Just to see where your tax payer dollars are going (part of the new "stimulus" package):
$250M for new grass and repairs on the national mall
$50M for the National Endowment for the Arts
$276M for computer systems at the State Department
$87B for Medicaid subsidies
$400M for the Social Security Agency's computer system upgrade
$600M for GSA vehicle replacements with alternative fuel cars
$44M for Agriculture Dept Headquarters repairs
$1.8B to repair National Forest Dept. Vehicles and facilities.
$360M for child care facilities on Military Bases.
$276M to upgrade facilities at the State Department
$500M for bomb detectors at airports
$2.5B to upgrade low income housing projects
$400M for climate change research
$6.7B for energy efficient Federal facilities rehab
$20B for food stamps
$17B for Pell and Federal Student Grants
$38B for increased unemployment benefits
$13B for health insurance for unemployed workers
$20B for medicare and medicaid IT systems
$75 million for smoking cessation.
$335 million for STD prevention.
$200 million for Dep. of Defense to acquire alternative energy vehicles.
$1.5 billion (with a xxx8220;Bxxx8221;) for a xxx8220;carbon-capturing contestxxx8221;
$200 million for DoD plug-in car stations
$400 million for HIV and chlamydia testing.
This is a joke. Stimulus my ****ing a$$.
And for reference... the bailouts total over 8 Trillion ($8,000,000,000,000) now. That's over $57,000 a tax-payer.
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