they told me there would be no maths in this administration!
Feeling stimulated yet?
63 million voted for ∏eh ∅ne
57 million voted for the Old Maverick
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102 million total, which leaves
183 million nonvoters—who still get to pay for this:
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$2 billion for federal child-care block grants
$6 billion for university building projects
$15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships
$4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion for “youths” up to the age of 24
$1 billion for community-development block grants
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”
$650 million for digital-TV coupons;
$90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”
But wait! There’s mooooore.....
Page 46/47—$1,500,000,000 for NASA
Page 47—$1,200,000,000 for NSF
Page 61—$2,000,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers projects
Page 68—$1,400,000,000 for Colorado river dam fund
Page 70—$14,398,000,000 for DOE for “ENERGY EFFICIENCY AND RENEWABLE ENERGY”
Page 75—$50,000,000,000 for innovative technology loan guarantees
Page 77—$1,000,000,000 for nuclear weapons
[wait - I thought ∏eh ∅ne was gonna unilaterally disarm US?!?]
Page 80—$3,250,000,000 in loans to Western Area Power Authority
Page 84—“get out of debt free” loan forgiveness is given to WAPA for loans
Page 93—$6,000,000,000 for GSA to convert GSA buildings to “green” buildings
Page 95—The $600M for hybrid vehicles everyone has already heard about.
Allow me to highlight this little nugget: $2,000,000,000 for Army Corps of Engineers projects
The Army Corps of Engineers: those are the fellas who are, thanks to the “Clean Water Act of 2007,” are in charge of every freakin’ drop of water in the US of A. Even that gopher hole that only runs during a downpour—yep. That, too.
Thanks to the removal of one word: “navagable.”
So if you’re doing something they don’t like—your life will become ... a tad more complex.
Claire, Ideologically Stubborn Heatist Ruralite 02/06 at 08:14 AM •
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