10 Reasons To Oppose Stimulus Package

[Eagle1855]

What "bit"?

[eulesseagle]

300 million for these in the package

http://hotair.com/archives/2009/02/11/is-t...administration/

[untbowler]

Is it not completely sad that these dimwits in power are told to cut spending and what do they cut? The tax breaks which are the only stimulants in this bacon fest. God forbid Pelosi cut $30 million for some rodent.

Also the revocation of the 1996 Welfare Reform is not going to be pretty.

[GBarksdale]

Rep. Jack Kingston, R-Ga., complained this morning on the House floor that lawmakers were being asked to vote, sight unseen, on "the largest single bill in the history of Congress." Some Democratic lawmakers fired back that Republicans didn't need to see the bill anyway, since none of them voted for the stimulus when it moved through the House the first time and would probably stand in opposition.

A list of just some of the obscene spending in the bill:

Billions of dollars in spending exclusively devoted to benefit federal employees.

$5.5 billion for making federal buildings "green" (including $448 million for the Department of Homeland Security's headquarters)

$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters

$200 million for workplace safety in Department of Agriculture facilities

$75 million for the Smithsonian Institution

$300 million more for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees (see below)

$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities

$500 million for wildland fire management

$110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service

$522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs

$412 million for Centers for Disease Control headquarters

$500 million earmark for National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland

$100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings

$300 million for constructing Federal Bureau of Investigation office buildings

$800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities

$307 million for constructing National Institute for Standards and Technology office buildings

$1 billion for administrative costs and construction of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration office buildings

That spending was added to an earlier version of the bill, which also benefited federal employees by splurging on things such as the following:

$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees

$125 million for the Washington, D.C. sewer system

$75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI

$6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings

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

$5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Veterans Administration's “National Cemetery Administration”

$60 million for Arlington National Cemetery

$75 million to construct a new “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

$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars

$650 million for the digital TV (DTV) transition coupon program

$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth

$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries

$750 million earmark for the National Computer Center

$10 million to fight Mexican gun-runners

$850 million for Amtrak (on top of its regular subsidy)

$100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

$275 million for flood prevention

$65 million for watershed rehabilitation

$650 million for abandoned mine sites

$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for "science" at NASA)

$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program

$10 million for urban canals

$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though the original section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)

$500 million for state and local fire stations

[hickoryhouse]

Is it not completely sad that these dimwits in power are told to cut spending and what do they cut? The tax breaks which are the only stimulants in this bacon fest. God forbid Pelosi cut $30 million for some rodent.

Also the revocation of the 1996 Welfare Reform is not going to be pretty.

Im sorry, what did i miss? They took out what? When did that happen?