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Friday, February 06, 2009

Guess where the cuts in the stimulus are coming from?
Posted by Jill | 8:34 PM
Hint: It's not things that Republicans like:

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Total Reductions: $80 billion

Eliminations:

Head Start, Education for the Disadvantaged, School improvement, Child Nutrition, Firefighters, Transportation Security Administration, Coast Guard, Prisons, COPS Hiring, Violence Against Women, NASA, NSF, Western Area Power Administration, CDC, Food Stamps

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Reductions:

Public Transit $3.4 billion, School Construction $60 billion

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Increases:

Defense operations and procurement, STAG Grants, Brownfields, Additional transportation funding

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Paul the Spud says it all.

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Blogger jurassicpork said...
So Collins got her 13 billion dollar fucking earmark, huh? All those cuts and eliminations for two Republican votes.

And for most of them, it still won't be enough.

What truly kills me is before this version was even ratified, before we'd even agreed to these cuts, Reid said earlier today that he was sure we'd already have the 60 votes necessary to ram the bill through. So not only was education and so forth sold down the river for two GOP votes, it wasn't even necessary. $157 billion in vital finding got slashed for insurance.

God do I hate the GOP but I'm beginning to hate the Dems even more. If the GOP shrank down to one congressman, one senator and Rush Limbaugh they'd still kowtow to those asswipes.
2/6/09, 9:00 PM  
Blogger btchakir said...
Republicans don't know how to stimulate the economy.

I've been watching these debates in the Senate for three days and I'm very disappointed by the way the Stimulus Bill is turning out. As it stands now they have put 42% of the Bill as TAX CUTS.... and tax cuts don't stimulate a thing!

Because of the 60 vote minimum needed to pass this thing in the Senate, Democrats have let Republicans re-insert the very things that caused the economy to dive into the pits over the last eight years... TAX CUTS!

This is a STIMULUS BILL! That means we have to SPEND MONEY that will go into the economy and be re-spent two or three times. It has to be money spent to make people BUY THINGS!

If we give $100.00 to a poor family in food stamps that money will be spent and re-spent by the grocery store and equal $173.00 in economic activity.

If we give a banker a $100.00 tax cut, that money will stay in an investment account and will not be re-spent and will not generate other spending on other things which will guarantee that jobs exist to provide those things... well, you see what I mean.

SPENDING increases the economy. TAX CUTS keep the economy in chains.

President Obama told the Democratic Representatives meeting in Williamsburg that STIMULUS MEANS SPENDING. We all support him, don't we? We elected him over a competitor whose economic policies and the economic policies of his Party had dragged us into the worst situation since the 1930s. Yet we have listened to McCain steer the Republican side of the debate to TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS, TAX CUTS.

McCain and McConnell and Graham and all the other damned fool Republicans have been using their ability to prevent a 60 vote majority as a whip. Democrats better stand up to them. If not, the economy will continue to fail, more jobs will be lost, less and less will be manufactured or sold, less and less employment of workers will be necessary... it will just continue to spiral into the toilet.

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2/6/09, 11:48 PM  
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