Hey big spender

Read it and weep folks.

God Help America and future Generations that will pay this "STICKITTOTHEM" Bill.

A partial list of things, as Obama said, "our economy desperately needs."

-- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
-- $380 million for the Women, Infants & Children welfare program
-- $300 million in grants to combat violence against women
-- $1.2 billion to provide "youth" with summer jobs
-- $2.4 billion for "neighborhood stabilization" activities (a.k.a. ACORN)
-- $650 million for digital TV coupons
-- $150 million for the Smithsonian
-- $34 million to renovate the Dept. of Commerce headquarters
-- $500 million for improvements to the National Institute of Health facility
-- $44 million for repairs to the Dept. of Agriculture's headquarters
-- $350 million for agriculture department computers
-- $88 million to move (that's right, move) the Public Health Service into a new building.
-- $1 billion for the Census Bureau
-- $300 million for wetlands preservation in San Francisco (Piggy Pelosi's frogs)
-- $89 billion for Medicaid
-- $30 billion for COBRA extensions
-- $36 billion for expanded unemployment
-- $20 billion for food stamps
-- $850 million for Amtrak
-- $87 million for a "polar ice breaking ship" (What about ice caps melting due to global warming?)
-- $1.7 million for the National Park Service
-- $55 million for the Historic Preservation Fund
-- $7.6 million for the Rural Advancement Program
-- $150 million for "agricultural commodity purchases"
-- $150 million for producers of livestock, farm-raised fish and honey bees
-- $160 million for paid volunteers (what is a "paid volunteer"?) at the Corporation for National and Community Service

Mind you, this is only a partial list of what I've been able to find. But the above totals $184.4 BILLION that has ZIP, ZERO, NADA to do with the economy. And that's not even one-quarter of the bill!

Are we really to believe Obama that we would not have been able to reverse our country's slide if he and Congress were prevented from ramming all this pork down our throats?

And, by the way, what happened to Obama's pledge to end pork barrel spending? In fact, at his "press conference" he bristled when asked about pork, saying there's none in this bill.

Also, what happened to his promise for "more transparent government" and the pledge that NO bill would be voted on in Congress until the public had FIVE DAYS to view it in its entirety? This bill did not even have FIVE HOURS in the public eye.

Another interesting fact: Obama said that one of the reasons Congress must pass the stimulus bill and must pass it NOW, is to end our dependence on foreign oil. What is astonishing is that he made this proclamation about energy independence less than 24 hours after his new interior secretary canceled the oil & gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land.

We are only three weeks into this guy's term and already he and his party are out of control.

(Imported from Feb. 16, 2009)