Did That Stimulus Work?

I won't judge, the numbers cover it...

How's Your Stimulus?

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You paid for, so look at the results...

Here is the original document from the Bureau Of Labor Stats: http://www.bls.gov/news.release/pdf/empsit.pdf
I was leery of the passage of this bill, which passed shortly after Obama was elected (see the red dots above). I think it's lunacy to say this hasn't worked? Listening John Bo[eh]ner?

Stimulated?

Sorry to sound negative here, but not many people will take any time to read the Stimulus Package..

http://frwebgate.access.gpo.gov/cgi-bin/getdoc.cgi?dbname=111_cong_bills&docid=f:h1enr.pdf

Page 4, $11.5B for Section 502 loans. Um, if we don't have a job, we can't qualify for the loan. This will not be spent. Even if this is spent, it won't create jobs.

Page 7, $300M for food stamps, uh, WTF?? What job does that create?

Page 13, $1B to the Bureau Of The Census, no reason why or what to do with it. It must be Christmas!

Page 14, $650M for the "Digital to Analog converter box" program. So people can get the coverter to put on a TV that is about to die anyway. They will have to buy new TVs soon and the converter will go in the trash. Oh, guess where the converters are made? China...says so right on the box.

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Page 17, $1B to NASA for whatever they like, no direction on what to use it for.

$2.5B to the National Science Foundation with directions on how to spend only $1B of it, the rest could go anywhere. That's not focused.

Pages 18-20, $4.5B for DOD, of which only $400M goes to the health care of our forces (sad). Can't we cut the DOD budget since they got all this money??

I only got through the first 48 pages today (out of 407). I stopped when I had that urge to get my gun out and put it in my mouth.

The 825 Billion Stimulus Passes

If you are interested in who voted for or against it, that is here;
http://clerk.house.gov/evs/2009/roll046.xml

If you have a few weeks to kill you can read the 647 text of the bill here;
http://www.rules.house.gov/111/LegText/111_hr1_text.pdf

I will try to get to some of the highlights on this over the weekend. I am sure it's a fantastic piece of legislation. Considering none of the Pubs voted for it, we could have dropped some of those tax beaks to help pay for it, yes??

It's a great showing of fucking partisanship, great way to start the new Congress, as divided as ever...just because. The US is no fucking better politically than Zimbabwe. Just a bunch of old men who oppose anything the other side wants...just because.