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Today, Obama wrote in an op-ed piece in the Washington Post that if Congress does not pass his "stimulus" package, and do so right away, "Our nation will slip deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse." "Wow," I thought when I read this, "The stimulus bill must contain some really important stuff if it's critical to the survival of our country! I better take a closer look. Maybe the guy is really onto something." So, I did some internet research and here is just some of the massive spending proposed in the bill:



-- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts

- $380 million for the Women, Infants & Children welfare program

- $300 million in grants to combat violence against women

- $1.2 billion to provide "youth" with summer jobs

- $2.4 billion for "neighborhood stabilization" activities

- $650 million for digital TV coupons

- $150 million for the Smithsonian

- $34 million to renovate the Dept. of Commerce headquarters

- $500 million for improvements to the National Institute of Health facility

- $44 million for repairs to the Dept. of Agriculture's headquarters

- $350 million for agriculture department computers

- $88 million to move (that's right, move) the Public Health Service into a new building.

- $1 billion for the Census Bureau

- $89 billion for Medicaid

- $30 billion for COBRA extensions

- $36 billion for expanded unemployment

- $20 billion for food stamps

- $850 million for Amtrak

- $87 million for a "polar ice breaking ship" (What about the ice caps melting because of global warming?)

- $1.7 million for the National Park Service

- $55 million for the Historic Preservation Fund

- $7.6 million for the Rural Advancement Program

- $150 million for "agricultural commodity purchases"

- $150 million for producers of livestock, farm-raised fish and honey bees

- $160 million for paid volunteers (what is a "paid volunteer"?) at the Corporation for National and Community Service

Are we really to believe Obama that we may not be able to reverse our country's slide if he and Congress are prevented from ramming all this pork down our throats? And, by the way, what happened to Obama's pledge to end pork barrel spending?

Another interesting tidbit: Obama said that one of the reasons Congress must pass the stimulus bill, and must pass it NOW, is to end our dependence on foreign oil. What is astonishing is that he made this proclamation about energy independence less than 24 hours after his new interior secretary canceled the oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land.

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We are only two weeks into this new guy's term and already he and his party are out of control by possibly submitting to nothing but maybe fear mongering.

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Orignal From: Obama A Fear Monger'er?

I have found a bit of information that the Clarion Fund, which is a front and shares the same address in New York as Aish Hatorah, the right wing Zionist group from Israel, and was helped by Endowment for Middle East Truth, who pulled out of it after the SEC began its investigation....EMET's spokesperson Sarah Stern said she was deceived by the group and never spoke personally to them, but phone records show she is LYING......so who came up with the money and plan to distribute this Hate Speech? anyone know anything more?
In response to the neo-con knee jerk reaction, I am a Jewish American, dedicated to a peaceful resolution of the crisis in Israel and Palestine. And I lost a dear cousin in the South Tower at the WTC. Radical Christians who spew hate are every bit as dangerous as Radical anyone....

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Orignal From: Does anyone know who the Far Right Radical Zionists are that distributed "Obsession?

Music by Noah & The Whale Still photography and video work by Michelle Cho. Mark Hewitt: Falling into Place is supported by Marilyn M. Arthur. We also thank Lex and Ann Alexander, Lisa and Dudley Anderson, Brandon Hollan, and Charlie Millard. Nasher Museum exhibitions and programs are generously supported by the Mary Duke Biddle Foundation, Mary DBT Semans and the late James H. Semans, The Duke Endowment, the Nancy Hanks Endowment, the K. Brantley and Maxine E. Watson Endowment Fund, the James Hustead Semans Memorial Fund, the Marilyn M. Arthur Fund, the Victor and Lenore Behar Endowment Fund, the George W. and Viola Mitchell Fearnside Endowment Fund, the Sarah Schroth Fund, the Margaret Elizabeth Collett Fund, North Carolina Arts Council, the Office of the President and the Office of the Provost, Duke University, and the Friends of the Nasher Museum of Art.

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Orignal From: Nasher Museum: Mark Hewitt Installation