The stimulus package
posted on
Jan 30, 2009 08:00PM
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- $9 Billion to improve nationwide broadband access(telecomms)
- $4.19 Billion to ACORN
- $1 Billion for the 2010 Census
- $600 Million for new government cars
- $15 Billion for healthcare for the jobless <- Note that it is jobless, NOT unemployed
- $54 Billion in Food Stamps and unemployment benefits
- $79 Billion to state governments
- $6 Billion for University building projects
- $50 Million for the Arts
- $2.6 Billion tax credit for first time home buyers
- $400 Million to study Global Warming
- $335 Million for STD prevention education
- $1 Billion for Amtrak
- $2 Billion for childcare subsidies
- $2.4 Billion for carbon capture demonstration projects
- $650 Million [more] for the digital TV conversion
- $7 Billion for modernizing Federal Buildings
- $83 Billion for 'earned income credits' for people who pay no taxes
- $81 Billion for Medicaid
- $1 Billion for nutritional programs
- $2.5 Billion for cash welfare payments
-$5 billion for health information technology.
-$575 million for the National Institute of Standards of Technology.
-$1 million to upgrade the Los Angeles County Convention Center elevated "catwalk" for cameras and lighting;
-$350,000 for an Albuquerque, N.M., fitness center;
-$94 million for a parking garage at the Orange Bowl in Miami;
-$4.5 million for Gretna, Florida, to bottle water with recyclable bottles;
-$35 million music hall of fame in Florissant, Missouri, and
-$3.1 million for a swimming pool in Tulsa.
-Santa Barbara, Calif., respectfully requests $80,000 for a tennis facility;
-Savannah, Georgia, would like to build a children's museum;
-Ventura, Calif., wants $6 million to renovate the beach at Surfers Point,
-Durham, N.C., home of the Durham Bulls, wants to construct the first minor League Baseball Hall of fame. -
-Dayton, Ohio, wants $1.5 million to reduce prostitution with education programs,
-Ponce, Puerto Rico wants $5.7 million to improve its cruise ship terminal (which will create all of 60 jobs)