierrez, Luis V. [IL-4] - Hinchey, Maurice D. [NY-22] - Jackson-Lee, Sheila [TX-18] - Kaptur, Marcy [OH-9] - Kilpatrick, Carolyn C. [MI-13] - Kucinich, Dennis J. [OH-10] - Lee, Barbara [CA-9] - Massa, Eric J. J. [NY-29] - McDermott, Jim [WA-7] - Meeks, Gregory W. [NY-6] - Nadler, Jerrold [NY-8] - Napolitano, Grace F. [CA-38] - Olver, John W. [MA-1] - Pingree, Chellie [ME-1] - Tonko, Paul D. [NY-21] - Watson, Diane E. [CA-33] - Woolsey, Lynn C. [CA-6] - 1/26/2009
I think I’ll go to bed now.
Cheers !
Of course you can have my guns……. Bullets first.
I didn’t say rounds, shells or magazines……
I said bullets first.
National Civilian Defense Corps
CarlSchurz Wednesday, January 28th at 1:15AM EST (link)For some reason a Socialist/Liberal President forming a Defense Corps has me worried.
NKVD?
SS?
SA?
Or am I just practicing Hyperbole?
War is an ugly thing, but not the ugliest of things: the decayed and degraded state of moral and patriotic feeling which thinks that nothing is worth a war, is much worse. A man who has nothing which he is willing to fight for, nothing which he cares more about than he does about his personal safety, is a miserable creature who has no chance of being free, unless made and kept so by the exertions of better men than himself.