List of what got cut from the stimulus bill

[SithSolo1]

Sorry if this is a repost.

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITI...imulus.cuts/index.html

Now I don't know if the stimulus bill was the right place for all of items on the list but many of them seemed useful in my eyes. Granted I don't follow politics or the news as much as I should.

 

[CalvinHobbes]

I guess they just left in bailout money for the very rich

 

[fallout man]

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

HAHAHA.

Republicans HATE kids, unless they can crawl under the covers with them.

 

[RichardE]

Meh, the bailout was never suppose to be for the common man. Didn't you know that already?

 

[IronWing]

Any list of what's in it?

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: fallout man

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

HAHAHA.

Republicans HATE kids, unless they can crawl under the covers with them.

That 16 billion for school construction would have created a lot of jobs.

 

[miketheidiot]

Originally posted by: fallout man

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

HAHAHA.

Republicans HATE kids, unless they can crawl under the covers with them.

lol

that a cheapshot right there

 

[miketheidiot]

alot of that looks like pretty solid spending ideas imo.


i bet all the horseshit stayed in though

 

[StageLeft]

Originally posted by: miketheidiot

Originally posted by: fallout man

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

HAHAHA.

Republicans HATE kids, unless they can crawl under the covers with them.

lol

that a cheapshot right there

It was funny tho!

 

[Xellos2099]

We already spend more money in school than the rest of the world already. More money spend doesn't equal to better education.

 

[Acanthus]

$3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

repubs nuke jobs.

$300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

They had no trouble bailing out the auto companies, but when it comes to giving them work that will benefit the govt in the long run anyway...

$2 billion for broadband

A big fuck you to repubs for that one, cutting jobs and nationwide communications improvements.

$300 million for federal prisons

More jobs lost.

$5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

Preventative medicine will SAVE us billions. This was stupid to oppose.

$2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

The centerpiece of the friggin thing, paperless charts will save lives and improve hospital efficiency while creating jobs.

? $100 million for distance learning

? $98 million for school nutrition

? $50 million for NASA

? $50 million for aeronautics

? $50 million for exploration

? $200 million for National Science Foundation

? $100 million for science

? $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

The republican war on science and education continues. The construction money wouldve directly created jobs.

$1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

Again wtf, this wouldve created jobs and made the housing more efficient (which the government also has to subsidize and indirectly or directly pay for).

Good thing you removed all of the "pork" retards... :|

 

[winnar111]

Why don't we just build another aircraft carrier instead?

 

[Balt]

I don't understand why a lot of the programs just had their funding cut. Either the program is worth funding or it isn't.

Cutting the funding in half means what? It's kinda-sorta good? Or are we just going to do the jobs half-assed so they cost less and don't perform?

 

[IronWing]

Originally posted by: winnar111
Why don't we just build another aircraft carrier instead?

Cause we don't need one and the money wouldn't get spread to enough states.

 

[theeedude]

OK, it looks like the dumbest stuff to cut. Fortunately it also looks like the stuff that will be easiest to get passed in different bills. So really it's just a compromise to make stupid crybaby Republicans feel like the "won" something, while they only delay the inevitable and necessary. That's the general level of intelligence and maturity of your average Republican that they fall for this crap.

 

[Red Dawn]

Originally posted by: winnar111
Why don't we just build another aircraft carrier instead?

And named it the George W Bush? It would be assured to run aground.

 

[quest55720]

Good start on the cuts now just cut out another 200-300 billion more. I am glad the education got cut that money would just go to the teachers union. School funding should be a local not national. Any national money spent would just free up money to give the teachers union more money. We already bailed out the UAW no need to bail out the teachers union who are bankrupting the education system.

$122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

Well global warming should take care of any need for a icebreaker.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: Acanthus

$3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

repubs nuke jobs.

$300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

They had no trouble bailing out the auto companies, but when it comes to giving them work that will benefit the govt in the long run anyway...

$2 billion for broadband

A big fuck you to repubs for that one, cutting jobs and nationwide communications improvements.

$300 million for federal prisons

More jobs lost.

$5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

Preventative medicine will SAVE us billions. This was stupid to oppose.

$2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

The centerpiece of the friggin thing, paperless charts will save lives and improve hospital efficiency while creating jobs.

? $100 million for distance learning

? $98 million for school nutrition

? $50 million for NASA

? $50 million for aeronautics

? $50 million for exploration

? $200 million for National Science Foundation

? $100 million for science

? $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

The republican war on science and education continues. The construction money wouldve directly created jobs.

$1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

Again wtf, this wouldve created jobs and made the housing more efficient (which the government also has to subsidize and indirectly or directly pay for).

Good thing you removed all of the "pork" retards... :|

This list makes me sad. A lot of that is indeed infrastructure, or at the very least a boon to American industry. What ever happened to the Republicans saying that all those unemployed should turn to education to pick up skills for the "jobs of the future"? Well, they don't seem to want to fund any of that either. Say buh-bye to the last of the American technological and scientific edge.

 

[brandonbull]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: winnar111
Why don't we just build another aircraft carrier instead?

And named it the George W Bush? It would be assured to run aground.

I would name it the USS Mission Accomplished and when Georgie was tired of clearing brush he could land a fighter jet on it.

 

[Bitek]

Originally posted by: Red Dawn

Originally posted by: winnar111
Why don't we just build another aircraft carrier instead?

And named it the George W Bush? It would be assured to run aground.

Launch from dock, catch fire, sink in the harbor blocking the shipping lanes, get rebuilt for $1T, then run aground.

Or perhaps leave it as a Coast Guard icebreaker USS G.W.B. and send it to the arctic with enough weaponry to just shoot all the evildoing polar bears.

 

[Bitek]

Does that represent the cuts to the spending proposal, or are those programs cut entirely? Most of that was Obama sig issues, so seems a bit F'd to cut it all out.

 

[bozack]

Partially Cut:


? $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

? $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

? $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

? $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

? $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

? $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

? $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)


Fully Cut

? $55 million for historic preservation

? $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

? $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

? $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

? $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

? $100 million for distance learning

? $98 million for school nutrition

? $50 million for aquaculture

? $2 billion for broadband

? $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

? $50 million for detention trustee

? $25 million for Marshalls Construction

? $300 million for federal prisons

? $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

? $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

? $10 million state and local law enforcement

? $50 million for NASA

? $50 million for aeronautics

? $50 million for exploration

? $50 million for Cross Agency Support

? $200 million for National Science Foundation

? $100 million for science

? $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

? $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

? $89 million General Services Administration operations

? $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

? $200 million Transportation Security Administration

? $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

? $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

? $55 million for historic preservation

? $20 million for working capital fund

? $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

? $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

? $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

? $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

? $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

? $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

? $16 billion for school construction

? $3.5 billion for higher education construction

? $1.25 billion for project based rental

? $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

? $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

? $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

All good cuts imho, the bolded ones I felt were especially good...most of which should be addressed on the state level, not through some federal pork plan. Seems like a decent start..hopefully they can cut more.

 

[bozack]

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
This list makes me sad. A lot of that is indeed infrastructure, or at the very least a boon to American industry. What ever happened to the Republicans saying that all those unemployed should turn to education to pick up skills for the "jobs of the future"? Well, they don't seem to want to fund any of that either. Say buh-bye to the last of the American technological and scientific edge.

Why should the govt be subsidising this?? we have private industry for a reason.

 

[First]

Repubs dying a slow death. I guess this is what a last gasp sounds like. Watch for a new, progressive GOP to rear its head sometime in 2010/12.

 

[MovingTarget]

Originally posted by: bozack

Originally posted by: MovingTarget
This list makes me sad. A lot of that is indeed infrastructure, or at the very least a boon to American industry. What ever happened to the Republicans saying that all those unemployed should turn to education to pick up skills for the "jobs of the future"? Well, they don't seem to want to fund any of that either. Say buh-bye to the last of the American technological and scientific edge.

Why should the govt be subsidising this?? we have private industry for a reason.

Because the government is sometimes better suited to do so itself. Education and Infrastructure are two of those areas. Sure, we do have some private industry involved in both those fields, which is healthy, but they don't receive our taxdollars for a reason. Private industry has really done a bang-up job as of late. We don't just delegate everything to private business as we aren't fascists.