Is there anything in this stimulus package that will create long lasting (non-Government) jobs?

Is there anything in this stimulus package that will create long lasting (non-Government) jobs?600 billion+ SO FAR of the "stimulus" package isWASTE
50m National Endowment for the Arts
60m Mob museum in Vegas
850mWildfire prevention in California
200m "study" electric cars for use in government
650m additional $ $ $ for DTV
400m NOAA to study habitat restoration
44m Repair to AG HQ in DC
276m State Department computer upgrades
600m to NASA for "global warming" research
600m "to help doctors, nurses and dentists" "prepare" for universal health care
209m maintenance upgrades to USDA research building
400m "upkeep upgrades" of "national treasures" like National Mall and
Smithsonian
…but that's chump change compared to this:
1 bn to preserve 500 at risk salmon in CA
275bn to "refundable" tax credits (welfare checks)
30bn for "roads and bridges" (that's about 5% of the "stimulus" being spent on
real "infrastructure")
100bn to expand Medicaid
150bn to explore "alternative" energy
3.1bn for parks and fisheries improvements
20bn "nutritional assistance for middle income" Americans –this is an expansion
of food stamps to 400% of the poverty line!!!
1.5bn to build community health centers
1.9bn to the DOE to do …sit down…"basic research on physical sciences"!!!!
2.7bn for "rural water disposal" (this is to research how to get rural homes off
septic and on to sewer…really, it is)
2.5bn for "upgrades" and energy efficiency for government run housing
6.2bn to "weatherize" low income homes
2.4bn for "carbon capture technology"
350 m for std prevention
75m smoking cessation
870m bird flu
572m Coast Guard for job creation (translates to 460k per job created)
25m for ATV trail maintenance
1.5bn for "carbon capture contest"

g8grl77
Your question assumes that the gov't cares about creating long lasting, non-government jobs. Isn't the role of the gov't to make itself bigger and the people more dependent upon it?

nononsense
In a word, no.

ahandle101
No one really knows, and that's why people elect lawyers as leaders. They like to have over 600 pages of legalese for a bill rather than 1 page of plain english. Vote for real change in 2012. Write in ahandle101.

J.B. K
don't see how any of this baloney can "make" 4 million jobs,
its nothing but payback to the unions and rewarding the states for their bad decisions on spending

whimsy
Yes, especially the alternative energy sectors, which will herald the new age of industry is the US

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