Stimulus Pork

Dumb Dems of California (Facebook group) ^ | 3-26-20 | Dumb Dems of CA

[wac3rd]

Total absurdity of a "Virus Bill" listed: Here's a review of what's in this stimulus package..

Courtesy of Dave Wukawitz ✅Here’s what’s in the stimulus deal.

$100,000,000 to NASA, because, who knows why. $20,000,000,000 to the USPS, because why the hell not $300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts / because why not $300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities/ because no one even knew that was a thing

$15,000,000 for Veterans Employment Training / for when the GI Bill isn't enough $435,000,000 for mental health support / thats a lot of suicide hotlines $30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund/ because that will keep people employed

$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program $300,000,000 to Public Broadcasting / NPR has to be bought by the Dems $500,000,000 to Museums and Libraries / Who the hell knows how we are going to use it

$720,000,000 to Social Security Admin / but get this only 200,000,000 is to help people. The rest is for admin costs $25,000,000 for Cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building / I shit you not it's on page 136

Still reading through this crap

$7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries $35,000,000 to the JFK Center for performing Arts $25,000,000 for additional salary for House of Representatives $3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the VA $315,000,000 for State Department Diplomatic Programs

$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development $300,000,000 for International Disaster Assistance $300,000,000 for Migrant and Refugee Assistance pg 147 $90,000,000 for the Peace Corp pg 148 $13,000,000 to Howard University pg 121

9,000,000 Misc Senate Expenses pg 134 $100,000,000 to Essential Air carriers pg 162 This of note because the Airlines are going to need billions in loans to keep them afloat. $100,000,000 is chump change

$40,000,000,000 goes to the Take Responsibility to Workers and Families Act. This sounds like it's direct payments for workers. Pg 164

$1,000,000,000 Airlines Recycle and Save Program pg 163 $25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs pg 165

$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation (Amtrak) pg 167

$526,000,000 Grants to Amtrak to remain available if needed through 2021 pg 168 (what are the odds that doesn't go unused)

Hidden on page 174 the Secretary has 7 days to allocate the funds & notify Congress

$25,000,000,000 for Transit Infrastructure pg 169 $3,000,000 Maritime Administration pg 172 $5,000,000 Salaries and Expensive Office of the Inspector General pg 172 No voter ID to get a ballot, & anonymous “ballot harvesting” pg 650

$2,500,000 Public and Indian Housing pg 175 $5,000,000 Community Planning and Development pg 175 $2,500,000 Office of Housing

$1,500,000,000 Tenant-Based Rental Assistance Office of Public and Indian Housing. 1,000,000,000 of which can be used as "additional administrative and other expenses". pg 176 $720,000,000 to the public housing fund pg 177

$100,000,000 for Community Block Grants for Native Americans pg 183 $250,000,000 for Housing Block Grants for Tribes pg 182

$130,000,000 for AIDS Housing pg 185 $20,000,000 of which goes to one time grantees whatever the hell that means pg 186

$15,000,000,000 for the Community Development Fund pg 188

Only $10,000,000 of which is set aside for infrastructure for fighting infectious disease pg 191

$5,000,000,000 in Homeless Assistance pg 193

$100,000,000,000 for Rental Assistance - pg 198

An additional $7,000,000 enforce the Fair Housing Act - 203

Paid Family Leave for Sickness is 2 paid work weeks pg 213

Emergency Family Leave Now applies to all employers not just companies over 500 employees pg 208 Guarantees paid leave to employees who have an in-law who gets sick pg 209 Opens up leave for some you are in a "committed relationships with" pg 212

$1,000,000,000 for more Obamaphones!

This shows me that they don't really think this is a big deal. Business as usual. Use a crisis to rob us blind.

Still reading......

$227,000,000 for grants to States for youth 2 activities pg 80

$261,000,000 for grants to States for dislocated worker employment and training activities, including supportive services and needs-related payments; pg 80

$10,000,000 for Migrant and Seasonal Farmworker programs...WTF??

$100,000,000 for ‘‘Job Corps’’,

$15,000,000 for ‘‘Program Administration’’,

$6,500,000, to the ‘‘Wage and Hour Division’’,

$30,000,000, to OSHA

$10,000,000 for Susan Harwood training grants $1,300,000,000, for ‘‘Primary Health Care’’, $75,000,000, for ‘‘Student Aid Administration’’, $9,500,000,000, for ‘‘Higher Education’’,

[Viking2002]

Yep. Anything that can be extrapolated from archived data gets thrown in the mix. They got called on the carpet for doing things like putting sensors in the middle of airports. Well, what do you think the temp's going to be at a jet hangar in March? You're going to get a sustained, dynamic reading, several degrees higher and not a shielded, ambient temp record. I remember someone bringing this up during to a meteorologist during my graduate NWS Skywarn training, and he danced around the question like Michigan J. Frog. And the subject matter was in reference to retention of topographic heat vs. radiant cooling. LOL!

[Carriage Hill]

I’m more than angry, and filled with loathing and hate for the scum who proposed and passed this crap. I’m not surprised though, knowing what kind of corrupt, criminal, lowlife, dirtbag, subhuman Congresscritters we have.

[Carriage Hill]

Like RT TV.

[Angelas13]

I believe the list is from the democratic bill since the pages shown do not match what the Senate passed. https://www.scribd.com/document/453288920/Final-Coronavirus-Package-Text#from_embed

[lizma2]

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