Posted on 02/17/2009 9:01:20 PM PST by 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.
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HA! And those are just for starters...
I don't know. Could be? It's strange the way the chart put all those items into one category: Labor & volunteering, healthcare, social services, education, social security
According to the breakdown:
Labor spending is for employment, training, and "community service".
Volunteering spending is for programs like Americorps and other "community service".
Healthcare includes "incentive payments to hospitals and physicians who computerize medical-records systems." (That sounds scary.)
I can't tell what is included under social services. Education looks exactly like what we'd expect.
Social security includes "construction of new National Computer Center" for SSA.
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