Posted on 02/09/2009 10:07:40 AM PST by Indy Pendance
A sentence from the stimulus bill:
“For transit capital assistance grants, $6,000,000,000 (increased by $1,500,000,000), of which $5,400,000,000 (increased by $1,350,000,000) shall be for grants under 5 section 5307 of title 49, United States Code and shall be apportioned in accordance with section 5336 of such title (other than subsections (i)(1) and (j)) but may not be combined or commingled with any other funds apportioned under such section 5336, and of which $600,000,000 (increased by $150,000,000) shall be for grants under section 5311 of such title and shall be apportioned in accordance with such section 5311 but may not be combined or commingled with any other funds apportioned under that section: Provided, That of the funds provided for section 5311 under this heading, 3 percent shall be made available for section 5311(c)(1): Provided further, That applicable chapter 53 requirements shall apply except that the Federal share of the costs for which a grant is made under this heading shall be, at the option of the recipient, up to 100 percent: Provided further, In lieu of the requirements of section 1103 of this Act, funds made available under this heading shall be apportioned not later than 7 days after the date of enactment of this Act: Provided further, That for purposes of applying section 1104 of this 25 253 Act to this appropriation, the deadline for grantees to enter into obligations to make use of not less than 50 percent of the funds awarded shall be 90 days after apportionment: Provided further, That the provisions of section 1101(b) of Public Law 109–59 shall apply to funds made available under this heading: Provided further, That not-withstanding any other provision of law, of the funds apportioned in accordance with section 5336, up to three-quarters of 1 percent shall be available for administrative expenses and program management oversight and of the funds apportioned in accordance with section 5311, up to one-half of 1 percent shall be available for administrative expenses and program management oversight and both amounts shall remain available for obligation until September 30, 2012: Provided further, That the preceding proviso shall apply in lieu of the provisions in section 1106 of this Act.”
First, we kill all the lawyers...
Send it to them. What a fricking joke this is.
Easy. Mass transportation, a liberal cause, is going to get 6 billion dollars worth of free money.
It’s simple:
“Bend Over.”
Did anyone try running this through babelfish?
BOHICA
Ibbity Bibbity, bibbity bab.
I think we should go for the politicians first.
Apparently part of the stimulus package is the hiring of an army of lawyers to figure out what the hell $900,000,000,000 is being spent on.
Amtrak, I believe
Uh-huh, and which states or cities have mass transit? Not fly-over country.
I think that's for the new jet fleet for Congress, including new private airports for their exclusive use on various Caribbbean and South Pacific resort islands.
That’s not a sentence!! Trying to READ it is a sentence (as in punishment)!! That’s like writing War and Peace with no punctuation.
The problem is that it is supposed to be so indecipherable that everyone will ignore it. This NEEDS explanation.
That’s not a sentence!! Trying to READ it is a sentence (as in punishment)!! That’s like writing War and Peace with no punctuation.
The problem is that it is supposed to be so indecipherable that everyone will ignore it. This NEEDS explanation.
Since most politicians are lawyers killing the lawyers first will get most of them plus there won't be anyone left to prosecute us.
as Beavis used to say “words,words ,words...”
"When in the Course of human events, it becomes necessary for one people to dissolve the political bands which have connected them with another, and to assume among the powers of the earth, the separate and equal station to which the Laws of Nature and of Nature’s God entitle them, a decent respect to the opinions of mankind requires that they should declare the causes which impel them to the separation.
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