I've read posts, online articles that only give partial facts and have yet to see something comprehensive. Does anybody have a link to a complete bill so I can actually read the whole thing instead of just reading more cheerleading or trash talk? I'm not impressed at what I've read so far but would like to learn more about it.
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I've read posts, online articles that only give partial facts and have yet to see something comprehensive. Does anybody have a link to a complete bill so I can actually read the whole thing instead of just reading more cheerleading or trash talk? I'm not impressed at what I've read so far but would like to learn more about it.
Its almost 1,100 pages long, Congress didn't even read it...[:@]
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I've read posts, online articles that only give partial facts and have yet to see something comprehensive. Does anybody have a link to a complete bill so I can actually read the whole thing instead of just reading more cheerleading or trash talk? I'm not impressed at what I've read so far but would like to learn more about it.
I'm up to 14 pages in a "quick" summary so far. It's amazing that anybody honestly views this as a stimulus rather than what it is--a pork laden spending bill. Here's a page and a half of the summary. As you can see, this is not likely to create jobs or really stimulate the country very much.[:@]
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Key Investments
This plan targets investments to key areas that will create and preserve good jobs at the same time as it is strengthening the ability of this economy to become more efficient and produce more opportunities for employment. Clean, Efficient, American Energy: To put people back to work today and reduce our dependence on foreign oil tomorrow, we will strengthen efforts directed at doubling renewable energy production and renovate public buildings to make them more energy efficient.
"¢ Over $30 billion to transform the nation"™s energy transmission, distribution, and production systems by allowing for a smarter and better grid and focusing investment in renewable technology.
"¢ $5 billion to weatherize modest-income homes.
Transform our Economy with Science and Technology: We need to put scientists to work looking for the next great discovery, creating jobs in cutting-edge-technologies, and making smart investments that will help businesses in every community succeed in a global economy. For every dollar invested in broadband the economy sees a ten-fold return on that investment.
"¢ $15 billion for science facilities, research, and instrumentation.
"¢ $7.2 billion to expand broadband internet access so businesses in rural and other underserved areas can link up to the global economy.
Modernize Roads, Bridges, Transit and Waterways: To build a 21st century economy, we must engage contractors across the nation to create jobs rebuilding our crumbling roads, and bridges, modernize public buildings, and put people to work cleaning our air, water and land.
"¢ $27.5 billion for highway construction;
"¢ $16.5 billion to modernize federal and other public infrastructure with investments that lead to long term energy cost savings;
"¢ $18.8 billion for clean water, flood control, and environmental restoration investments;
"¢ $17.7 billion for transit and rail to reduce traffic congestion and gas consumption.
[/align] Education for the 21st Century: To enable more children to learn in 21st century classrooms, labs, and libraries to help our kids compete with any worker in the world, this package provides:
"¢ $26 billion to local school districts through Title I ($13 billion), IDEA ($12.2 billion), and the Education Technology program ($650 million).
"¢ $53.6 billion in state fiscal relief to prevent cutbacks to key services, including $39.5 billion to local school districts and public colleges and universities distributed through existing state and federal formulas, $5 billion to states as bonus grants as a reward for meeting key performance measures, and $8.8 billion to states for other high priority needs such as public safety and other critical services, which may include K-12 and higher education modernization.
"¢ $15.6 billion to increase the Pell grant by $500.
Lower Healthcare Costs: To save not only jobs, but money and lives, we will update and computerize our healthcare system to cut red tape, prevent medical mistakes, and help reduce healthcare costs by billions of dollars each year.
"¢ $19 billion for health information technology to prevent medical mistakes, provide better care to patients and introduce cost-saving efficiencies.
"¢ $2 billion to provide for preventative care and to evaluate the most effective healthcare treatments.
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unbelievable - I was wondering how Obama was going to "pay back" all those who elevated his experiencedless ass into the White House and this answers a lot ....... all I see here is 800 billion in pet Govt projects that will be busy work for 1-2 years for a couple of million people ...... and then it'll dry up, the govt will have spiffy new everything, a few people Obama owes will be wealthy for it (think Haliburton) and the problems that started this crisis will remain + 800 billion on top of it
Obama flat out lied - this is ALL a pork/pet project spending bill and not even RainmakerIII can deny that
$8 billiondollars for high-speed rail lines, including a proposed line between Las Vegas and Los Angeles. This little bit of second story work wasn't even in the House version of the bill.
It started in the Senate as a $2 billion project, and came out of the conference committee costing a whopping $8 billion. Gee, now who would that benefit? Oh yeah, the Senate majority leader is from Nevada.
Filipino veterans, most of whom don't live in the U.S., will get $200 million in compensation for World War II injuries. And: $2 billion in grants and loans for battery companies, $100 million for small shipyards and a rollback of the alternative minimum tax at a cost of some $70 billion.
The AMT provision is much-needed legislation, but it doesn't belong in the stimulus bill. It forced other things out so Congress could keep to its self-imposed $800 billion cap.
And when it comes to the tax cuts contained in the stimulus bill, experts have determined they will amount to about $13 per week after taxes for the average American. I'm not sure how much stimulation $13 a week buys. It depends on the neighborhood.
What is really in the stimulus package??
