03 February 2009

grrrr

the democrats should just quit trying to get along with these people if this is what they are arguing about while millions of people are losing their jobs----they were all about almost as much being dumped into the banks with nary a question asked or oversight proposed----let go of all of it, and you lose maybe 2%

(CNN) -- On Monday, Congressional Republican leaders put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly $900 billion stimulus bill that is being debated:

talking to republicans is the real waste:

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

WTF?

• $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.

• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

tomitron said...

that misses the point----at this point the main thing is to spend money and, minus the homeland security stuff, it's not totally worthless---