Monday, January 26, 2009

WHAT THE THIEVES ARE DOING WITH OUR MONEY

From John Boehner's website come the top 20 facts about the spending bill. Some highlights:

...more than a third of this plan’s spending provisions are dedicated to creating new government programs.

Even though the legislation contains at least 152 separate spending proposals, the authors of the plan can only say that 34 have any chance at keeping or growing jobs.

Almost one-third of the so-called “tax relief” in the House Democrats’ bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package – not the 40 percent that President Obama had requested.


They continue to call payments to those not paying taxes "tax cuts" instead of what it is, "welfare."

Some things you're buying:

· $650 million for digital TV coupons.

· $600 million for new cars for the federal government.

· $6 billion for colleges/universities – many which have billion dollar endowments.

· $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.

· $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.

· $200 million for the National Mall, including $21 million for sod.

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