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Your Tax Dollars at Work

By lex, on February 3rd, 2009

Anybody see the overall strategy in these expenditures?

Yeah. Me either.

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February 3rd, 2009 | Tags: , | Category: economy

17 comments to Your Tax Dollars at Work

  • Potosi Joel
    February 3, 2009 at 2:45 pm

    Ice breaker for the USCG?
    Didn’t they get the memo about AGW? There ain’t going to be any ice in the arctic, just dead polar bears bobbing on the surface and Al Gore’s salty tears below.

  • PeterGunn
    February 3, 2009 at 3:35 pm

    The list looks like a combination WISH / HOUSEKEEPING List rather than a Stimulus for the economy.

    Where are the public works projects, infrastructure improvements (outside Washington, DC), new career/job training programs?

    We all know the members of Congress are answerable to “us”, but are they listening? Current polls have 54% of Americans against this bill!

    Hey there, Congressperson… Senator… Listen UP!

  • MaxDamage
    February 3, 2009 at 3:37 pm

    • $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

    Well, we tried sending some of it to Washington DC, but even the folks out there refused to keep it.

    Dang.

    – Max

  • daveg
    February 3, 2009 at 3:51 pm

    $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”

    Which, if successful, would cause revenue shortages due to the loss of the taxes associated with tobacco consumption which would soon require urgent attention from the taxpayer to make up for. Once the ball gets a-rollin’ it just don’t stop.

  • OldT6Flyer
    February 3, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    Memo

    To: Congress of US
    From: Taxpayers
    Subj: Stimulus Bill

    READ OUR COLLECTIVE LIPS

    NFW

    YOUR TRIED THIS SH*T WITH MIDNIGHT BASKETBALL UNDER CLINTON.

    NFW

  • daveg
    February 3, 2009 at 3:53 pm

    “new career/job training programs?”

    I agree. I just had a guy delivering a dryer from HHGregg that caught sight of the numerous airplane pictures hanging around the house. He told me his dream was to be an A&P, but couldn’t afford the community college tuition. If I gotta spend a trillion bucks, I’d rather spend it giving a guy like that a chance.

  • John Carmichael
    February 3, 2009 at 4:56 pm

    Fine… then issue each of us the $2,600 and I’ll apply it toward flight lessons too! Or if you apply the stimulus to only thouse of us who paid taxes, then I’ll be glad to take my $5,795.00

    My small businesses could each benefit.

    -JC

  • Quartermaster
    February 3, 2009 at 5:49 pm

    Lex,

    That’s political payola. Nothing else makes sense. Same stuff, just a different day. Just like Clinton’s “most ethical administration” in history. No hope, and no change.

  • Wilko
    February 3, 2009 at 8:47 pm

    $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings?!
    Who knew paint cost that much.

    Roll out the (pork) barrel…

  • xformed
    February 4, 2009 at 7:21 am

    I heard one commenter on radio say this is Pelosi’s five year journey. She’s been building the list of who to help all this time…just had to get a compliant prez in place to seal the deal.

    And I’m sure “The One” has had a hand in adding some “friends” into the heap.

  • RonF
    February 4, 2009 at 8:03 am

    Creating or repairing sewer systems is the kind of thing this is supposed to be all about. I have no problem with vocational retraining (as long as the school is actually doing the job) as that gets someone in a position to be a net payer of taxes instead of a net consumer of them. Making a building “green” I have no problem with as long as a realistic ROI analysis based on a reduction in energy consumption justifies it.

    The rest of this stuff is social engineering or empire building and it needs to be sh!tcanned.

  • Kris, in New England
    February 4, 2009 at 8:23 am

    $150 million to pay for conversions from analog to digital TV.

    Yeah, that will provide jobs, rebuild the infrastructure and help the economy.

    The only good thing about this Generational Theft Act (h/t to Michelle Malkin for that) is that it’s all on the Democrat’s shoulders. When it fails, it will be clear who ramrodded it thru.

    I only hope when that time comes that the country is paying attention and votes their collective a$$es out.

    I did read somewhere yesterday (I think at Hot Air) that a large group of Democrats in the House are drafting a letter for Botox-Nan, complaining about her bull in a china shop style -only allowing specific individuals to draft legislation then closing the doors to debate.

    One can only hope that the coming revolution will start within her own party.

  • Steve
    February 4, 2009 at 9:06 am

    Strategy? How about “spend as much as we can as fast as we can using money we don’t have to grow government”? Or would that be a tactic?

  • Steve
    February 4, 2009 at 9:08 am

    Kris,
    Every DTV converter box I’ve seen has been made in China (or Indonesia, Vietnam, etc.)
    So I wonder whose economy that $150M is supposed to stimulate?

  • OldT6Flyer
    February 4, 2009 at 9:12 am

    I frankly have a hard time giving people too stupid to know by now that they need a converter box for digital TV the money to buy one.

    Maybe if they didn’t watch it all the time they might not have let whatever brains the good Lord gave them atrophy so much by now. I suspect they don’t need it to watch anything, you know, educational.

    But I suspect they voted (if they could even figure out how) for you know who…..

  • Mike47
    February 4, 2009 at 9:23 am

    Change… change you can believe in!

    BULLSH*T.

  • AWC N
    February 4, 2009 at 11:05 am

    There’s a few WTF’s in there, even though I agree with most. Like – FBI salaries?
    Is that’s what’s wrong with the intel community – it’s been volunteers?
    And yeah, digital TV coupons, you mean they didn’t have this in the previous budget?
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