Congressional spending plan just released
Huzzah! We're saved! The Democrat-controlled House Appropriations Committee has just released its $825 billion spending plan! Now we can get on with saving the nation from the Wall Street crisis and the Next Great Depression and ... uh, wait a minute ...
Oops ... my bad. For a second there I thought the leftists crafted something fiscally responsible. Jeez, what was I thinking? In fact, it's just more of the same old oink: wealth redistribution, pie-in-the-sky energy schemes, and of course plenty of pork for the man-made global warming scam. Here it is in all its glory but if you're not into propaganda, I've listed just a few of the highlights below -- and please note how nebulously-worded these gems are:
- $6 billion to weatherize modest income homes;
- $6 billion to provide internet in underserved areas;
- $6 billion for higher education modernization;
- $20 billion in health information technology to prevent medial mistakes;
- $20 billion to increase food stamp funding;
- $87 billion to provide a temporary increase in Medicaid funding;
- $300 million to provide rebates for people who purchase Energy Star products;
- $600 million for the federal government to buy brand new energy efficient cars;
- $400 million for state and local governments to buy brand new energy efficient cars;
- $2.4 billion for carbon capture demonstration programs;
- $350 million to research using energy efficient technology on military bases;
- $300 million for grants and loans to state and local governments for projects that reduce diesel emissions, benefiting public health and reducing global warming;
- $500 million for energy efficient manufacturing demonstration projects;
- $400 million to build major research facilities that perform cutting edge science;
- $1.5 billion for expanding good jobs in biomedical research;
- $400 million to put more scientists to work doing climate change research;
- $600 million for satellite development and acquisitions, including climate sensors and climate modeling;
- $250 million to address long-term economic distress in urban industrial cores and rural areas distributed based on need and ability to create jobs and attract private investment;
- $650 million to continue the coupon program to enable American households to convert from analog television transmission to digital transmission;
- $300 million for the National Wildlife Refuges and National Fish Hatcheries;
- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts;
- $400 million for ready-to-go habitat restoration projects;
- $2 billion to provide child care services for an additional 300,000 children in low-income families while their parents go to work;
- $120 million to provide subsidized community service jobs to an additional 24,000 low-income older Americans;
- $1.5 billion to help local communities build and rehabilitate low-income housing using green technologies;
- $500 million to rehabilitate and improve energy efficiency at some of the over 42,000 housing units maintained by Native American housing programs;
- $10 million for rural, high-need areas to undertake projects using sustainable and energy-efficient building and rehabilitation practices.
These wankers just don't get it (although, devious as they are, they may indeed know exactly what they're doing). They will never stimulate the economy by more out-of-control government pork spending and increasing the nation's already unimaginable debt burden -- this folly failed under FDR's watch and it will fail now. Fortunately for the United States, FDR had a planet-wide war to finally bail him out after 11 years of gross mismanagement.
It's going to be a very long four years.