I tried watching President Obama’s speech to congress on the stimulus bill. However, when he patted himself on the back for passing a stimulus package without any “pork” in it (while maintaing a straight face), and Nancy Pelosi jumped to her feet in standing ovation, I have to admit I threw up in my mouth a little bit. I just couldn’t watch any further.
According to the Heritage Foundation the Stimulus package contains 9,287 pork projects at a cost of nearly $13 billion. Some of these pork projects are:
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$2 billion on child-care subsidies
$2 billion for community organizations (such as ACORN)
$1 billion for Amtrak
$650 million on top what’s already been spent on digital TV conversion coupons
$400 million for global-warming research
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$1.7 million for swine odor and manure management research
$1.2 million for mosquito research
$200 thousand for a tattoo-removal for gang bangers
Etc.
No, none of this is pork.
The Stimulus package should be simply called the Obama debt plan. Besides being the most expensive spending package in history it is also the largest power grab by government in the history of the United Sates.
In order to carry out this massive plan the federal government would need to hire 200,000 new employees, according the Heritage Foundation calculations—as if government wasn’t already too big.
Can anyone tell me how this plan can in any way be defended?
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
1 comment:
Nobody can defend insanity. This fiscal policy is anti-freedom thus antilife. It is pure socialist evil, which begs the question, how do we combat tyranny in the age of non-reason.
Post a Comment