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Congratulations everyone! You’ve been Stimulated!

By Uppity Woman on February 14, 2009 at 7:10 PM in American Consumers, Banking Institutions, Congress (House & Senate), Earmarks, Economic Stimulus, Economy, Housing & Housing Crisis, President Barack Obama, stimulus tax package

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The giveaway bill to special interests Porkulus Stimulus Bill has been passed.

I would especially like to congratulate all the young Obama supporters, because you are all going to be paying this bill off for the rest of your lives, except for the part you pass onto your kids. Mom and Dad won’t be able to afford any more bright shiny objects for you or supplement your income pretty soon. So please enjoy your impending poverty little Comrades and Comradesses of Amerikan Edjukashion System, as we put off the inevitable for a little while, while the dollar plunges into an abyss and China gears up to say “No” next time we ask for money. And don’t forget the Big Two Out of Three auto makers will need their payroll met for another few months, So they will be vi$iting us all again $oon. And then they will visit us again April…and then….

So you see, somebody is going to have to pay for all of this in the future one way or another, little Comrades. ”Future” is a political term for “Next Generations,” used by smarmy elected officials who know they will be long gone when you are finally all grown up and cursing them for your struggle. But don’t worry! There will be more food stamps. And public housing. It’s in the bill just for you, to get you started. The Government will take care of you, so don’t worry. Personal financial advancement is sooooooo over-rated anyways.

I know, I know. All of this stuff is so……..boring!

Where’s my ipod???

But cheer up. You will get a tax rebate! $13 a week! Except if you don’t work. Then you will just get a lot of free stuff you think you won’t be paying for in the future. So, don’t forget to spend your rebate as fast as you can. Do not save this money. That’s greedy and unAmerican! Savers really suck! The important thing is that you owe money and still spend your rebate. Please do not screw this up by paying for stupid things like heat or credit card bills. Buy something cool that you really can’t afford. Let me repeat: Do. Not. Save. Your. Rebate. That’s selfish.

Ah well, maybe you can get Iran to help you all out with paying this all back for the next 50 years or so. Ahmadinejad is so sweet, really. Look how he helps out Hamas. All that nasty behavior and driving over Obama posters with cars is all an act. He’s really a nice guy. Honest! Don’t let that thing about the nukes and killing all Jews and infidels such as yourself for the Coming Of The Mysterious Savior put you off. I mean, don’t let the fact that the even Ayatolla Khomeini thought these zealots were nuts, and that’s saying a lot. But don’t worry. It’s all “Just words”. That’s why it’s a good idea to cut the defense budget. Now run along and watch a Reality Show and text UR friends. K? Thx!

riverdaughterstimulusmoneyAnd look at all the cool environmental things in the bill! You will be living in a box under the tracks in winter, praying for some real global warming, but the air will sure be cleaner, federal buildings will be looking so cool, the Smithsonian will look even better, although it already is pretty nice, not that you will be able to afford the trip. (”Stimulus” poster shamelessly stolen from Riverdaughter)

Guess what other stimulating things will happen? Important Golfers will have new electric carts, your TVs will have a better picture if you still have them, the place where you once worked will be safer and will even unionize, even though it’s going out of business. There will be job training programs though, to keep you busy since there aren’t any jobs. And I know that, even though you are an Electrical Engineer, you will enjoy planting grass at the National Mall that got ruined during the Inauguration. That is, if an illegal alien doesn’t get the job first, because the part about any jobs created going to Americans has been removed from the bill. Just saying. Word has it, though, that things are so bad here in Amerika, many illegal aliens are moving back to Mexico and declaring their Amerikan born kids as Mexican citizens. How bad does it have to get here for that to happen? Just think about it. I’ll wait….

pig_troughBut this stimulus bill offers plenty of Hope. All the people who are losing their homes will have broadband capability if they ever find another place they can afford to live in, “volunteers” will get paid, those new prison buildings will start to look good to you compared to living on the street. And….. universities you can’t afford to attend will get new buildings. Nancy’s Wetland Mouse won’t be evicted though! And don’t worry: Barney Frank is looking out for you again just like he did with Fannie Mae.

crystalballYou can see how well this is all going to stimulate the economy in record time. And guess what, boys and girls? 53% of the money won’t even be spent until late 2011, just in time for Your President to make things temporarily look good for re-election. Like Magic! Not that he will even need to do that, because by then ACORN will have completed the 10-year Census so he can re-arrange Congressional Districts. Till then, well, what can I tell you? You’ll just have to wait. Eating and paying bills is so under-rated anyways, right ? Some things are just more important than you are. Like elections, for example. But don’t worry. The Weatherstripping Program will help you out by making sure that the cardboard box you will be living in is nice and air tight. Hey, I have an idea: Solar panels for cardboard boxes– with tax credits for the unemployed. But don’t be looking for the Fishes To Feed The Masses routine. This Messiah is going to be fresh out of fishes by then.

And here’s the best part: Nearly one third of the bill is dedicated to Health Care, with interesting wording like “Meaningful Users,” which, besides being downright scary, has nothing to do with stimulating the economy, but nevermind.

Of course, other stuff has been added to the bill, and stuff that was once removed was put back in it, but we don’t really know what, because nobody got a chance to read the revised bill. Not even Congress. They were given a hard copy of the new version. No PDF file to search for key words. Voting on something like that is kind of like when you go to a flea market and buy one of those Mystery Boxes. You don’t know what’s in it, then you open it up and Surprise! It’s a pile of crap you can’t use. I suspect this Mystery Box will be opened up within the next few days. But of course, it will be too late to tell the pubic what’s going on. That’s the idea.

Look at this guy, will you? Bitch Bitch Bitch.

I thought I might share some of the really interesting things in the bill, stolen from an RBO post entitled, Here’s What Generational Debt Looks Like. What a catchy title. I’m sure a few things have changed overnight, but you can bet none of them improved this bill’s status as economic ”Stimulus”.

(From RBO):

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Here are just a few items from MM’s “handy list of pork in the Sellout Substitute Amendment from the Turncoat Caucus”:

  • $2 billion Blagojevich earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions powerplant in Mattoon, IL.
  • $2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars.
  • $3 million for purchasing “neighborhood electric vehicles” (golf carts).
  • $5.5 billion for making federal buildings “green” (including $448 million for DHS HQ).
  • $650 million for the DTV transition coupon program.
  • $200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities.
  • $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries.
  • $75 million for the Smithsonian Institution.
  • $750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD.
  • $224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico.
  • $10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners.
  • $850 million for Amtrak.
  • $100 million for lead paint hazard reduction.
  • $39 billion slush fund for “state fiscal stabilization” bailout.
  • $275 million for flood prevention.
  • $65 million for watershed rehabilitation.
  • $255 million for “priority procurements” at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker).
  • $650 million for abandoned mine sites.
  • $1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for “science” at NASA).
  • $100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program.
  • $1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though the original section only authorizes $1 billion for five years).
  • $300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees.
  • $500 million for State and local fire stations.
  • $180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities.
  • $500 million for wildland fire management.
  • $110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service.
  • $522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs.
  • $500 million earmark for National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, MD.
  • $100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings.
  • $300 million for constructing Federal Bureau of Investigation (FBI) office buildings.
  • $800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities.
  • $307 million for constructing National Institute for Standards and Technology (NIST) office buildings.
  • $1 billion for administrative costs and construction of National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) office buildings.
  • $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corp. for National and Community Service.

Hillbuzz comments: “The above is not even 10% of the treasure Obama’s going to swirl down the toilet. It’s unprecedented, unimaginable, and reprehensible. Every last member of Congress needs to be held accountable for this.”

Blogger arturoafc54 adds some more loony spending requestsfrom the Spenderific Bill:

  • $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
  • $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
  • $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
  • $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
  • $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
  • $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
  • $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
  • $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
  • $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
  • $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
  • $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
  • $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
  • $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
  • $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
  • $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
  • $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
  • $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
  • $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
  • $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
  • $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
  • $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

Definitely the longest list is Pro Patria’s, whose “long but hardly exhaustive list of stimulus pork is frightening, particularly when you realize it’s not even close to being the whole hog. Check these items out:

  • $2 billion for rural business and industry guaranteed loans.
  • $22.1 billion for rural housing insurance fund loans.
  • $2.8 billion for loans to spur rural broadband.
  • $150 million for emergency food assistance.
  • $50 million for regional economic development commissions.
  • $1 billion for “Periodic Censuses and Programs”.
  • $350 million for State Broadband Data and Development Grants.
  • $1.8 billion for Rural Broadband Deployment Grants.
  • $1 billion for Rural Wireless Deployment Grants.
  • $30 million for necessary expenses of the “Hollings Manufacturing Extension Partnership”.
  • $300 million for a competitive construction grant program for research science buildings.
  • $600 million for “accelerating satellite development and acquisition”.
  • $140 million for “climate data modeling”.
  • $250 million for “accelerating the development of the tier 1 set of Earth science climate research missions recommended by the National Academies Decadal Survey.”
  • $50 million for repairs to NASA facilities from storm damage.
  • $300 million for “Major Research Insrumentation program” (science).
  • $200 million for “academic research facilities modernization”.
  • $100 million for “Education and Human Resources”.
  • $400 million for “Major Research Equipment and Facilities Construction”.
  • $4.5 billion to make military facilities more energy efficient.
  • $1.5 billion for Army Operation and Maintenance fund.
  • $624 million for Navy Operation and Maintenance.
  • $128 million for Marine Corps Operation and Maintenance.
  • $1.23 billion for Air Force Operation and Maintenance.
  • $454 million to “Defense Health Program”.
  • $110 million for Army Reserve Operation and Maintenance.
  • $62 million for Navy Reserve Operation and Maintenance.
  • $45 million for Marine Corps Reserve Operation and Maintenance.
  • $14 million for Air Force Reserve Operation and Maintenance.
  • $302 million for National Guard Operation and Maintenance.
  • $29 million for Air National Guard Operation and Maintenance.
  • $350 million for military energy research and development programs.
  • $2 billion for Army Corps of Engineers “Construction”.
  • $800 million of that is for biomass research and $400 million for geothermal technologies
  • $1 billion in grants to “institutional entities for energy sustainability and efficiency”.
  • $6.2 billion for the Weatherization Assistance Program.
  • $3.5 billion for Energy Efficiency and Conservation Block Grants.
  • $3.4 billion for state energy programs.
  • $200 million for expenses to implement energy independence programs.
  • $300 million for expenses to implement Energy efficient appliance rebate programs including the Energy Star program.
  • $400 million for expenses to implement Alternative Fuel Vehicle and Infrastructure Grants to States and Local Governments.
  • $1 billion for expenses necessary for advanced battery manufacturing.
  • $4.5 billion to modernize the nation’s electricity grid.
  • $1 billion for the Advanced Battery Loan Guarantee Program.
  • $100 million for “non-intrusive detection technology to be deployed at sea ports of entry
  • $150 million for repair and construction at land border ports of entry.
  • $500 million for explosive detection systems for aviation security.
  • $150 million for alteration or removal of obstructive bridges.
  • $200 million for FEMA Emergency Food and Shelter program.
  • $325 million for Interior Department road, bridge and trail repair projects.
  • $800 million for Superfund programs.
  • $200 million for leaking underground storage tank cleanup.
  • $50 million in grants to fund “arts projects and activities which preserve jobs in the non-profit arts sector threatened by declines in philanthropic and other support during the current economic downturn” through the National Endowment for the Arts.
  • $1 billion for states in dislocated worker employment and training activities.
  • $500 million for the dislocated workers assistance national reserve.
  • $80 million for the enforcement of worker protection laws and regulations related to infrastructure and unemployment insurance investments.
  • $300 million for “construction, rehabilitation and acquisition of Job Corps Centers”.
  • $600 million for nurse, physician and dentist training.
  • $700 million for “comparative effectiveness research” on prescription drugs.
  • $1 billion for Low-Income Home Energy Assistance.
  • $2 billion in Child Care and Development Block Grants for states.
  • $1 billion for Head Start programs.
  • $1.1 billion for Early Head Start programs.
  • $100 million for Social Security research programs.
  • $200 million for “Aging Services Programs”.
  • $2 billion for “Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology”.
  • $430 million for public health/social services emergency funds.
  • $5.5 billion in targeted education grants.
  • $5.5 billion in “education finance incentive grants”.
  • $2 billion in “school improvement grants”.
  • $13.6 billion for Individuals with Disabilities Education Act.
  • $250 million for statewide education data systems.
  • $14 billion for school modernization, renovation and repair.
  • $160 million for AmeriCorps grants.
  • $500 million to improve processing of disability and retirement claims.
  • $920 million for Army housing and child development centers.
  • $350 million for Navy and Marine Corps housing and child development centers.
  • $280 million in Air Force housing and child development centers.
  • $3.75 billion in military hospital and surgery center construction.
  • $950 million for VA Medical Facilities.
  • $50 million for repairs for military cemeteries.
  • $120 million for a backup information management facility for the State Department.
  • $98 million for National Cybersecurity Initiative.
  • $3 billion for “Grants-in-Aid for Airports”.
  • $300 million for Indian Reservation roads.
  • $800 million for national railroad assets or infrastructure repairs, upgrades.
  • $5.4 billion in federal transit grants.
  • $2 billion in infrastructure development for subways and commuter railways.
  • $5 billion for public housing capital.
  • $1 billion in competitive housing grants.
  • $2.5 billion for energy efficiency upgrades in public housing.
  • $500 million in Native American Housing Block Grants.
  • $4.1 billion to help communities deal with foreclosed homes.
  • $1.5 billion in homeless prevention activities.
  • $79 billion in education funds for states.

Earlier Pro Patria noted $4.19 billion for ACORN and other bogus “community organizing” groups. No surprise here.

Here’s a selection from Armageddonoutahere’s blog post We See the Pork But Where’s the Beef?

  • $380 million to set up a rainy-day fund for a nutrition program that serves low-income women and children.
  • $300 million for grants to combat violence against women.
  • $6 billion on university building projects.
  • $15 billion expansion of the Pell Grant program.
  • $4 billion Federal job-training programs.
  • $5.2 billion for community development block grants and “neighborhood stabilization activities,” which ACORN is eligible to apply for.
  • $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24.
  • $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”.
  • $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”.
  • $34 million to fix up the Commerce Department.
  • $89 billion in Medicaid extensions.
  • $36 billion in expanded unemployment benefits, this is in addition to the state-budget bailout.
  • $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension.
  • $20 billion for food stamps.
  • $55 million for the preservation of historic landmarks.

Oh and one more thing. Here’s The President of the United States “leading by example,” telling YOU to live within your means. No $100 a pound Wagyu beef for you.

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From my blog, Uppity Woman.

  • Seattle Moss

    Obama and his minions have tanked this economy for $13 bucks a week
    That doesn’t even buy me a Happy meal a day!

    I’m still not feeling stimulated

    Pass the cialis

  • Seattle Moss

    Uppity..Not to make light this is the best article you have written!

  • Neverland

    It’s no use, Obama’s minions will always blame Bush and the war in Iraq for everything. Just like the republicans blamed Clinton for 9/11 and for all the actions taken after that.

  • Obushma

    Welcome to third world America! All Hail El Presidente Hussane Bama!!!

  • James

    The scary thing is that this is just the beginning. Expect another bill in the 500 to 900 billion range by the end of this year once this stimulus is proven to be inadequate in actually stimulating the economy. There will be another bill, so brace yourself for another debate.

    And we’re not even talking about the multi-trillion dollar bailout being planned for the bank crisis! When is that going to start? What a mess.

  • sandshark222

    All these blasphemous comments are offensive to Dear Leader, comrades! We must embrace the glorious cause of change that is sweeping the motherland!

    We must be busy little worker bees doing our duty to serve Dear Leader. Do not question his motives, comrades. Just know that when each glorious day ends he puts food on your table and keeps the harvest grand!

    So what if there is inflation? Dear Leader will just print more money for the economy! So what if there is more unemployment? Those comrades that have jobs will work even harder to help fellow worker bees and the sweat and blood will contribute to the glory of the motherland!

  • Texas Playwright

    Oink, Oink.
    ACORN brown shirts, arise.
    Pay to Play DC rules the nation.

    Socialism is welfare for the poor.
    Capitalism is a quaint practice for the rich.
    Such is life nowadays.

  • bethtopaz

    Here’s a good article that explains the motive behind this and future “stimulus bills.”

    http://www.americanthinker.com/2008/09/barack_obama_and_the_strategy.html

  • Ferd Berfle

    Which means that everything falls into Bill’s lap in the Let’s-Blame-the-Predecessor Game. God how I wish he or his wife were President. Shrub couldn’t even tie his own shoe laces and That One needs applause every time he does. I am so tired of lame-ass Presidents.

  • Ferd Berfle

    $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24.

    What are they going to train them to do, learn the art of more effective mooching off parents? How to do even less in half the time? How to keep cheeto dust off your keyboard? How to spruce up a basement?

    Now there’s money going down a bottomless chasm.

  • Peggy Sue

    Stimulated, eh? I new way of being screwed, as your accompanying picture so graphically displays, Uppity.

    The only saving grace in all this is that Obama and his minions will own this monstrosity. They’re good at propaganda. We’ve all seen that. But there’s plenty more handouts coming down the pike.

    I’ve been appalled by the “blindness” of many. But once the Obamanation gores the population deeply enough, I expect even the brain dead to react.

    But then, I’m a hopeless optimist.

    As for Arlen Specter. I hope he’s toast in Pennsylvania. Call me crazy, but his support of this mega-theft is no different than the “magic bullet” theory.

    Expedient to the max. He’s “a man of his word” my ass!

  • I’m a Linda too

    AND, apparently BOberry needs more ego building while he WASTES MORE TAX PAYER DOLLARY TO MAKE A STUPID PHOTO OP and supporter cheers, to FLY TO COLORADO FOR HIS STIMULATING PORT BILL SIGNING.

    AMAZING.

    He’s putting Bush to shame for ego building rallies.

    HOW MUCH IS THIS LITTLE JAUNT GOING TO WASTECOST US?

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    The gang of three + one (Mrs. Dear Leader) have jobs for the unemployed and elderly. We will clean the streets and the parks of dog poo so we can be appreciated. As Mrs. Dear Leader said, you can’t be appreciated if you are idle.

  • Winston

    Exactly. Obama is learning on the Job, why can’t they?

  • Lisa_NY

    Thank you , Thank you , Thank you…
    One of the best articles I have read on this crap sandwich of a bill.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Thank you. I agree with every point in the article. The welfare state of the 60′s led to the destruction of the black family and the beginning of the fatherless families we see today. Let’s hope they remember. Boy, do we ever need Bill Cosby and other role models for an awakening.

  • Frank

    Hillary would have passed a similar bill.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    I’m only surprised that he’s not doing the signing at the replica of Lincoln’s log cabin.

    And, no. I’m not stimulated.

  • http://sonicninjakitty.wordpress.com Sonic Ninja Kitty

    Hey, Sandshark, that kind of talk is starting to make sense to me :( It goes with this sing-along: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l46t_nrySg4

    Aren’t there stages to grief? I think the first is shock, then denial–which I had been enjoying very much, thank you–and next is anger. The tricky part is to channel the anger constructively.

    This cannot go on, folks–it just cannot.

  • http://firefox AnnieCollier

    Perfect, Comrade.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Here’s what gets me – I saw a headline tonight that Obama is celebrating this MAJOR win. Major win?? Like we didn’t all know it was going to be passed BEFORE he went out campaigning (and lying through his teeth, abt what the CEO of Caterpillar allegedly said? Glad the CEO had the backbone to speak the truth.). NO Republicans in the House voted for it, and several Dems voted against it. So, why is this such a major win?

    Oh, right. Because Obama has to be lauded and applauded at every turn, or else his little feelings get hurt.

    And O/T, but WTH with him leaving the WH to take time off – twice now in a MONTH. He is worse than Bush. Of course, now, the Obots will all say he DESERVES the time off because he is so nifty keen cool and it’s so hard working out at the gym and everything…Sheesh.

  • NCgirl

    Great post Uppity! You really tell it like it is.

  • Ferd Berfle

    Anytime he gets his way it’s a major win and time for a celebration. For he’s a jolly-good fellow and all that rubbish. I’m already sick of him.

  • Seattle Moss

    Folks,
    In times like these I wish we had a real hero that we could turn to.
    In Seattle we used to have such a hero that protected us.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OvliK5Ysp_A

  • Ferd Berfle

    And how would you know this, Oracle? Do you use tea leaves or cheeto remnants?

  • Docelder

    It wasn’t a few months back that she and Bill were out campaigning for him. To me, the 90′s are gone along with the 90′s versions of the Clintons. They had their time, and did well for their time. I don’t know what of them is left for any of the “we the people” type folks today. I think maybe Palin could turn out to the Reagan figure of our generation, I am hopeful of that… else this may be the beginning of the very end of the way of life we know today.

  • Andy

    HAHAHA: Hillary would have NEVER let (as in delegate) Pelosi the stimulus bill!!

  • Andy

    Great post Uppity and much appreciate the info. Those list made me sick….

  • The Real HC

    Nice post Uppity, you rock.

  • Ferd Berfle

    That was hysterical.

  • Frank

    Ferd: Based on the fact that every single Democratic Senator voted for the bill, and had Hillary been a senator, she would have voted for it too. If you think otherwise, you’re engaging in your own voodoo speculation, utterly divorced from any knowledge of Hillary’s actual legislative record. Everything we know about her suggests she would have supported this bill.

  • Ferd Berfle

    You’re getting your news from the voices in your head again, And you still don’t know that she would have “voted” for it since you aren’t her and unless you are clairvoyant, you wouldn’t know, anyway. I’ve made the point a second time. You really ought to refrain from making predictions based on faulty logic or unknown facts as they are your undoing.

  • Docelder

    If the Cloward-Piven type theory is at play here… we’ll call it the Obama-Pelosi strategy… then yes, stimulus and even pork is not the ultimate objective. If this model is in play then there will be stimulus 3, followed by stimulus 4 until our dollar and economy do completely collapse… and then the real socialism can begin. I am not saying this is the plan… only that it’s not out of the realm of the possible. The far left hates capitalism, and embraces socialist agendas. I don’t think they would bring us true socialism however, I think we would be looking at some from of socialist oligarchy. I don’t see Pelosi giving up her private taxpayer funded jet… or Obama giving up Kobe beef. No, the change would only be for the rest of us.

  • Peggy Sue

    It’s amazing how Obamatrons need to cast back to HRC, now in a clarivoyent manner, to deflect, distract from the issue at hand:

    A rotten Democratic Bill, a politically motivated bill, which will bankrupt, not only the present generation, but generations to come.

    Go stimulate yourself, Frank. That’s about as much good as this porkfest will have on the current financial problem. And you and Obama and all the other Obamatrons own this monstrosity. Big time!!

  • nickoury

    Hey, the President of the United States of America is NOT named “Hussein”.

    Oh wait a second, it IS.

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    Actually, Barack and his family are very good roll models for African Americans and the concept of American families in general. The problem is he talks the talk but he is creating a situation where all of America’s urban poor, not just African Americans, but all of them, will stay beholding to the government. I imagine this is deliberate, I just don’t see how it will help a soul other than those who are already rich, or those who are in power in DC. Good for Me, Not For Thee. Once you create a gratitude situation, you can keep people down and always get their votes because now they have a wee tad more than they had before. But they can never gain. That’s pretty sad.

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    It’s true this is Nancy’s bill. Has her prints all over it. The funny party is, if it weren’t for Fascisto Nancy, Barack would still be doing town halls and the Brother Love’s Traveling Salvation show trying to drum up support for the bill. Nancy wields the power. Much as I seek women in leadership roles, I never expected it to be someone like her.

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    Sister, Catepiller’s CEO is no fool. He smells the ability to pull the oldest Corporate America trick going. You want to lay off five, but since the government is going to help you pay for employees, lay off ten. Then hire back the five. It’s a win situation, financially.

  • http://www.rabblerouserruminations.blogspot.com/ Rabble Rouser Reverend Amy

    Good point, Uppity!

    I understand the employees at the plant weren’t all that impressed by Obama and his spiel, either…But I hear ya abt the CEO – still, took some hubris for him to say, “Uh, no – that’s not what I said,” ya know? :-)

  • Strawberry

    You and me both, Ferd. We’ve become a nation of settlers. And I don’t mean pioneers. Just call America the 70%ers.

  • TexasMirth

    $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”.

    Could someone explain what neighborhood stabilization activities are? Brownshirts?

  • Baba Rum Raisin

    In looking at all the sow’s ears…er, earmarks in this, I don’t see an item for statues of V.I. Lenin.

    Will the gov’t commission new statues under the National Endowment for the Arts, or will we pick up “pre-owned” Lenin replicas from the former USSR?

    ‘Scise me while I check to see if I need to be a Bolshevik or a Menshevik this week.

  • bayareavoter

    After 8 yrs of Bush we didn’t deserve this, did we?

    I can’t believe it.

  • Strawberry

    I’m beginning to think this is karma payback for a nation that voted Bush into office and kept him there for two whole terms. Wait a minute…I didn’t vote for Bush or Barky. Why are WE being collectivly punished?

  • Seattle Moss

    Your not alone…I haven’t voted for a winner since 1996

  • AlexisM

    I didn’t vote for Bush, B-Crack, none of them. I didn’t really care, to be honest, in any of the elections. Probably a big mistake. But when McCain lost this time I felt like I was punched in the stomach and still do.

  • AlexisM

    No one knows what Hillary would have done about the Bacon Bill. Since we are all merely speculating, I will continue to think that she would have stopped this and called attention to the fact that no one read this Crap Sandwich. She was never afraid to take on those criminals Obama, Pelosi, etc. And I think she would have shown her love of country, and her backbone, unlike the rest of the Dimocrat sheep who voted to sell America out.

  • Seattle Moss

    Sometimes we take for granted the traditions that we have been brought up with. It is only when we see the threat of it all being taken away that we react.
    Today I enjoy retracing the footsteps of my heritage as I feel that it is now in the past tense and fading away.

    Merle Haggard
    Are the Good Times Really over for Good

    I wish a buck was still silver.
    It was back when the country was strong.
    Back before Elvis; before the Vietnam war came along.
    Before The Beatles and “Yesterday”,
    When a man could still work, and still would.
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?
    Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
    With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
    Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
    Could still last ten years, like they should.
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?

    I wish coke was still cola,
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    And a joint was a bad place to be.
    And it was back before Nixon lied to us all on TV.
    Before microwave ovens,
    When a girl could still cook and still would.
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?

    Are we rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell?
    With no kind of chance for the Flag or the Liberty bell.
    Wish a Ford and a Chevy,
    Could still last ten years, like they should.
    Is the best of the free life behind us now?
    Are the good times really over for good?

    Stop rolling down hill like a snowball headed for hell.
    Stand up for the Flag and let’s all ring the Liberty bell.
    Let’s make a Ford and a Chevy,
    Still last ten years, like they should.
    The best of the free life is still yet to come,
    The good times ain’t over for good.
    Lyrics: Are the Good Times Really over for Good,
    Merle Haggard

  • AlexisM

    Of course it’s the plan. There’s no tin foil hat conspiracy here. It’s truth. George Soros gave an interview with the Russian version of the Wall Street Journal and talked about how the dollar is going to go away for good soon. That’s what he wanted. And that’s why Hillary isn’t around. Soros bought the White House for the Fraud so he could do to us what he did to England – collapse our monetary system. Plain, simple truth. Soros couldn’t buy Hillary, but he bought the Fraud. And, yes, this will go on and on until we are done and we get our own version of the Euro, the Amero. Nice.

    Oh, yeah, and of course the Fraud, Pelosi, etc. wouldn’t have to give up there bazillions of personal wealth that they stole from us. Like I said on another thread…even in Soviet Russia the elite class ate caviar all day and lived like Kings. It will be us and them. No one in the middle because the middle class will once and for all be completely eradicated. That’s the plan.

  • obamastolemyboyfriend

    Sorry, but this has all put me in gloom and doom mode. I have been stocking up on non perishables and blankest and socks (Read the book The Road, sicks are important), seriously! Unfortunately, I had more bad thoughts today. One is how good the timing would be for the terrorists to take us down now. If anything bad, like a Septmeber 11th or even some Natural Disaster or plague or something, I shudder to think what

  • obamastolemyboyfriend

    Sorry, but this has all put me in gloom and doom mode. I have been stocking up on non perishables and blankest and socks (Read the book The Road, sicks are important), seriously! Unfortunately, I had more bad thoughts today. One is how good the timing would be for the terrorists to take us down now. If anything bad, like a Septmeber 11th or even some Natural Disaster or plague or something, I shudder to think what would happen.

  • obamastolemyboyfriend

    stupid weird computer! Don’t know why the partial comment! Oh, and socks are important, not sicks, but this non stimulus crap does make me sicks!

  • TeakwoodKite

    $750 (mil?)earmark for the National Computer Center in MD.

    I thought that was at Fort Meade?

    And What presicely goes on there?
    –
    $1.2 billion for “youth activities” (for “youth” up to 24 years old)

    Ok, so these activites are what exactly? If and when they pdf the bill I will search for what this means, but as of 10 pages deep all I get is a google echo. Anyone?
    –
    $8 billion for high-speed railways. Just like in California they thought it would happen.

    A billion dollars extra for the 2010 U.S. Census, which is going to pay good money to many jobless people in every American town — and shore up Lockheed-Martin, which is getting $500 million to build the data systems and run the machinery

    –
    If anyone ever sends you a postcard with the blue water canals of Holland in it, don’t believe it. They are green; having jumped in one in Rotterdam, I can tell you this bill reminds me of that adventure.

  • PO’dVet

    If they really wanted to “stimulate” the economy. They should throw out all of these bullshit corporate bailouts. Send the money to the American people, rather than the richest and most corrupt of them. Just imagine how the economy would be stimulated if every man woman and child in America suddenly had $3,000 to spend. Houses would be saved. Cars bought, bills paid. OMG!! It might not only save the jobs we are bleeding right now, but add thousands more new jobs!

  • AlexisM

    I think it’s great, a really positive thing, that Obama’s “Presidency” gives AAs hope that they too can be POTUS. No worries there. But, then, what will happen when it’s exposed worldwide what a total fraud he is? If we already know Obots who have figured it out, in under a month, how long will it take for it to spread like wildfire? Very sad indeed.

  • AlexisM

    The joke is going to be on the lazy little Obot moochers who suddenly have to report to Uncle Rahm’s Military Camp. I doubt they will like the calisthenics at 5 am. We’ll all be laughing our butts off when the Hitler Jugend get what they deserve.

  • no kidding

    neverland — Obama can only blame Bush for so long before people blame him. Obama ran around and sold this bill — now he owns it. The entire debacle will be his. Americans outrage will be heard around the world.

  • no kidding

    teakwood kettle — How about 72 Bill for Science? No explanation at all. JUST SCIENCE.

  • no kidding

    Its a new world when people like Barney Frank who yell at Bank Presidents for making loans which they were forced to make by people like Barney Frank.

  • Jim S

    If this were Bush, the MSM would be saying that BUSH FIDDLES WHILE AMERICA BURNS!

  • http://uppitywoman08.wordpress.com Uppity Woman

    It’s ironic isn’t it? Or more like the Mad Hatters’ Tea Party…

  • Ferd Berfle

    Agreed. And that was the gist of my point to Frank, aka, Francis the Talking Mule Troll.

  • Ferd Berfle

    I have only picked a winner twice in 32 years–WJC. And I agree, the loss by McCain was particularly devastating.

  • mountainaires

    John Williams at Shadowstats.org has a stunning fact for all those little comrades and comradesses to mull over, as they’re contemplating how they will feed themselves, their children, and their elderly parents, not too far down the line:

    Federal obligations exceed world GDP
    Does $65.5 trillion terrify anyone yet?

    http://www.worldnetdaily.com/index.php?fa=PAGE.view&pageId=88851

    [...]

    Calculations from the “2008 Financial Report of the United States Government” also show that the GAAP negative net worth of the federal government has increased to $59.3 trillion while the total federal obligations under GAAP accounting now total $65.5 trillion.

    The $65.5 trillion total federal obligations under GAAP accounting not only now exceed four times the U.S. gross domestic product, or GDP, the $65.5 trillion deficit exceeds total world GDP.

    “In the seven years of GAAP reporting, we have seen an annual average deficit in excess of $4 trillion, which could not be possibly covered by any form of taxation,” Williams argued.

    “Shy of the government severely slashing social welfare programs, federal deficits of this magnitude are beyond any hope of containment, government or otherwise,” he said.

    “Put simply, there is no way the government can possibly pay for the level of social welfare benefits the federal government has promised unless the government simply prints cash and debases the currency, which the government will increasingly be doing this year,” Williams said, explaining in more detail why he feels the government is now in the process of monetizing the federal debt.

    “Social Security and Medicare must be shown as liabilities on the federal balance sheet in the year they accrue according to GAAP accounting,” Williams argues. “To do otherwise is irresponsible, nothing more than an attempt to hide the painful truth from the American public. The public has a right to know just how bad off the federal government budget deficit situation really is, especially since the situation is rapidly spinning out of control.

    “The federal government is bankrupt,” Williams told WND. “In a post-Enron world, if the federal government were a corporation such as General Motors, the president and senior Treasury officers would be in federal penitentiary.”

  • Sassy

    My state has a deficit of about $800 million, but we are going to get about $40 billion, I think!
    Hot damn yes, we are stimulated!
    We can buy gravy for our spam, and relish for the pinto beans!

  • ComradeInConnecticut

    Annie,

    I think it would be more appropriate for Comrade Leader oops Senator (oops … I forgot he didn’t finish his Senate term) Uhhhhbama to sign this bill on a specially-produced episode of Oprah filmed live at Red Square.

    Funny to think how Russia’s form of capitalism will end up looking more and more appealing.

  • ComradeInConnecticut

    Comrade Mirth,

    We will use the $4.2 earmarked for “neighborhood stabilization activities” to recruit additional members of ACORN to sigh up fictitious dead voters, or non-English-speaking illegal aliens. These new voters will assure our Dear Leader’s election to a third and fourth term. The two-term limit will cease to exist under our Dear Leader’s first term, as He has already decided the Constitution will no longer provide the basic framework of our government.

    The $1.2 billion for “Youth Activities” is what will be spent for the “Brownshirts” you refer to. These will be the “Obama Youth”, who will rove from neighborhood to neighborhood to assure you have the new swastika – that “Pepsi ‘O’” – proudly displayed from your front porches.

    Heil Obama!

  • C.S.

    The Obama hype reminds me of this song from “Damn Yankees”

    Whatever Lola wants, Lola gets
    And little man, little Lola wants you
    Make up your mind to have
    No regrets
    Recline yourself
    Resign yourself, you’re through

    I always get, what I aim for
    And your heart and soul
    Is what I came for

    Whatever Lola wants
    Lola gets
    Take off your coat
    Don’t you know you can’t win
    You’re no exception to the rule
    I’m irresistible you fool     .. give in

    Just insert Obama and you have his whole administration plan. Whatever Obama wants, Obama gets so just give in.

  • oowawa

    I will work harder! Only problem is, I worked harder all my life and now I’m retired. How much dog-poop can I clean up before they take away my social security?

  • Margaret

    Uppity what a great article, thanks.
    Reading all those lists made me feel ill. I’m watching the destruction of our economy, soon to be followed by our way of life, and I’m watching people cheer about it. People who hated Bush, are cheering for the democratic version of Bush. They are blind, and their blindness frightens me. How will we ever take our country back? Do these people even want their country back, or do they just want an American Idol to fawn over? Will they still be fainting over Obama when they’ve lost everything, thanking him for their hunger and homelessness, grateful to suffer for His Ascendancy?

    I miss America, the one we could be proud of. More than anything, I miss Hillary.

  • oowawa

    Uncle Rahm’s Military Camp.

    Oh cool. I like it. It’ll be macho, but classy. Lotsa swearing, but the uniforms will be ballet-tights, codpieces, and/or tutus. Calisthenics? Think of Mao’s ballet productions, with the Obama logo and noble visage in place of the Red Flag and Mao’s face.

  • oowawa

    I’m only surprised that he’s not doing the signing at the replica of Lincoln’s log cabin.

    Annie, you’re on the right track, but you’re not thinking large enough. The replica of Lincoln’s log cabin is air-lifted to Pearl Harbor, Hawaii, where it is dropped on the deck of the USS Missouri. The signing occurs later in front of this cabin, where a large “Mission Accomplished” banner has been placed. The actual signing is done with the quill that Lincoln used to pen the Gettysburg Address, while hula girls perform in the background and squadrons of jets flyover in the new O formation.

  • oowawa

    Obama is celebrating this MAJOR win.

    It will come to be known as an “Obamic Victory.” The term “Pyrrhic Victory” will be retired.

  • Ferd Berfle

    With a chorus of thousands of obamabots singing a soprano version of “We Are the Ones We’ve Been Waiting For”.

  • oowawa

    I like it, Ferd. But where are we going to find room for the cast of Mamma Mia, along with Bruce Springsteen, doing “We Are the Champions” while hundreds of trained dolphins, with O-logos painted on their sides, jump in the harbor under the gargantuan fireworks display?

  • beachnan

    Give me a break-trickle down economics didn’t trickle down, and helped to give us a bigger deficit. I don’t want another Regan, thank you very much.

  • lorac

    That’s true. The people were in bread lines, but the ruling class was very well off. I saw it first hand in the late 70s.

  • ford

    Uppity…what is with the numerology??? The bill is voted through on Friday the 13th, and the payout is 13 dollars a person.
    Is this some kind of grandstanding???
    Doesn’t anyone even remember why there is no 13th floor???
    Talk about flipping off karma…

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  • Jingles

    Supporters have praised President Obama’s health care reform bill as a historic landmark in our nation’s history — and so it is, but not for the reasons that many of them claim.
    The concept itself is not the problem. In fact, it is even commendable. Providing affordable health care to an entire nation is a noble goal, and that is basically what the bill is trying to achieve. But before we jump onto the bandwagon of reform, perhaps we should take a closer look at how the bill will affect the nation.
    As we are well aware, the United States is currently in an economic slump coupled with trillions of dollars of national debt. Now in this situation, why would the government want to raise taxes and require states to increase the funding of health care? Yet according to the Washington Times, the recently passed bill will “raise taxes over the next 10 years by more than a half-trillion dollars.” Many of these tax dollars will come from new Medicare levies, and many of them from our own pockets.
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  • Shahid

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