Get a Job Schumer!

Posted by on February 11, 2009 · Leave a Comment 

02/11/09

Yesterday, Senator Schumer (D-NY) said the American people don’t care about the pork in the stimulus bill.  I know, I know… I had to pick myself up off the floor after I heard it, too.

With the revelation that none of the hundreds of thousands of calls, emails, and faxes went to Senator Schumer (they couldn’t have, could they?  I mean, for him to make such a ludricrous statement surely he didn’t receive any of those pleas to stop the Porkulous Bill, right?) I decided it was time for me to figure out who this guy is.  Not surprisingly, I found out he is a nobody.  Oops, I mean he is a Harvard grad/career politician who never had a real day of work in his life.

This is your life Charles Schumer:

He attended Harvard College in 1968

After completing his undergraduate degree, he continued to Harvard Law School, earning his Juris Doctor in 1974.  He chose not to practice law but to enter politics.

In 1974, Schumer ran for and was elected to the New York State Assembly, at age 23.

He served three terms, from 1975-1980.

1980 elected to House of Representatives.

1998-current, Senator.

You be the judge.  Has this man ever done an honest day’s work?  Is he qualified to know what issues concern you and me?  I think not.

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A Legislative Abomination (ObamaNation)

Posted by on February 6, 2009 · 1 Comment 

02/06/09
In a Washington Post op-ed today, Charles Krauthammer , very succinctly states what we have all been thinking.

The Fierce Urgency of Pork

Friday, February 6, 2009

“A failure to act, and act now, will turn crisis into a catastrophe.” – President Obama, Feb. 4.

Catastrophe, mind you. So much for the president who in his inaugural address two weeks earlier declared “we have chosen hope over fear.” Until, that is, you need fear to pass a bill.

And so much for the promise to banish the money changers and influence peddlers from the temple. An ostentatious executive order banning lobbyists was immediately followed by the nomination of at least a dozen current or former lobbyists to high position. Followed by a Treasury secretary who allegedly couldn’t understand the payroll tax provisions in his 1040. Followed by Tom Daschle, who had to fall on his sword according to the new Washington rule that no Cabinet can have more than one tax delinquent. Read more

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You Won’t Believe This Crap!

Posted by on February 5, 2009 · 2 Comments 

Here is an eye-opening look at what is in the Porkulus Bill before the Senate now.  Somebody, PLEASE tell me how any of this creates a job or stimulates the economy!

(for full article National Review)

1. $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts

2. $380 million in the Senate bill for the Women, Infants and Children program

3. $300 million for grants to combat violence against women

4. $2 billion for federal child care block grants

5. $6 billion for university building projects

6. $15 billion for boosting Pell Grant college scholarships

7. $4 billion for job-training programs, including $1.2 billion to provide “youth” summer jobs for people up to the age of 24

8. $1 billion for community development block grants

9. $4.2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization activities”

10. $650 million for digital TV coupons, including $90 million to educate “vulnerable populations”

11. $15 billion for business-loss carry-backs

12. $145 billion for “Making Work Pay” tax credits

13. $83 billion for the earned income credit

14. $150 million for the Smithsonian

15. $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters

16. $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities

17. $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters

18. $350 million for Agriculture Department computers

19. $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building next year

20. $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters

21. $600 million to convert federal auto fleet to hybrids

22. $450 million for National Aeronautics and Space Administration

23. $600 million for National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

24. $1 billion for the Census Bureau

25. $89 billion for Medicaid

26. $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension

27. $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits

28. $20 billion for food stamps

29. $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers

30. $850 million for Amtrak

31. $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship

32. $1.7 billion for the National Park System

33. $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund

34. $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”

35. $150 million for agricultural commodity purchases

36. $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”

37. $2 billion for renewable energy research

38. $2 billion for a “clean-coal” power plant in Illinois

39. $6.2 billion shall be for the Weatherization Assistance Program

40. $3.5 billion shall be for energy efficiency and conservation block grants

41. $3.4 billion shall be for the State Energy Program

42. $200 million shall be for state and local electric-transport projects

43. $300 million shall be for energy-efficient appliance rebate programs

44. $400 million for hybrid cars for state and local governments

45. $1 billion for the manufacturing of advanced batteries

46. $1.5 billion for green technology loan guarantees

47. $8 billion for innovative technology loan guarantee program

48. $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects

49. $4.5 billion for electricity grid

50. $79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund

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