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    • Posted February 13, 2009 by
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    Stimulus thoughts: What you'd fix first

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    Pelosi Gets $30 Million "Stimulus" to save a RAT?? haha

    By LisaInTX  |  Posted February 13, 2009  |  Texas
     
    Are you sitting there wondering what exactly where your tax money is going for stimulus? How do you feel about a Cool $30 MILLION to save the Salt Marsh Mouse? Because the mouse is getting some. According to the Washington Times, the San Francisco Bay Area (Nancy Pelosi's district) is getting thirty million dollars for wetlands restoration. It is a cause she has been behind since the 90's, and this stimulus package will give her her wish. (for the record Pelosi says she wasn't involved in the current initiative.)

    RELEASE: KINGSTON VOTES AGAINST TRILLION-DOLLAR BAIT AND SWITCH

    February 13th, 2009 by Milipundit Congressman Jack Kingston (R/GA-1) today voted against the trillion dollar spending package crafted in closed-door negotiations that would do little to stimulate the economy and could, according to the non-partisan Congressional Budget Office, hurt the long-term economic growth of the United States. "This bill is a trillion dollar bait-and-switch," Congressman Kingston said. "President Obama campaigned on tax relief and infrastructure investment in 'shovel-ready' projects. America bought in to that plan, I bought in to that plan but when Speaker Pelosi and Harry Reid got their hands on this package the tax cuts amount to twenty cents per hour for the average worker and only seven percent goes to shovel-ready projects. With folks getting laid off and having their homes foreclosed on, this 'stimulus' package is a slap in the face to working Americans." The final package, which came after the House and Senate passed vastly different bills, is totaled at $789 billion. With the interest which must be paid on the debt created by the bill, however, will bring the total cost to more than $1 trillion. Among the more egregious provisions included in the package are $30 million to save a marsh rat in the district of Speaker Nancy Pelosi and $8 billion for a high-speed railway for Las Vegas, a city in the home state of Senate Leader Harry Reid. Those, and other provisions, lead Congressman Kingston and many others to question whether congressional leaders abided by President Obama's declaration that the package would be free of earmarks. Despite a unanimous House vote earlier in the week, House Democrats violated a provision that would require the bill be made public for at least forty-eight hours before a vote on the House floor. The bill was posted just before midnight which left legislators with just over twelve hours to review the package. That led to scrambling in many offices, like Congressman Kingston's to determine what provisions made it to the final package. During House consideration, the Appropriations Committee unanimously approved a provision offered by Congressman Kingston to ensure any jobs created by the package go to legal American workers. That provision, however, was stripped from the final bill leading Congressman Kingston questioning just who the bill was supposed to help. "Americans are being laid off, Americans are losing their homes and eventually Americans will be forced to pay back this trillion dollars in deficit spending. Should we be able to guarantee that Americans will get the jobs created by it? I know this bill was negotiated behind closed doors but I thought at least one of those negotiators would be willing to fight for legal American workers," Congressman Kingston said. Report Source http://kingston.house.gov/blog/?p=1034 Kingston speech in The House http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PxjjGOUvvew http://casone.blogs.foxbusiness.com/2009/02/12/taxpayer-money-and-the-salt-marsh-mouse/

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