Posted by
Old Retired Fart on Thursday, January 15, 2009 4:59:32 PM
Seems to me that this is exactly what the democrats have done. Let's look at some details.
Aid to education: $120 billion
Increased Medicare Payments: $87 billion
Renewable fuels research: $54 billion
Increased unemployment benefits $43 billion
Health care for the unemployed $39 billion
Increased food stamp benefits $20 billion
Increased Pell Grants $15.6 billion
Aid for hospitals to automate records $20 billion
Now by my math, that is roughly $400 billion of the stimulus package, and I'll be damned if I see where it will create one, single, solitary job. I also don't see any increased demand. (even if I thought that would help, and I don't). Throw in another $275 billion of "tax cuts" that amount to $40 a month per couple and there is $675 billion dollars not doing a thing to help the economy. But our kids and grandkids will have to pay the bill.
This can't happen...write your representatives today and tell the "not no...hell no"