This is TOTALLY off the Subject, but Im SICK! Get Ready American's (Change is on the way!) That's enough money to give a $1,400.00 check to EVERY ONE IN THE WORLD! I wonder how many ML's that is! I just want to wish EVERYONE GOOD LUCK and I hope WE ALL COME THROUGH THIS O.K. BP
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Those who hammer their Guns into plows will plow for those who do not. Thomas Jefferson
I've been firing off e-mails to my two Senators every other day telling them to kill that snake before it bites us all. One voted yea (the Democrat) and one voted nay (the Republican).
At least the Senate's amendment cleaned it up a little (it still stinks though). I sure hope when it goes back to the House that Pelosi and her gang stink it up with more rotten pork. Maybe then those three turncoat Republican senators will vote against it.
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My wife says I'm totally nuts, but I think I'm Semisane.
Things I've Learned: (1) It's not possible to please everyone, but quite easy to piss everyone off. (2) If you love animals as I do, then you're not a vegetarian. (3) There's no need to act stupid, even if you're very good at it. (4) If you eat right and exercise, don't smoke or drink, you're going to die anyway.
Unbelievable isn't it? I think the money if spent, would be better spent in the hands of American citizens in a certain tax bracket. But, I guess thats just me. The powers that be think we should give the money to banks and institutions that assisted in causing these problems and push our generations further and further into debt. If we keep on this track it won't be long and this deck of cards will fall because even the Federal Gov't has limits to how in debt it can go...because tax revenues come from us and we can't keep shelling out for this. I hope all of you weather the storm! Good luck.
What can you get for 838 Billion Dollars these days, 4 Million Temp Jobs!
$25 Million shall be available for tribal alcohol and substance abuse drug reduction as.sistance grants
$150 million for "producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish"
$50 million for habitat restoration and other water needs in the San Francisco Bay Area
$198 million to compensate Filipino World War II veterans
$87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
$1.7 billion for the National Park System
$650 Million to the Forrest Service for hazardous fuels reduction and hazard mitigation activities in areas at high risk of catastrophic wildfire
$545 Million for Indian Health Services
$100 Million for the Lead-Based Paint Hazard Control Grant Program
$850 million for Amtrak
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$300 million for energy-efficient-appliance rebate programs
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for "youths" up to the age of 24
$125 Million for the District of Columbia Water and Sewer Authority
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for "neighborhood stabilization activities"
$650 Million for Digital Converter Box Program, coupons and converter box installation.
$55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
$7.6 billion for "rural community advancement programs"
$150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
$1.368 Billion for grants or loans for energy retrofit and green investments in as.sisted housing
$40 Million to the Bureau of Indian Affairs for Operation of Indian Programs
$1.5 Billion for NASA, Science, Aeronautics, Exploration, and Cross Agency support.
$198 Million for School Lunch Room EQUIPMENT
$ 9 Billion for "Broadband Technology Opportunities Program"
$1.256 Billion for NOAA, Operations, Research, Facilities, Acquisition, Construction and Management
$300 million for Violence against Women Prevention and Prosecution Programs",
$954 Million to carry out the immunization program
$545 Million to carry out chronic disease, health promotion, and genomics programs
$60 Million to carry out environmental health programs
$50 Million to carry out injury prevention and control programs
$40 Million for the National Institute for Occupational Safety and Health to carry out research activities within the National Occupational Research Agenda
$40, Million for the National Center for Health Statistics
$390 Million Dollars for the Uranium Enrichment Decontamination and Decommissioning Fund
$600 Million Dollars for acquiring motor vehicles with higher fuel economy
$400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$200 Million to the Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program
$200 Million for direct loans and grants for distance learning and telemedicine services in rural areas
$6 billion for university building projects
$4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
$200 Million for developing and implementing a nationwide Integrated Wireless network supporting Federal law enforcement
$1.2 Billion for TSA procurement and installation of checked baggage explosives detection systems and checkpoint explosives detection equipment
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$2 billion for renewable-energy research ($400 million for global-warming research)
$2 billion for a "clean coal" power plant in Illinois
$6.2 billion for the Weatherization As.sistance 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
$1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
$1.5 billion for green-technology loan guarantees
$8 billion for innovative-technology loan-guarantee program
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$4.5 billion for electricity grid
$89 billion for Medicaid
$30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
$20 billion for food stamps
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund (for bailing out your local politicians overspending)
$145 billion for "Making Work Pay" tax credits
$83 billion for the earned income credit
I can't vouch for the accuracy of the above breakdown, but if it is just close - we need to SCREAM in unison.
I don't want to ruffle any feathers but why didn't we see the same kind of posts when the last administration did the same thing only worse.
I hate them all equally.
Art
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WOW UC, that really SUCKS! What happened to helping out the U.S. Taxpayers that really need the help and are paying for all this!mabey next time after this bill fails, if there is a next time. And as long as that took you to write, Thank You! BP
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Those who hammer their Guns into plows will plow for those who do not. Thomas Jefferson
All I will say in regards to this post is ... our country is in bad shape and something needs to be done. I am not an economic genus nor do I claim to be. While I think a lot of the above mentioned items could be removed, perhaps there is reasons for them, or perhaps they could be implemented at a later date. I really do not know. And I sure don't know the answer. Still I will say, SOMETHING HASTO BE DONE.
There is some belief that if we ignore the current problems, like all things they would play themselves out. The question is how long would that take and at what cost to the average American or the World economy for that matter. And steps should have been done by our past administrations before this all spiraled out of control. We let the rich get greedy and encouraged them to do so. I think the sour grapes now are, those same greedy companies and people now want the working class to bail them out. Our economy is not only in the toilet but someone has pulled the handle on the tank. If we don't start at least treading water, we will go down the pipe.
Also there are two things I do not like to discuss and that is politics and religion. I have my views, others may have those thatvery well disagree with me. That's fine, that is the way it should be. I have no desire to post my views claiming they are right and others are wrong. Especially on a black powder forum such as this. There are other political blogs out there to go and voice my opinions.
Lets hope that the decisions being made by our elected officals are the correct ones. And that we will come through these economic hard times we all face without too much damage. I encourage all of you that if you disagree with the decisions your representatives make to contact them and make your voice heard. That is the way the American Policical system is supposed to work.
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