Obama's "Stimulus" Plan

The news today is just Obam-inable. His "stimulus" package is now at $850 Billion dollars and is 334 pages long. And it is just a freaking joke.

Thomas Bartholt, head of the Joint Committee on Taxation, testified Thursday that he couldn't promise that ONE SINGLE JOB would result from this proposal by Democrats. Here's an idea: give me $850 billion dollars, and I PROMISE that I can create at least one job. Maybe even 2 or 3. I think a human with the brain cells of an earthworm could manage to create at least one job with $850 billion.

But guess what, this "stimulus package" isn't really about stimulating the economy at all, it's about blowing money on pet projects. The "stimulus" package includes $1 Billion for new Censuses, $400 million for “habitat restoration and migration activities,” $150 million for “bridge removal,” $800 million for Amtrak, and $200 million for the “leaking underground storage tank trust fund”.

According to redstate.com, the "stimulus package" includes more than 4 times as much funding for grass planting on the Washington Mall as there is small business tax relief. Who exactly decided that planting grass on the Washington Mall was better for the economy than small business tax relief???????

According to michellemalkin.com, even more incredibly, groups that commit voter fraud like ACORN are eligible to receive up to a $4.19 billion pot of money for "neighborhood stabilization activities". Also, Nancy Pelosi wants to add birth control funding to the "stimulus package". Birth control does not stimulate the economy, Nancy!

This is not a stimulus package!! This is borrowing/printing massive amounts of new money to throw around to various special interest groups.

If Darrell and I ran our household budget like congress (borrowed tons of money we didn't have and ran out to every possible store we could find to buy crazy things like iguanas and gold plated toilet seats), we would be living in a homeless shelter by now. Very very sad.