Is this what you call change?

[redcliffsw]

Funny but true........

http://www.creativeminorityreport.com/2009/01/is-this-what-you-call-change.html

[Teresa]

That is good..

real good.. 

[Teresa]

Change.........................................

[Teresa]

From Rich Wiederhold ...

Today, President Obama wrote in an op-Ed piece in the Washington Post that if Congress
does not pass his "stimulus" package, and do so right away, "Our nation will slip deeper into a crisis that,
at some point, we may not be able to reverse." "Wow," I thought when I read this,
"The stimulus bill must contain some really important stuff if it's critical to the survival of our country!
I better take a closer look. Maybe the guy is really onto something."
So, I did some internet research and here is just some of the massive spending proposed in the bill:

-- $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

-- $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

-- $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 the ice caps melting because of 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 - "Where do I apply for one of those paid volunteer
positions?" Are we really to believe President Obama that we may not be able to reverse
our country's slide if he and Congress are prevented from ramming all this pork down our throats?
And, by the way, what happened to President Obama's pledge to end pork barrel spending?

Another interesting tidbit:
President 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 and gas leases on 77
parcels of federal land.
For me this stinks!!! Energy Independence my Ass!!!

We are only a few weeks into this guy's term and already he and his party are out of control,
spending our tax dollars like "drunken sailors on an overnite liberty in Olongapo."
You can bet we're gonna get screwed...
So what else is new?
Great version of CHANGE, huh???

[sixdogsmom]

I think a paid volunteer is like the current federal program that our own Elk county schools have. The paid volunteer grandfparent program pays $2.00 per hour for one on one tutors for at risk children. They also get their noon meal and paid holidays like everybody else. It's just the rate is very low. I guess it is or isn't a good program depending on how you look at it. It does give extra money to retired people and extra help to students, many of whom do not have anyone to hear them read or do sums.