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This is from CNN. There is really nothing to say. Just look at the Winners and Losers and it really speaks for itself. And keep in mind, this is from CNN… Not exactly a “right wing” spin here….

Winners

High-speed and inner-city rail: Went from $300 million in House bill to $2.25 billion in Senate to $8 billion in final version. There also is a $6.9 billion provision for public transit.

Amtrak: Picked up $500 million from both House and Senate versions to total $1.3 billion. The bill stipulates that no more than 60 percent can go to the Northeast Corridor.

National Institutes of Health: Ends up with $10 billion in the final bill. The House proposed $3.5 billion and the Senate wanted $10 billion — $8.2 billion goes to the NIH director for his discretion.

Government oversight: Board to oversee stimulus bill spending will get $84 million to do the job. House bill allocated $14 million while the Senate bill called for $7 million. There is also more than $100 million more for various inspectors general in different agencies.

NASA: Banked just more than $2 billion, including $400,000 for science/global-warming research. Watch congressional comments on the stimulus bill »

Losers

• Veterans: Nearly all items for Veterans Affairs were reduced and the $2 billion the Senate wanted for VA construction was wiped out altogether. The VA did get one thing: $1 billion for medical facilities renovation and retooling.
• Military construction: Cut and put into a general pot, a change from targeted money for each branch of the services. Army construction alone went from $600 million in the Senate and $900 million in the House to $180 million in the final bill. But negotiators compromised over a general military construction fund — the House wanted $3.75 billion while the Senate allocated $118 million and settled on $1.45 billion for all services.
• FBI: Senate had allocated $475 million but all was cut out of final bill.

Right…… So Veterans, the Military, and the FBI are the “Losers” and NASA’s global warming research, government oversight (whatever the @#%# that means) and trains are the big “Winners.” Says a lot about the liberals doesn’t it?

Oh yea, one more thing. Can someone tell me again how exactly this BS is going to save our economy? Trains? Global Warming research? Government oversight? Boy, these intellectuals really pulled out their A-game to save us, didn’t they!

Oh man, I first read about this on HotAir. Obama is going around lying (surprise, surprise) about Caterpillar offering to hire people back if the Stimulus package passes. Apparently Obama forgot that CEOs usually have, you know, like TVs and the Internets and stuff. Now the CEO is setting the story straight.

EAST PEORIA, ILL. — President Obama today repeated the claim we asked about yesterday at the press briefing that Jim Owens, the CEO of Caterpillar, Inc., “said that if Congress passes our plan, this company will be able to rehire some of the folks who were just laid off.”

Caterpillar announced 22,000 layoffs last month.

But after the president left the event, Owens said the exact opposite.

If you are up for a good laugh, check out the CEO clearing the air.

Daschle and Geithner’s tax problems and now another problem with a cabinet member, although this one is resigning because he is a Republican and does not agree with Obama’s handling of the “Bailout” plan. Oh well, we cannot expect much from a President who has no real work experience. All of this, you know, responsibility must be really challenging for him!

WASHINGTON – Republican Sen. Judd Gregg of New Hampshire abruptly withdrew his nomination as commerce secretary Thursday, citing “irresolvable conflicts” with President Barack Obama’s handling of the economic stimulus and 2010 census. “We are functioning from a different set of views on many critical items of policy,” Gregg said in a statement released by his Senate office.

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I don’t know where Obama found his Cabinet members (besides the “Golden Parachute” club on Wall Street). One thing is for sure, we now know why Liberals don’t mind raising taxes - because they don’t pay them! Daschle, Geithner, and the rest are tax dodging cheats. Don’t be fooled; they get away with stuff that you and I would pay dearly for.

This guy Geithner is a fraud and a joke. He has zero credibility and, like his boss, has no qualifications for his job. That was proven today when he layed out his THREE TRILLION DOLLAR plan for the Fed to rescue banks.  The market responded appropriately - by dropping almost 400 points. You see, our stock market is a function of Free Market Capitalism, and Obama’s entire administration are the trojan horse of full-blown Marxism.

You can call it “hope”, you can call it “being responsible”, you can call it “helping those in need”, but the simple fact is that this Liberal administration is ushering in an era of Marxism the likes of which we have never seen. They desire to turn the US into France, Germany, or worse (if such a thing is possible). In the late 90’s under Newt, Conservatives helped lower the government spending to just over 18% of GDP. If Obama and Pelosi and the rest of the Liberals have their way, government spending will represent 40% of GDP. That puts us right in line with the most Socialistic and Marxist nations on earth. And that is what Liberals want.

When you hear about all of this, an intelligent and logical thinker can only come to one conclusion - Liberals benefit from a bad economy. Does that scare you? It should. Talk about a conflict of interest…. It is very true. Liberals want big government, and we are seeing now that nothing stimulates government expansion like a bad economy. The worse the economy, the more government expansion. Liberals have always held the belief that more government is the solution to any economic problem, and they are really putting that into practice now.

“Economic Stimulus”? Please. This is pure, unadulturated government spending. It is pork. It is earmarks.  It is classic, old-school Washington at work. Is this the “change” we were promised? Hardly. Obama keeps claiming, repeatedly, that this “Economic Stimulus” bill has no pork and no earmarks? Really? Well then what about all of the pork and earmarks? Even the AP is calling Obama out on his lies. Obama, in addition to all of his other fatal flaws, is also a pathological liar. He thinks his constituents are dumb, and lucky for him, a lot of them are. Really, really dumb.

Growing up, I was taught that taking money from someone else to keep for yourself or give to someone else was STEALING. When you create a narrowly-defined group that represents only a small percentage of the population (i.e. a “minority group”) and force that group to pay for every fleeting desire of the majority of the population, that is theft. Pure and simple. That isn’t “patriotism”. Even calling it Socialism is being nice. It is STEALING. Period. And it is unfair, unjust, and un-Constitutional to make a few people pay for the needs of the many. For shame on the liberals and the greedy, selfish and ignorant sheep that voted them into power.