Can someone explain how these items will stimulate the economy?
$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities” (to include 1.5 million to reduce prostitution in Dayton Ohio
$650 million for digital-TV converter boxes
$90 million to educate people about the need for converter boxes
$4.8 million polar bear exhibit at the Providence, RI zoo
$1.5 million water ride in Miami, FL.
$20 million minor league baseball museum in Durham, North Carolina; $6.1 million for corporate jet hangars at the Fayetteville, Arkansas, airport;
$20 million for renovations at the Philadelphia Zoo;
$150 million for the Smithsonian
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
$450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
$600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
$1 billion for the Census Bureau
726 million for an after school snack program
52 billion for demonstrations on sucking CO2 out of air and pumping it underground
these are just SOME of the items on the "stimulus" package that have little or nothing to do with the economy!!
I guess a few of them might put some construction workers to work but lets face it that will do more for mexico's economy than it will for ours, since most of the construction sites I see are mostly filled with "undocumented workers"
Beren I do not hate women, kids, or technology I just do not see how these items stimulate the economy, some of them are worthy issues but they should be seperate legislation not packaged into stimulus!!