Instead of cutting funds for education & state funding as proposed by the republicans in the latest stimulus?

The republicans only spend money on things that will make them more powerful. Spending money on education is their last concern!

local school districts should tax the local people there where the kids go to school. Depending on the federal government to give them monies is silly.

oldmarine - i know, i read the bill. it gives away billions to those that support the socialist party ideas as along as it lines their pockets. besides those that want socialism won't see it until it is to late. It should address the problem, the housing industry and those that have residential mortgages.

Yeah! Let's give more money to government's monopoly (K-12 Education) so that they may indoctrinate our children rather than give us our own money back and let us use it towards educating our children as we see fit.

It's been said, "The masses are asses."

We spend $480 Billion a Year in Foregin Aide and another $352 Billioin a Year in Funding the World Food Bank, yeah lets cut those and use them at home for our schools.

This Porklus Bill is not the answer (prok and earmarks)

HERE'S WHY THEY'RE CALLING IT PORK......

• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.

• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.

• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.

• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.

• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.

• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."

• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $500 million for state and local fire stations.

• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.

• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.

• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.

• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery

you don't get it. Leave the money in the peoples hands. If the state needs more money they can tax their residents.

The GOP is more loyal to Israel than to America.

both parties have failed you. wake up and smell the 2party corruption.

sheep.