hello america! you're probably tired of me bashing obama &, for the record, i am too. however, i have to speak my mind based on the facts &, if that leads to obama bashing , so be it. i don't make this stuff up. to see him on tv praising this bill as something that will turn this economic mess around pisses me off &, i'm going to say something about it---it's just that simple.
in a nutshell-the bill is crap. it won't do what obama says it will do. for that matter, he didn't even write it &, it doesn't contain what he really wanted in it. you know it, i know it &, he knows it but, he can't tell you that, so, he has to continue to support it. &, by him being all over tv promoting the 'goodness' of this bill, he's going to sway some of america to his side.
get mad at me all you want, but i speak the truth when i say the following: obamas lack of experience in the washington senate & his lack of leadership experience has hurt him & put his re-election in doubt. oh, he'll still be popular for a while but, that will fade very quickly when america takes a good, hard look at his bill. obama should have drafted a bill for nancy pelosi & her crew detailing exactly what he wanted & didn't want. but, he should have done the following before he even got to the bill.
obama should have invited just 4 people to his office & they are: the majority & minority leader of house & the majority & minority leader of the senate. he should have presented each of them with his own bill. obama should have stood up & took ownership of the bill & that would have solved multiple issues at the door. 1-it would have proved his intent on bipartisan support
2-it would have kept 'pork' out of the bill
3-it would have proved his leadership
instead, he allowed pelosi & company to write & present this bill & now, he's stuck with it. obama knows this bill is crap but, what how can he tell that to america without ruffling the feathers of his fellow democrats & risking losing the faith of the nation? he's stuck & he has himself to blame for it. if he had the experience he would have known that both parties have their own objectives &, he wouldn't have trusted either to carry out his own.
so, in a sense, obama has dug his own political grave &, it all starts with this bill which was supposed to contain no 'earmarks' or 'pork'-his words, not mine-& yet, it's loaded with them &, he has to be held accountable for them. he took the bull by the horn & he's ending up gored.
america, no matter what tv station or radio station you see or hear obama on, he has no defense or acceptable explanation for the following which comes to you from gop.gov::::
Questionable or Non-Stimulative Spending:
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$2 billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Fund, providing funds to organizations such as ACORN, which has been accused of practicing unlawful voter registration in recent elections
$10 million for the inspection of canals in urban areas
$100 million for grants to small shipyards
$198 million to authorize payments to certain Filipino veterans from WWII
$300 million for the Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program
$2 billion to support the manufacturing of advanced vehicle batteries
$1 billion for Community Development Block Grants
$1.3 billion for Amtrak, including $450 million for a new rail security grant program not included in either the House-passed or the Senate-passed bills
$300 million for federal procurement of plug-in and fuel efficient vehicles
$8 billion for a High Speed Passenger Rail Program, after the House did not include any funding for the program and the Senate included $2 billion, which will fund at least one project from Las Vegas to Los Angeles
$15 million for historic preservation at historically black colleges and universities
$170 million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research the causes, effects, and ways to mitigate climate change
$200 million for Americorps and other paid "volunteerism" programs
$400 million for NASA to accelerate climate research missions
$5.5 billion for federal buildings (GSA), including $4.5 billion to convert federal buildings into "high-performance green buildings" and $450 million for a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
$210 million for a new grant program to modify and upgrade local fire stations
$142 million for the Coast Guard to alter or remove 4 obstructive bridges
$25 million for the Smithsonian Institution for maintenance backlogs
$1 billion for expenses in conjunction with the 2010 decennial census
$650 million for Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupons
$1 billion for a Prevention and Wellness Fund, which can be used for sexually transmitted disease (STD) education and prevention programs at the CDC
$500 million to replace a 30-year old computer system at the Social Security Administration
$500 million for a health professions training program-funding which an earlier committee report said were allocated because "a key component of attaining universal health care reform will be ensuring the supply of primary care providers."
america, this is your money being spent without them even asking you if this is what you wanted to spend it on. yes, there are some good things in this bill but, none of them are in the above.
