1. It is mostly on the young idiots that voted hopeymccokechange in to pay for.

2. The democrats own it 100% even with the rinos so 2010 look good.

I hear ya, man. Thanks. I love those words. I think Happy Hour is calling…(sigh)

Mark Garnett on February 12, 2009 at 2:48 PM

I think you need the Verizon dudes behind you.

New and improved sky hooks? Invisible buildings with Invisible employees who drive Invisible cars and live in Invisible towns with Invisible houses?

DSchoen on February 12, 2009 at 3:31 PM

Absolutely. And because they are all invisible, there’s the extra bonus of a 0 carbon footprint. Its a $1.1 billion win-win.

New and improved sky hooks? Invisible buildings with Invisible employees who drive Invisible cars and live in Invisible towns with Invisible houses?

I’m furious! To go from those great men, to these charlatans in such a short space of time makes me so mad, sick, and frustrated. This is the end of the USA.
We’re all gonna die…

JAM on February 12, 2009 at 1:07 PM

Do not despair, JAM. Remember these words when no others can express your frustration:

We hold these truths to be self-evident, that all men are created equal, that they are endowed by their Creator with certain unalienable rights, that among these are life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. That to secure these rights, governments are instituted among men, deriving their just powers from the consent of the governed. That whenever any form of government becomes destructive to these ends, it is the right of the people to alter or to abolish it, and to institute new government, laying its foundation on such principles and organizing its powers in such form, as to them shall seem most likely to effect their safety and happiness.

How appropriate are these words even now. Is it traitorous to have thoughts of changing the US Government? I struggled with those thoughts for a long time, until I concluded that the words above, taken from the Declaration of Independence, were not applicable only to the monarchy of England. I believe they are applicable at any time, with the full understanding of the phrase “right of the people to alter or to abolish” means just that, it is our right to seek better government when the current one fails us.

Our founding fathers understood the difference between a right and “Hope and Change”.

Mark Garnett
Dude, I know you’re angry, but do you ALWAYS have to YELL in EVERY g*damn POST??

Grow Fins on February 12, 2009 at 12:43 PM

Wow, I had no idea you could “hear” me… Oh for the love of God, people, get a grip… We are TYPING, not talking. What a bunch of teenagers that worry about stupid blog etiqute… I find your offense at my yelling OFFENSIVE, so put that in your stupid, moronic politicaly correct version of TYPING!!!! What a fricking idiot if things like a “caps” is yelling… Call me sometime and I’ll show you what YELLING is… What a turd… I don’t live by those STUPID rules… Just ignore my posts and move on… I can ASSURE you I will do the same… LOOK AT ME I’M YELLING….

CAN YOU HEAR ME?!?

CAN YOU HEAR ME?!?

geez, what stupid bullshit…

“The days where we’re just building sprawl forever, those days are over.”

Meaning that he’s apparently opposed to so called “building sprawl.” What we can look forward to now is the Federalization of state planning and zoning (as if it’s not bad enough already). I’m sure they will find a way to tie Federal funding to states with planning and zoning mandates. If you do not follow the guidelines you won’t get the Federal funding.

The same is coming up the pike with so called “green building” in which building and mechanical codes will be effected and guided by Greenshirt Federal mandates and tied in with Federal-state funding.

The red-tape thickens.

http://gas2.org/2009/02/11/breaking-obama-says-building-sprawl-stops-now/

$13.9 billion for the Clean Energy Finance Authority (a lending mechanism for green energy projects)

Did they repeal the Second Law of Thermodynamics yet? Or do they want to fund perpetual motion machines?

Federal money for “green” energy is so unnecessary–the market will find a way if given a chance. I saw a presentation last night by a company that invented a new type of wind turbine, almost like a jet engine run backward using the wind, and they claim that it generates the same power with half the diameter of conventional wind turbines, and its cost could be competitive with coal-fired power plants. They’re in the prototype stage now, but they have $6M in private venture capital.

In general, if it works and it saves money, private industry will fund it!

$15 billion to “increase and protect affordable housing“

ACORN?

$7.2 billion for expanding broadband coverage

Couldn’t Yahoo or Comcast or AOL pay for this themselves?

$44 billion for education block grants

Chicago Annenberg Challenge times 275. Zero improvement in test scores from CAC, 275 times zero equals…
(for the mathematically challenged from Obama U, the answer is zero).

WashJeff on February 12, 2009 at 1:19 PM

Yes. What he said.
“A quiet revolution can be dispersed throughout a culture over a period of time to destroy it from within. Mass psychology and media can break the traditions, beliefs and morals and the will of a nation so there is no possibility of resistance.” ~ Antonio Gramsci
“By psychopolitics our chief goals are effectively carried forward. To produce a maximum of chaos in the culture of the enemy is our first most important step. Our fruits are grown in chaos, distrust, economic depression and scientific turmoil. … With it you can erase our enemies as insects… Use the courts, use the judges, use the Constitution of the country, use its medical societies and its laws to further our ends. … And bring to Earth, through Communism, the greatest peace Man has ever known.” ~ Lavrenti Beria, Lenin University, in a 1933 address to a group of American/Marxist Psychology Students

Not all of these programs are unworthy, but none of the above qualifies as either short-term stimulus or emergency issues.

Screw that: name one of these programs that falls under the enumerated powers. Name one of these provisions that is constitutional. “Worthy”?! What is that? If we still believe ourselves to be a Constitutional Republic, we may wish to look at what the Constitution says and go from there.
Don’t you get it? This is NOT about the economy; it never was. This is about power. This is about changing our country from a Republic to a Democracy, then, in short order, to an oligarchy. I see that the swing of who controls the “cultural hegemony” has shifted already, based upon what I see here. No longer do folks care about our founding document as much as what we may feel “worthy” or economically sound. We need to check ourselves and see whether we want a Republic or an oligarchy. Those are our choices. Right now, we’re handing the Marxists our country on a silver platter.

Does anyone have any information regarding this?

Pelosi and Reid sent out the word to the Dem Reps and Senators asking for “shovel ready” projects (wink, wink) and got back all the projects those Reps and Senators had backlogged in their “IOU” files. Everything any Democratic donor/big-shot ever asked for from the Dem Congresscritters that they helped get elected was put into Porkulus as payback AND as an assurance of massive future campaign contributions to guarantee their continued ability to “Serve the People” in Congress.

Nothing like the perks of power, the private retirement funds, the special “Congress Only” medical plans, the health clubs, parking lots, airplanes and pure power that clings to you everytime you walk into a restaurant or club.

You can almost see them – smoking big old cigars, clapping each other on the back and rubbing their hands together as they cackle in glee. They’ve got power for life and they are loving it!

Its disgusting, its immoral and its what the people of this nation deserve for giving near absolute power to the Dems.