Getting to $787 Billion (Breakdown of Stimulus Bill)

Wall Street Journal ^ | February 17, 2009 | WSJ

[libertarian27]

After a month of wrangling, 246 House Democrats, 57 Senate Democrats and three Senate Republicans voted late last week to pass a compromise economic recovery package of spending provisions, tax cuts and aid to laid-off workers and their families. The 1,073-page bill, signed into law Monday by President Obama, contains hundreds of provisions. This is how they add up. Click the columns to sort by amount or type of spending, and see a summary table below.

[PGalt]

Interesting (quick glance). Thanks for posting.

[ProtectOurFreedom]

A lot of categories and columns seem to be missing:

• Graft
• Corruption
• Kickbacks
• Union payoffs
• Bribery
• Extortion
• Malfeasance
• Ineptitude
• Pork
• Waste

Just to name a few...

[libertarian27]

it’s pretty neat and interactive.

It’s like video camera’ing yourself as you are being robbed

[berdie]

later

[Mad_Tom_Rackham]

"THESE GUYS really know how to do a job!"

[PGalt]

It’s like video camera’ing yourself as you are being robbed

ROFL

Very, very funny!

[zwerni]

ping

[Dragonspirit]

Wow. Check out the numbers.

$787,241,000,000 for Medicaid???? (By FAR the biggest portion of the entire bill and at least 40% of the entire thing). How is that stimulus again?

This whole thing was a backdoor into a national health care system.

[PGalt]

I haven’t listened to your show yet, but I am on FReeper Race Bannon’s ping list for it. (just checked your profile)

[libertarian27]

That’s not my show - I’m a listener

I just put that in the profile in case I need to load up a ping list if Race Bannon or Biggirl can’t do it ;)

[Dragonspirit]

Actually, misread the chart the first time.

Only (I know, “only”) $90,000,000 to Medicaid

[PGalt]

Thanks. My bad.

[Tired of Taxes]

I bookmarked it. Looks informative.

According to the Totals chart (if I’m reading it correctly), out of 18 categories, the MOST (in millions) is going to:

“Aid to states for Medicaid” - $790,614
“Tax cuts” - $301,278
“Health IT” - $90,044
“Labor & volunteering, healthcare, social services, education, social security” - $72,564

The LEAST is going to:

“Oversight” - $25
“Foreign relations” - $602
“Homeland Security” - $2,755
“Military and veterans” - $4,281
“Defense” - $4,555

I hope someone will double-check my numbers. Correct me if I’m wrong.

[bigbob]

Thanks, here’s the WAPO’s graphic version:

http://tinyurl.com/ckh3xg

[libertarian27]

I almost hurled going down that roller-coaster graph at the bottom of WAPO’s page

The other one looked like a big-tent
That’s what it is - a Circus
And PT Barnum has all of our numbers

[pillut48]

“Labor & volunteering, healthcare, social services, education, social security” - $72,564

Would this be a nice little euphemism for ACORN?!

[libertarian27]

What the ‘Bleep’ does this mean?

Aid -Government

Costs to Internal Revenue Service of providing health coverage help to workers laid off because of outsourcing overseas

$80 Million

The IRS is outsourcing?
Very Stimulating/s

[vigilante2]

$787,241,000,000 for Medicaid????

We have a lot of illegals to care for

[Molly Pitcher]

Well, I'm glad somebody read the darn bill! very detailed, very good...