On Jan 29, 6:48*pm, wrote:
Pelosi has produced a 40 year wish list for people who are only
interested in power. Obama ran against earmarks, this is the largest
earmark bill in history... Here is your stimulus

Global Warming

$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects Link

Will create jobs and encourage scientific evaluation.

$400 million for global-warming research Link

Government Upgrades

Too vague. What upgrades?

$2.5 billion for the National Science Foundation Link

$2.0 billion for the National Park Service Link

Will create jobs.

$800 million for AMTRAK Link

Good, we need to improve our infrastructure, and it will create jobs.

$650 million for the U.S. Forest Service Link

Jobs.

$600 million for NASA Link

Jobs.

$276 million to the State Department to upgrade and modernize its
information technology Link

Jobs.

$150 million for maintenance work at the Smithsonian Institution Link

We need to save the greatest collections of history in our country.

$209 million for maintenance work for the Federal Agricultural
Research Service Link

Jobs.

$44 million for repairs and improvements at the Washington, D.C.
headquarters of the Department of Agriculture Link

Jobs

$245 million to upgrade the information technology of the Farm Service
Agency Link

Haven't heard of this one.

The Coast Guard wants more than $572 million for “Acquisition,
Construction, & Improvements” They claim these funds will create 1,235
new jobs. Crunch the numbers and this brings the cost of “creating”
each job to a staggering $460,000+ Link

Don't believe it.

$200 million for Dep. of Defense to acquire alternative energy
vehicles. Link

Good, will help the auto industry, in turn keep people's jobs.

$600 million for new cars for the federal government Link

Same

$200 million to re-sod the National Mall Link

Jobs.

$400 million for a new Social Security Administration computer system
Link

Good, create jobs, and any streamlining of the system is welcome.

$1.9 billion for the Energy Department for “basic research into the
physical sciences Link

Research creates jobs, alternate energy ideas, etc.

Schools

$66B on education, but they specifically exclude private K-12 schools
from getting one dime of it. Link

Good, all for better education. A lot of inner city schools are
crumbling, nasty holes and we can't expect children to come out of
those as responsible citizens.

$17 billion for Pell Grants Link

Educating our future is a grand thing.

$13 billion in IDEA, Part B State grants to help pay for “the excess
costs of providing special education and related services to children
with disabilities. Link

See above. Or I guess we could support them the rest of their lives.

$13 billion in Title I grants “to provide extra academic support to
help raise the achievement of students at risk of educational failure
or to help all students in high-poverty schools meet challenging State
academic standards Link

What I said about inner city schools applies.

$6 billion goes to college and universities Link

Good. Will create jobs.

$3.5 billion for higher education facilities. Link

See above.

$2.1 billion is for Head Start Link

Don't know what that is.

$1 billion for Technology Education Link

See above.

$250-million for an after-school snack program. Link

I don't believe it.

Social Programs

$87 billion is to be spent on Medicaid, a welfare program already
costing roughly $400 billion per year Link

You can tell by the wording that this whole article is biased and
withholding information.

$83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don’t pay
income tax Link

Haven't heard of it.

$36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits Link

Good, anything to get people spending is a good thing

$20 billion for increased food stamps, including lifting restrictions
on how long welfare dependents can receive food stamp benefits. Link

Would you rather people that's lost everything because of greedy
people starve to death?

$6 billion program to “weatherize modest-income homes Link

I know someone who works in a similar program in NY, and it creates a
lot of jobs.

$5 billion is devoted to public housing Link

Devoted how?

$3 billion for health care prevention and wellness programs, such as
childhood immunizations and other state and local public health
programs Link

Good, you do realize that it's cheap insurance to immunize as opposed
to an out and out plague, right?

$2 billion is to be spent on Child Care Development Block Grants,
which provide day care. Link

Good, then more people can go to work, thus energizing the economy.

$1.7 billion is to be spent to help the homeless Link

Help them how?

$1.1 billion for so-called federal comparative effectiveness research
in regard to health-care services Link

Please expand, what is it?

$1 billion goes for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance program, to
help low income families pay their heating bills Link

And that's a bad thing?

$500 million to speed the processing of applications for Social
Security disability claims. Link

How?

$200 million goes for senior nutrition programs, such as Meals on
Wheels Link

Good, we've long neglected the one's who have made this country great.

$200 million for AmeriCorps, to help satisfy “increased demand for
services for vulnerable populations to meet critical needs in
communities across the U.S. Link

What does it mean?

$120 million to finance part-time work for seniors in community
service agencies. Link

How?

$100 million to reduce lead-based paint hazards for children in low
income housing Link

Nothing wrong with that. And it will create jobs.

MISC

New Programs $136 billion of the bill is for unproven ideas—to start
32 new federal programs. Link

Such as?

$79 billion is to go the states to maintain their runaway government
spending, particularly for such spendthrift jurisdictions as
California, New York, New Jersey, and Massachusetts Link

Biased reporting is hardly ever factually honest.

$5.2 billion for ACORN, the left-leaning nonprofit group under federal
investigation for massive voter fraud. Link “Community organizers,”
such as the left-wing lobbying group ACORN, would get their own new
slush fund of up to $750-million. Link

Gee, more biased bull****!

$4.2 billion provided to the Neighborhood Stabilization Fund, which
provides the funds to local governments to purchase and rehab vacant
housing due to foreclosure Link

Good. Provides jobs.

$2 billion for Superfund cleanup Link

See above.

$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth Link

$650 million for digital TV coupons to help Americans upgrade to
digital cable television Link

$335 million for sexually transmitted disease education and prevention
programs at the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention Link

$50 million for the National Endowment of the Arts to help “the arts
community throughout the United States.

$400 million for “habitat restoration projects” of the National
Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration Link

$75 million for smoking cessation Link