First of all
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Second of all, let's take a brief look at the Democrats "economic stimulus" package. Some of the larger items in the nearly 1 trillion dollar outlay are as follows:
$20.0 billion to increase the maximum benefit under the Supplemental Nutrition Assurance Program (i.e., Food Stamps)
$18.5 billion for energy efficiency and renewable energy programs
$20.4 billion for programs administered by the Department of health and Human Services
$20.0 billion to renovate elementary and secondary schools
$17.6 billion for Pell grants and other student financial assistance at post-secondary institutions
$29.1 billion for other elementary and secondary educational programs
$30.0 billion for highway construction
$13.1 billion for other transportation programs
$11.2 billion for housing assistance programs administered by HUD
$19.5 billion (minimum, could be higher, as per Title XIII) for education grants to states
$27.1 billion for increase unemployment benefits
$13.3 billion to increase health insurance for unemployed workers
$11.1 billion for “Other Unemployment Compensation”
$20.2 billion for Medicaid and Medicare incentive payments to encourage providers to improve healthcare IT
If these items are "economic stimulus", than we would all be calling each other Comrade and singing paeans to the Party, as Communist Russia would have stimulated itself into complete world domination by now. The democrats are insanely ignorant to be pushing this garbage through, and I applaud the congressional republicans for voting to a man against it.