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"

2009-02-12T14:42:20Z

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!!

ATJ2009-02-12T14:40:07Z

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Obama wanted these programs to pay back for his votes. He knew he could not pass these later so this is why he needed to pass the stimulus quickly. As we all know when things sit around a long time they begin to stink. This why he put fear in the ignorant 5% of this stimulus goes for infrastructure amazing!!!!!

Anonymous2009-02-12T14:47:34Z

$300 million for grants to combat violence against women
This will hire people to start programs to help women

$4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities” (to include 1.5mil
This will hire police officers and probation officers etc.

$650 million for digital-TV converter boxes
This will help people so they can buy more widgets not inconveniences

$90 million to educate people about the need for converter boxes
This will hire people to educate people

$4.8 million polar bear exhibit at the Providence, RI zoo
This will hire people for the exhibit

$1.5 million water ride in Miami, FL.
This will hire people to run the park
.
$20 million minor league baseball museum in Durham, North Carolina;
This will hire people to run museum
.
$20 million for renovations at the Philadelphia Zoo;
This will hire people to fix zoo
.
$150 million for the Smithsonian
This will hire people if they expand
.
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
This will hire people to renovate
.
$500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health fa
This will hire people to make the improvements
.
$44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
This will hire people to repair
.
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers
This will hire people to install and sell computer system
.
$88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
This will hire people to help move
.
$448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department
This will hire people to build it.
.
$600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
This will hire people do convert
.
ETC.
And how does it stimulate our Republican economy? These people that get hired buy stuff. This is not rocket science.

Bob F2009-02-12T14:37:15Z

In a perfect world we would have cut that much from our current budget, to stimulate the economy. Unfortunately the Obama stimulus scam is going to remove about 30% of our disposable income. The economy will contract. The Dems. seem to want a Roosevelt type socialist Depression.

scuddog2009-02-12T14:40:11Z

It seems to me that people will be needed to be employed to enact all of these programs. That means that they will have money in their pockets to spend which will help other sectors of the economy. You mean to tell me that you don't see the correlation of buying hybrid vehicles and the economy? Or constructing buildings? How do you think the economy is going to get better?

Who Else?2009-02-12T14:47:34Z

Okay, here's how it works: griping about the stimulus package will give stress-related illnesses to thousands of irate conservatives. As a direct result, some of them will die. Then decent, industrious American workers will get their jobs. By decreasing the labor pool, we'll reduce unemployment.

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