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Video: White House pretty sure re-sodding the Mall will create jobs or something
Hot Air » Top Picks —
... . And to think, I once imagined The One’s jobs plan would involve little more than makework duties like cleaning parks. Actually, the Mall funding’s just a tiny part of the stimulus — $200 million out of what’s now approaching $900 billion — but, just like they did with the ...
KEY STIMULUS VOTE WEDNESDAY
The Page by Mark Halperin —
... Meanwhile: WSJ believes the stimulus bill is closer to $900 billion in cost. ...
Now that he needs a favor, he’s suddenly Limbaugh’s best friend
PoliPundit.com —
... Wednesday, January 28th, 2009 Now that he needs a favor, he’s suddenly Limbaugh’s best friend Obama Agrees to Trim Alternative Minimum Tax; Lobbies Rush for Cut of the Pie - headline, Wall Street Journal, 1/28/2009 -- ...
The Trillion-Dollar Stimulus
Hit & Run —
The Wall Street Journal has a gruesome article today that pushes the stimulus price tag into 10-figure la-la land and lists in depressing detail the Lobbyists Gone Wild on Capitol Hill this week. The magnitude of the spending bill, and its urgency, drew a swarm of lobbyists seeking money and tax breaks. The concrete and asphalt industries battled over how the government should spend billions proposed for road and bridge repairs, while dairy and beef cattle producers butted heads over talk that the government might buy up dairy cattle for ...
Spending Us Into Third World Status
Riehl World View —
This is insane. The so-called stimulus package is now up near another trillion dollars. That after trillions have already been spent.
$335 million for STD prevention? What the hell does that have to do with helping the economy??
Michelle has a more comprehensive run down and the names and numbers for Congress. Our voices in opposition need to be heard. The private sector grows the economy, government only drains it. All the Democrats are trying to do is take advantage of a bad economy and Hopey McChange fever to do what they always do - spend money ...
“Stimulus” bill needs to die…
The Anchoress —
I’m tied up with a project, but since you don’t have to waste three minutes reading me today, do take two of them and call your representative and let him or her know how you feel about this absurdly pork-filled “stimulus” package, which is approaching almost 900 BILLION dollars.
The package does not seem to create many jobs at all - but it does keep shoveling money at the people who waste it while producing nothing and creating few jobs.
Tell them you’re not ...
Why Buy the Cow?
Hit & Run —
From today's Wall Street Journal front pager on the stimulus bill: Dairy and beef cattle producers butted heads over talk that the government might buy up dairy cattle for slaughter to drive up depressed milk prices. Correct me if I'm wrong, but isn't the image of families scrimping and saving to buy milk for the children a classic Depression tale of woe? Here we are, with the 1930s foremost in everyone's minds, and we're going to legislatively order the deaths of a bunch of cows in order to keep prices high as ...
Is the Stimulus About to be Overtaken by TARP II?
Weekly Standard Blog —
The House of Representatives will today pass President Obama's $900 billion stimulus bill, despite the beliefs of many economists that it will do nothing to help the economy, and despite concerns that it's nothing more than an aggregate of the spending wish lists of Washington Democrats, saved up for decades.
And while Congressional leaders are going full steam ahead, some House Democrats are starting say publicly what others have been saying privately for weeks: this debt spending package is not going to solve the problem, and it may actually work ...
How many votes can $1.2 TRILLION Buy?
Flopping Aces —
... a crisis you know!!!
Starting weeks after his election Obama’s plan began to take shape as Democrats first hinted at a plan costing in the range of $500 to $700 billion. But Democrats rushed to add billions more for their favorite programs quickly taking the estimated cost to $775 billion in the first week of January only to climb over $825 billion then $850 billion last week.
As Congress prepares to expedite passage of the bill the amount now reaches $ 900 billion with the total cost of the debt incurred taking the package over $1.2 ...
So Begins The Rent-Seeking
RedState: Conservative News and Community —
... The degree to which special interests are seeking breaks and assistance in the stimulus bill should appall people of reasonable sensibilities: ...
So Begins The Rent-Seeking
A Chequer-Board of Nights and Days —
The degree to which special interests are seeking breaks and assistance in the stimulus bill should appall people of reasonable sensibilities: Craig Silvertooth, the president of the Center for Environmental Innovation in Roofing, said he's concerned that lawmakers have failed to include tax incentives for energy-efficient roofs using solar panels. But the geothermal heat pump industry -- represented by lobbyists for one company, Oklahoma-based ClimateMaster Inc. -- said it won equal footing with solar and wind companies through a 30% homeowner tax credit in the House bill ...
Murdock: Dont Let Nancy and Harry Steer the Ship of State
Articles on National Review Online —
... . At $40 each, why not tell Americans to suck it up and fund this themselves? Sacrificing $1 per day accumulates the needed money within six weeks. [image] $800 million for biomass projects. [image] $2 billion for a near-zero-emissions electrical plant in Matoon, Ill. [image] $2.4 billion for carbon-sequestration technology. [image] $15.6 billion in Pell Grants to aid college students. [image] According to January 28 s Wall Street Journal , dairy and beef cattle producers butted heads over talk that the government might buy up dairy cattle for slaughter to drive up depressed ...
The Alternative Minimum Tax and the Stimulus Package
Daily Kos —
... This raises an interesting question. Why is the usual AMT alteration being shoved through by the Senate as part of the stimulus package? Back on January 28 the Wall Street Journal noted: ...
The Grassley-Isakson-Coburn-Collins-Bad Nelson Bill
Firedoglake —
... Back in January, Chuck Grassley got the Obama Administration to agree to move the Alternative Minimum Tax patch into stimulus, for a cost of $69 billion.The AMT patch, because it basically goes to upper middle class taxpayers, will likely have minimal stimulutive value. And it would be passed later this year, in any case. But unlike other measures that weren't really stimulus and which should be passed in normal budgeting process, this remains in the bill. Chuck Grassley is not going to vote for this stimulus bill. ...
