Does anyone else find this excessive and irresponsible?

Does anyone else find this excessive and irresponsible?Last week, the House passed the then-$ 819 billion stimulus bill — without a single Republican vote. GOP senators vowed to oppose it as well, calling it a colossal waste of money, packed with pork and non-essential spending.

NBC broke down some of the bigger numbers in the bill, for example: $ 275 billion in tax relief,
$ 90 billion for infrastructure,
$ 79 billion for school funding, etc. Sounds good, right?

But in the fine print, there's a lot of proposed spending that may raise a few eyebrows. In an interview with President Barack Obama, CBS' Katie Couric called him on some of the more unusual proposals:

- $ 6.2 billion for home weatherization

- $ 50 million for port modernization and water and wastewater infrastructure needs in Guam

-$ 100 million for children to learn green construction

$ 800 million for Amtrak?
Or the $ 150 million for the Smithsonian Institute?

And there's more: So much more, in fact, that the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has set up a website that allows users to comb through the more than 900-page-long bill.

You decide: Economic stimulus or wasteful spending?

- $ 198 million for U.S. military benefits for Filipinos who fought for the U.S. during WWII

- $ 75 million for "smoking cessation activities"

- $ 87 million for the "design of a new polar icebreaker"

- $ 335 million for HIV/STD screening

- $ 600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees

All projects worthy of money, to be sure, but are they worthy of being part of an economic stimulus plan that's now expected to cost U.S. taxpayers $ 900 billion?


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http://news.yahoo.com/s/ynews/ynews_pl238

It just makes me so mad...What do you think?
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Do YOU understand the difference between necessity and excess?

This bill is 90% pork.
I'm all for regulating government spending under ANY administration...this isn't a "bail out" ...it's a goddamn free for all.

Reality has a Liberal Bias
You're stepping over hundred-dollar-bills to pick up pennies.

Do you understand the difference between a "billion" and a "million".

Do you not want the goverment to save money on gas with American hybrid vehicles?

amazin'g
The Democrats have waited for this opportunity to load a bill with their pet projects and paybacks. It's disgraceful. Show's us just how much they have the nation's best interest in mind. They do not care. It's not their money.

Blue_Bee
"And there's more: So much more, in fact, that the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank, has set up a website that allows users to comb through the more than 900-page-long bill."

Uuuh, you could always "come through the bill" - every bill before congress is available for viewing online at congress.gov

and Heritage Foundation being a "conservative think tank" is more than a stretch. A fanatical right wing smear organization is more like it.

By the way, you think $ 335 million for HIV/STD is wasteful spending? And just wondering, where was all your "outrage" and HF's website combing through the 60% increase in government spending under the Bush Admin?

TheBansheeofBebop
Reality Has a Liberal Bias forgets that it's not the government's money.

But I volunteer to become the Smoking Cessation Czar (or Czarina, in my case). That's something I know how to do!

American'sneedhelpitscold
Obama is suppose to finish breaking us and this should do it. if not they have on in line right behind this one.

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