We've commented on much of this already, but here is the Congressional Radical Anti-America Pork (CRAAP) in a nutshell.
And it stinks. It stinks like a pig. It sticks like a pig stuck in a "fish barrier".
From National Review (comments by us):
VARIOUS LEFT-WINGERY:
1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
Gimme a break. It's Payback.
2. $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
This is Congress-speak for socialized medicine/national healthcare; not to mention the abortion debate. Choice comes prior to conception people!
3. $300 million for grants to combat violence against women
Not a bad program, everyone is against violence in any form, but not "stimulus"!
4. $2 billion for federal child care block grants
The Federal Government should not be in the business of child care.
5. $6 billion for university building projects
Don't they have billions and billions of dollars in endowments for this stuff?
6. $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
Again, no one is against student loans, but not "timely, targeted, and temporary" stimulus.
Hitler youth. 'Nuff said.
8. $1 billion for community development block grants
Stimulus for buying votes; nothing for economy or job creation.
9. $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
ACORN. 'Nuff said.
10. $650 million for digital TV coupons, including $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
POORLY DESIGNED TAX RELIEF:
11. $15 billion for business-loss carry-backs
12. $145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits
Not sure what this is, but it sounds like Socialisam
13. $83 billion for the earned income credit
DEFINITELY more welfare.
STIMULUS FOR THE GOVERNMENT:
14. $150 million for the Smithsonian
Again, cute and nice, but not stimulus.
15. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
Can we get a Commerce Secretary first?
16. $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
aka Socialized Medicine/National Health Care
17. $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
Department of Agriculture? Is that important?
18. $350 million for Agriculture Department computers
Why the departmental-ism? What about the Interior?
19. $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building next year
What?
20. $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
Can't argue with the cause, but $Half a $Billion?
21. $600 million to convert federal auto fleet to hybrids
Appeasement to the radical, leftist, "green", environmental, hypocritical liars.
22. $450 million for National Aeronautics and Space Administration
Didn't Obama say he wants to curb NASA spending? Oh, right this is the "climate change" aspect of NASA.
23. $600 million for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
More bogus Al Gore funding.
24. $1 billion for the Census Bureau
This one is big. This is the one that wants to ensure "accurate census counts of minorities".
Our translation: Let's make sure we know where all the blacks and hispanics and illegal immigrants live so we can get ACORN to register them to VOTE FOR SOCIALISM "CHANGE".
INCOME TRANSFERS:
25. $89 billion for Medicaid
Socialized Medicine/National Healthcare.
26. $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
Socialized Medicen/National Healthcare.
27. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
The more we make them reliant on the government, the more socialist, communist, and totalitarian we get and that's exactly what we want. Let the people shirk all personal responsibility and become beholden to the socialist government and we will rule them for decades. Just saying.
28. $20 billion for food stamps
The more we make them reliant on the government, the more socialist, communist, and totalitarian we get and that's exactly what we want. Let the people shirk all personal responsibility and become beholden to the socialist government and we will rule them for decades. Just saying.
PURE PORK:
29. $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
Whatever.
Complete and utter business failure. Never has made money, never will. Privatize the rails, and maybe we have a chance.
31. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
Radical environmentalist payback.
32. $1.7 billion for the National Park System
Radical environmentalist payback.
33. $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
???
34. $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
Convert the Bible Belt into government-dependant Liberals through ACORN-like "community organizer" Totalitarian rhetoric.
35. $150 million for agricultural commodity purchases
Again with the agriculture mumbo jumbo. More vote buying!
36. $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”
More CRAAP!
RENEWABLE WASTE:
37. $2 billion for renewable energy research
Radical Environmentalist appeasement...yawn.
38. $2 billion for a “clean-coal” power plant in Illinois
Obama want to destroy the "clean-coal" industry!
39. $6.2 billion shall be for the Weatherization Assistance Program
Uh....what?
40. $3.5 billion shall be for energy efficiency and conservation block grants
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
41. $3.4 billion shall be for the State Energy Program
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
42. $200 million shall be for state and local electric-transport projects
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
43. $300 million shall be for energy-efficient appliance rebate programs
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
44. $400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
45. $1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries
Should this not be up to the battery manufacturers? Their respsonsibility? Private companies and private enterprise produce better products at a cheaper price than government ever has.
46. $1.5 billion for green technology loan guarantees
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
47. $8 billion for innovative technology loan guarantee program
48. $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
49. $4.5 billion for electricity grid
Payback for the "climate change" industry.
REWARDING STATE IRRESPONSIBILITY:
50. $79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
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