A quick list of what is in the Stimulus Package

Now remember this is a bill to free up Credit and fix the Fannie Mea/ Freddie Mac Debacle, right? A problem the government itself created by forcing banks to make bad loans to people who could not afford the loan. So to Stimulate the economy and help fix their problem and fix the credit/housing crunch and create jobs this it the best these brilliant ones can come up with

http://www.congress.org/congressorg/issues/bills/?bill=12473841
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• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

$125 million for the Washington sewer system.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."

• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $500 million for state and local fire stations.

• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.

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

• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.

• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery

Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a "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.

Yep No Pork here - (and that is not even all) all good stuff. Thanks for the change and thanks for not playing Politics you have all made me proud

http://blog.heritage.org/2009/02/09/compromise-101-meet-the-new-stimulus-same-as-the-old-stimulus/

"Survival of the fittest" not the richest

The Bunker:

Who are we? Are we Americans? Are we not the greatest? Can we not do anything? Then what is this lie that if these banks and/or business's fail our nation will fail?

If one fails then another rises up!
To quote Darwin :) ..... "Survival of the fittest" not the richest and yet it seems we are all falling into this trap that only the rich are not allowed to fail. I know the likes of AIG has its hands in everything but if it is pensions we are worried about then use the "stimulus" to payoff those pensions and then let AIG fail :D

If they fail then someone else can and will just come along and start again. The next guy in line who thought I will never get a shot all of a sudden gets a shot.

We only fail as a nation when we, the masses start believing the lie, and start believing we can't unless government does!!! That is not Biblical and it is not what America was built upon.

So be a free thinker, Stand up, Rise up and Speak out for what you believe in but get ready to Hunker down as the daggers start flying your way as you voice yourself against the machine.

Write your congress men! Write your representative and talk to your neighbors In Love, in all humility and with only the truth. You can do it, I believe in you.


http://writerep.house.gov/writerep/welcome.shtml

other links
citizenlink@family.org

www.whitehouse.gov

www.townhall.com

Bushonomics on steroids, Dig your way out of a hole

Before President Bush took office

· The federal government took in $2 trillion in revenue in 2000. In 2009, the federal government is expected to take in $2.4 trillion.
· After eight years under President Bush, the federal government is taking in $400 billion more a year in revenue.
· So why did Congressional Budget Office project a $1.4 trillion deficit for the 2009 budget? Massive spending increases.
· As McClatchy reports "George W. Bush, despite all his recent bravado about being an apostle of small government and budget-slashing, is the biggest spending president since Lyndon B. Johnson.
In fact, he's arguably an even bigger spender than LBJ." McClatchy goes on to detail Bush's spending binge including an 18% increase in education spending, a doubling of agriculture spending, the 2003 Medicare expansion which was the "biggest single expansion in the programs history", and the $295 billion 2005 infrastructure bill.

1. So to recap, in 2000 the federal government spent just $1.8 trillion.
2. Now the CBO estimates that the feds will spend almost double that, $3.5 trillion, in 2009 (and that does not include Obama's Trillion Dollar Debt Plan)
3. Combining the increased $400 billion in revenue with the $1.7 trillion increase in spending, we see that the mountains of debt Obama is whining about inheriting all came from massive increases in federal spending.

It was borrowing and spending that got us into this mess.

When you find yourself in a hole shouldn’t you simple stop digging?

taken from www.Heritage.com

Are we Sheep or men? Do we follow the Obamanus Spendulus pass the pork package which is just Bushonomics on steroids or will we actually demand change?

Why wont the Democrats acknowledge Rush Limbaugh and yet will recognize Hamas and their right to exist? Working out a thought

Reason with me, Working out this thought

Obama has said he is willing to meet with Iran Dictator without precondition etc… and yet wont have an interview with Rush or any other true conservative and ok not just Obama, that is unfair but 95% of democrats. None of them are willing to acknowledge or take on what conservatives believe or look them in the face and discuss and negotiate and yet they will with Hamas.

Does that make sense? What does this tell us about the nature of the left?

Let me see if I can convey what is in this brilliant little head of mine or should I make this several questions as not to overload. So please any ideas, concepts, just trying to work this thought out

Anger begets anger and thus a vicious circle right?

Israel and Hamas for example – How does that vicious cycle stop? Some say one side has to grow up and extend a hand in friendship etc…, right? But Hasn’t Israel done that repeatedly… and so then doesn’t it then come down to it takes tow, like a marriage I guess. If you reach your hand out to a rabid dog In peace and love or a rabid raccoon what ever where does that get you?

Ok bare with me still so now can we take that to the next step or even the step before (an ounce of prevention is worth a pound of cure right) in the USA Israel is like the Republicans And Hamas like the Democrats
Which is evident when you see what side each usually lands and also taking into consideration the irrationality of hate and name calling etc from the left (in general – as there is no such thing as an absolute)

So with that said and Knowing how Bush (watch the rabid dogs bark and start attacking, they wont be able to help it – foaming at the mouth) reached across the isle and worked hard to bring a new tone to the White house and how well he was received as he bent over backwards and took every liberty to try and work with them, doesn’t that more show the vicious cycle and that trying to reason with emotions and irrationality doesn’t work. The only way to win is to over power and just do what has to be done no questions asked and no looking back, Stand up and speak out?

Treasury Secretary-nominee Speak up America

Speak up America

So now we are not only trying to appoint people we already know are shady (what kind of vetting process is really going on) but will he be confirmed. Sure no one is perfect and sure in the past people get confirmed and then a couple years down the road have to step down cause something comes up but here we have people we know are shady being put up as possible candidates. More over or on the flip side why confirm someone (lets forget about the appointment itself) as TREASURY SECRETARY that is either so ignorant they would make a common mistake, and not just once but 4 times over, or is plain shady.

“The U.S. Senate Finance Committee said on Tuesday that Treasury Secretary-nominee Timothy Geithner had recently paid back taxes and interest of $31,536 due in large part to a failure to pay self-employment taxes while he was working at the International Monetary Fund.”
Obama's transition team said it was a "common" mistake for IMF employees to miss some tax payments because the IMF, unlike most U.S. employers, does not automatically pay or deduct self-employment taxes on behalf of employees.
America what is going on? I have never in my life seen or read anything like what is happening in this day. America needs to really wake up and say lets not change for the worse but for the better. I thought hope was to hope for a better tomorrow not hope things just change period anything is better than what was?
Following are details of Geithner's tax errors:
TAX YEAR TOTAL TAX AND INTEREST
2001 $ 3,320
2002 $22,650
2003 $14,430
2004 $ 2,302
TOTAL $42,702
Yeah let’s welcome in the new Treasury Secretary of the USA. NOT!!!

Everyone keeps asking me how do I feel about Obama’s win?

I keep wanting to push them away and be like dang who cares but instead I began to think on it and for now…….
I don't know how I feel it is such a mix of emotions. I am still taking it all in and filtering through my emotions to find that balance of logic and emotions. I felt overwhelming Sadness when I woke up, and sadness is not something I am used to feeling. I felt bad for my country and who we have become as a nation. But as I saw the faces of those I passed on the streets and bus stops I felt some hope. Hope for them, they had smiles and I see them every day and usually they are not smiling (unless I wave or stop and say hi with a smile) and I thought OK See it will be ok - Maybe this was for them, it is not about me but giving to them that have bought into the lie that they can't or that the America Dream is not for them and now they can say yes it is. I can. Maybe that is what I was missing through this whole thing. and I can pray I have been wrong, I beg to be wrong that I have been the ignorant one as they said that my blindness was my pride. That not everyone is like me, not everyone knows they can, and that Obama no matter if he runs us into a Socialist nation or not has infused a people with a new thought, I am my own destiny and they will be able to hold on to that and step into it with boldness. Never letting it go and never reverting back to the crutch they have held onto for the last 30 years. So the Obama win is bitter sweet but no matter God is on the throne and knows what is best for all, not dems or republicans or conservatives or liberals but all - God said I am no respecter of persons, and concerned only with the eternal soul so I will hold to that. I feel like maybe the words in His books were just words. I feel nervous but hopeful because in the end We are one nation united under God and Love overcomes fear. So if the hearts of the people is Love what is there to be afraid of. But I am afraid also that Socialism will gain a strong foot hold in our nation and destroy what we have built over the last 200 years. as though resistance is futile and we too will be assimilated. But that brings me to gratitude and makes me feel passion. To remember who I am as a conservative and that nothing can change anything except Love. So I feel today the same as I felt yesterday only hopefully today I feel more for my fellow man than I did yesterday. Father I am Clay in your hands.

I welcome the title ignorant and stupid.
May Obama be a GREAT PRESIDENT and prove me wrong.