Here's What $800 Billion Buys Today

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Please take a look at how the 'stimulus' money is to be spent.

How does this stimulate the economy? How does this help people who have lost jobs? How does this help people buy groceries, pay their utilities, buy gas, pay rent or mortgages?

In order to "change" government we need to be involved at the local level first. Please join with others in your area to bring about "change".

Here's one example on the bill and I am assuming it is still there:

$800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities! *New Housing Development, Yippee!


Here's What $800 Billion Buys Today
Veronique de Rugy | February 13, 2009

"The final stimulus package is the final insult to taxpayers."

Veronique de Rugy is a columnist at Reason magazine and an economist at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University.

Full article and partial list here: http://www.reason.com/news/show/131694.html

Excerpt:

It's a terrible bill, in other words, both on its face and in the details. For the reasons I detailed here, it won't stimulate the economy. It violates many of President Obama's promises. Most of the deals that created it were made behind closed doors, meaning that there is virtually zero transparency and no real way to track where, how, or why money is being spent. On top of that, the bill is still packed with items that any vaguely impartial observer would call pork.

*personal note