said by shadow700:said by ahedge:Thank you, I'll check those. I hate pork too, but would a few items make a 640+ page bill full of pork? And you speak of partisan blinders?
$1B to Amtrak
$2B in "child care subsidies"
$50M to the National Endowment of the Arts
$650M for DTV coupons
$7B to "modernize" federal buildings
$66B to Education
....absolutely NONE of which can be considered "stimulus". Note that I am taking issue with these programs other than to say that they don't belong in a "stimulus" bill.
And I agree with you on that, having a separate bill for stimulus action items would have made a clearer cut. Anyway, what's not stimulus in that bill is not necessarily pork (I am not saying there isn't any).
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