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		<description><![CDATA[FreedomTalks put up a great post on 1-26-09 about the Stimulus/Pork plan that passed the House. You really need to see this stuff. It is absolutely amazing that this stuff could ever be passed off as a stimulus to anything except big bloated government. Check these 20 things out that they got from the Republican [...]<p><a href="http://nobamazone.com/2009/02/04/20-things-you-need-to-know-about-the-stimulus-plan/">20 Things You Need To Know About The House Stimulus Plan</a> is a post from: <a href="http://nobamazone.com">NobamaZone</a></p>
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			<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p><a href="http://www.freedomtalks.org/2009/01/26/20-facts-about-the-democrats-trillion-dollar-spending-plan/" target="_blank">FreedomTalks</a> put up a great post on 1-26-09 about the <a href="http://www.freedomtalks.org/2009/01/26/20-facts-about-the-democrats-trillion-dollar-spending-plan/" target="_blank">Stimulus/Pork plan</a> that passed the House. You really need to see this stuff. It is absolutely amazing that this stuff could ever be passed off as a stimulus to anything except big bloated government. Check these 20 things out that they got from the <a href="http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109402" target="_blank">Republican House Leadership web site</a>. The facts are out there gang if you just go looking for them.</p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">1.       The $825 billion package slated for a House vote later this week will exceed more than $1.1 trillion when adding in the interest ($300 plus billion) between 2009-2019 to pay for it. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">2.       The Capitol Hill Democrats’ plan includes funding for <a href="http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109313" target="_blank">contraceptives</a>; regardless of where anyone stands on taxpayer funded contraception, there is no question that it has NOTHING to do with the economy.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">3.       The legislation could open billions of taxpayer dollars to left-wing groups like the <a href="http://gopleader.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109339" target="_blank">Association of Community Organizations for Reform Now (ACORN)</a>, which has been accused of voter fraud, is reportedly under federal investigation; and played a key role in the housing meltdown. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">4.       Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the House Democrats’ proposal:</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $650 million for digital TV coupons.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $600 million for new cars for the federal government.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $6 billion for colleges/universities – many which have billion dollar endowments.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.</span></p>
<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.75in;"><span class="middlecopy">·         $200 million for the National Mall, including $21 million for sod.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">5.       The plan establishes at least 32 new government programs at a cost of over $136 billion.  That means more than a third of this plan’s spending provisions are dedicated to creating new government programs. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">6.       The plan provides spending in at least 150 different federal programs, ranging from Amtrak to the Transportation Security Administration.  Is this the “targeted” plan Democratic leaders promised?</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">7.       Even though the legislation contains at least 152 separate spending proposals, the authors of the plan can only say that 34 have any chance at keeping or growing jobs. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">8.       Just one in seven dollars of an $18.5 billion expenditure on “energy efficiency” and “renewable energy programs” would be spent within the next 18 months.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">9.       The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">10.   The House Democrats’ bill will cost each and every household $6,700 in additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">11.   The bill provides enough spending – $825 billion – to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.  $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">12.   $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the United States $22,000.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">13.   Although the House Democrats’ proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill – or three percent – is for road and highway spending.  A recent <a href="http://republicanleader.house.gov/News/DocumentSingle.aspx?DocumentID=109035" target="_blank">study</a> from the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office found that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">14.   Much of the funding within the House Democrats’ proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG) – a program that already has $16 billion on hand.  States also are sitting on some $9 billion in unused highway funds – funds that Congress is prepared to rescind later this year. </span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">15.   All board members of the “Accountability and Transparency Board” created by this legislation are appointees of the President; none will be appointed by Congress.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">16.   A scant 2.7 percent, or $22.3 billion of the overall package, is dedicated to small business tax relief.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">17.   The Joint Committee on Taxation estimates that the legislation increases by seven million the number of people who get a check back from the IRS that exceeds what they paid in payroll and income taxes.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">18.   The “Making Work Pay” tax credit at the center of the plan amounts to $1.37 a day, or about the price of a cup of coffee.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">19.   Almost one-third of the so-called “tax relief” in the House Democrats’ bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package – not the 40 percent that President Obama had requested.</span></p>
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<p style="margin: 0in 0in 0pt 0.5in;"><span class="middlecopy">20.   $825 billion is just the beginning – many Capitol Hill Democrats want to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their “stimulus” plan.  In fact, the Chairman of the House Appropriations Committee, Rep. David Obey (D-WI), told <em><a href="http://www.rollcall.com/news/31405-1.html" target="_blank">Roll Call</a></em> earlier this month, <strong>“<span style="text-decoration: underline;">I would not be surprised to see us go further on some of these programs down the line</span>.” </strong></span></p>
<p>The Senate has an even bigger "Stimulus" in the works. Get on the phone and fire up the email and let your senators know that you want this crap stopped NOW!</p>
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