PORKULUS BILL REVEALED: conference notes »
Posted By pc25 9 months, 3 weeks ago in NewsMichelle has the link to the notes from the Porkulus conference, and well … it’s about as bad as you’d imagine. I’m picking through the tables derived from the 1500-page bill that no one in Congress will read before casting their votes for the largest project bill in American history. To no one’s great surprise, the spending items expose Porkulus for exactly what it is — an omnibus spending bill that could have easily gone through the normal budgeting process.
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pc259 months, 3 weeks ago
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The 1,434-page stimulus conference report. Oink! Oink!
Caution..........read only after ingesting copious amounts of Dramamine.-
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RedRiverJ9 months, 3 weeks ago
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This was a huge very confusing bill, full of pork, IMO to hide the real agenda of the White House and the Democrats.
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Such as one new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, will monitor treatments to make sure your doctor is doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective. The goal is to reduce costs and “guide” your doctor’s decisions (442, 446). These provisions in the stimulus bill are virtually identical to what Daschle prescribed in his 2008 book, “Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.” According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.” …
So the little rat Daschle may not have gotten the appointment but you can bet your lack of health care he will influence this new National Coordinator of Health Information Technology.
Yah vol commandant
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pc259 months, 3 weeks ago
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FTA
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* $550 million for a federal fleet of plug-in hybrid electric vehicles
* $300 million for even more plug-in or “efficient” vehicles
* $300 million for “smart appliances”
* $13.9 billion for the Clean Energy Finance Authority (a lending mechanism for green energy projects)
* $8 billion for “high-speed rail grants” to states, which apparently includes Reid’s Vegas project
* $21.44 billion for “environmental” issues, none of which appears to have job creation in mind, including:
* Lead Paint Abatement ($100 million)
* EPA State revolving funds ($6 billion)
* USDA water loans and grants ($1.38 billion)
* DOE environmental management ($6 billion)
* $15 billion to “increase and protect affordable housing“
* $7.2 billion for expanding broadband coverage
* $15 billion for new Pell Grant funding
* $44 billion for education block grants
* $4.6 billion for “early childhood” programs
* $1.1 billion for “comparative effectiveness research” -
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Pecossam9 months, 3 weeks ago
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"Haste makes Waste." America just HAS to have this bill to "save" us? Say what?! We need to be SAVED from this Congress. Who in the heck let these MENTAL children in the candy store with OUR PIGGYBANK?
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And is there anyone out there who would buy President Obama some Viagra or its generic equivalent so he can be 'STIMULATED" without selling the farm?!
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nostalgia9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Regarding the stimulus bill - 48 Hour Review Period After Conference
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From yesterday's Congressional Record, Page H1096:
Mr. LEWIS of California moves to instruct the managers on the part of the House that they shall not record their approval of the final conference agreement (as such term is used in clause 12(a)(4) of rule XXII of the Rules of the House of Representatives) unless the text of such agreement has been available to the managers in an electronic, searchable, and downloadable form for at least 48 hours prior to the time described in such clause.
This instruction passed unanimously in a recorded vote.
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cushi9 months, 3 weeks ago
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PATHETIC COMMENTS AND SHAMEFUL PARTISAN POLITICS ON YOUR PART. WHAT YOU ARE TRYING TO DO IS NOT ONLY UNDERMINING THE PRESIDENT, IT'S UNDERMINING THE ENTIRE COUNTRY. I HOPE EVERY REPUBLICAN LEFT IN CONGRESS IS VOTED OUT WHEN THE OPPORTUNITY PRESENTS ITSELF. YOU DESERVE IT.
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JohnGault9 months, 3 weeks ago
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No it could be said your trying to undermine my children country. We are going to put into debt 1 trillions dollars on top of what we have already spent. Believe me when I tell you that this is not the end of the spending. This does not even give you pause! Why does this have to be passed today when a bulk of the spending won't even occur this year! I'm all for spending but in a series of events and one that will bring real jobs.. not just summer jobs (ie construction). I would love to see the elimination of capital gains taxes on Alternative energy manufacturing and development. I would like see a plan that is focused and one that will have a way that we can track its progress and measure its results. If at the end of this, we can say we are energy independent, then I will say it was worth it. We have an opportunity, to remake and re brand "made in the USA" not just a country that consumes things, but one that builds them as well.
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nostalgia9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Well Cushi
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When the Democrats make promises then break them, your silence is very telling
Are you EVER going to hold a Democrat responsible??
“Every member of Congress -- Republicans and Democrats -- voted to post this bill on the internet for 48 hours, 48 hours ago"
CNN - 58 minutes ago
By Jeanne Sahadi, CNNMoney.com senior writer NEW YORK (CNNMoney.com) -- There's still no official legislative text yet
58 minutes ago and still no text of the bill posted!
itbusiness.ca:
Newly elected U.S. President Barack Obama has repeatedly promised to post legislation to the Web before he signs off on it. But he may have failed to do that with the first item passed into law.
Let me know WHEN you are willing to condemn Democrats for breaking promises. Maybe then I can take you seriously
You might want to bookmark this site and follow just how many of Obama's campaign promises he keeps
PolitiFact has compiled more than 500 promises that Barack Obama made during the campaign and is tracking their progress on our Obameter.
http://www.politifact.com/truth-o-meter/promises/
No. 32: Create a tax credit of $500 for workers
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BB649 months, 3 weeks ago
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cushi,
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You did that for the last 8 years and most of it was done while were at war. During Roosevelt's time, you would have been charged, tried and convicted of treason. But President Bush didn't go after you because you were hiding behind the first amendment. Get used to that from us. We're using your play book. When we disagree with you, we will make it very clear. For those of our party crossing lines and trying to play along, we will remember.
We have a real problem with this package. Besides it being way to big for the problems we face today. When over 88% of the proposed bill going for pork it's not a stimulus it's pork. This will change our nation for the worse.
Why is it for the last 40 years we've spent billions trying to raise of the under achievers? All we've managed to do is lower our own standards of what success actually is. This stimulus is an excellent example. -
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nostalgia9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Looks like Obama still thinks he can say anything he pleases even if it isn't true and everyone is supposed to believe him
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D'oh! Caterpillar CEO Contradicts President on Whether Stimulus Will Allow Him to Re-Hire Laid Off Workers
President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., "said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off."
Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.
But after the president left the event, Owens said the exact opposite.
Asked if the stimulus package would be able to stop the 22,000 layoffs or not, Owens said, "I think realistically no. The truth is we're going to have more layoffs before we start hiring again"
"It is going to take some time before that stimulus bill" means re-hiring, he said.
http://blogs.abcnews.com/politicalpunch/2009/02/do...
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Wolfie20079 months, 3 weeks ago
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I'm puzzled and scratching my head over what plans Obama has to put the employees of the RV factory in Indiana back to work. Well, I guess he could have the government buy RV's and park them on the streets of major cities for homeless people to use. The price tag for these RV's start at 79K and go up to hundreds of thousands of dollars, but of course, the government would pay much more that the rest of us would, they always do.
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GLee9 months, 3 weeks ago
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UNBELIEVABLE!
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This is our 'new' goverment at work?
INCREDIBLE that a bill like this should even 'grace' Mr. Obama's desk. He should send it back with a message that this bill is to 'jump start' the economy. Congress has really missed the mark with this one and if Obama signs it....... well, his true 'colors' will then be visible to all. -
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HOUSEMD9 months, 3 weeks ago
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over a thousand pages and NO one that voted for it has read it. of course it was realeased last night at 11:00 p.m..
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Another night of starbucks expresso and reading? nah, hell we pass bills without reading them all time why start now? -
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icono19 months, 3 weeks ago
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No one read the whole bill but they are sure the important points will be out in a Cliff Notes edition soon and for the really hot topics of the bill, word of mouth works better.
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Hummm.......
Govt by Cliff Notes....
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rimbaud9 months, 3 weeks ago
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Republicans love grandstanding when they know the bill will pass, anyway. If there were any danger that a stimulus bill might not pass, you would not see such grandiose opposition to it! They WANT it to pass, but they also want to on record as opposing it: they are the new white meat.
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