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Check out this site... it's amazing. I can see what my town is going to spend money on and it looks like 70% of it is crap!
Feb. 21 - Stimulus Watch - State By State Listing - News - Mike Huckabee
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Check out this site... it's amazing. I can see what my town is going to spend money on and it looks like 70% of it is crap!
Feb. 21 - Stimulus Watch - State By State Listing - News - Mike Huckabee
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Huh. Apparently, WE need to spend something like 2.5 million to paint a friggen water tower.
Check out this site... it's amazing. I can see what my town is going to spend money on and it looks like 70% of it is crap!
Feb. 21 - Stimulus Watch - State By State Listing - News - Mike Huckabee
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Huh. Apparently, WE need to spend something like 2.5 million to paint a friggen water tower.
great everything for Maine is in either Portland or Lewiston
not gonna help my area at all
Every sector should grow: When economists Jared Bernstein and Christina Romer came up with the widely-used estimate of 3 to 4 million jobs that would be created or maintained by the stimulus, they used the rule of thumb that a 1 percent jump in GDP would correspond to a 1 million jobs jump in employment. Of the 3.7 million jobs estimated to be created or retained, you've probably heard the most about construction and healthcare jobs. But when jobs are created in those sectors, jobs are also created indirectly in other sectors. Businesses can spend, and workers can pay for things like hotel rooms, clothing and furniture. So, even the infrastructure portion of the bill should indirectly benefit the other sectors, like hospitality and retail.
Union workers will benefit: This bill provides money to repave highways and reinforce bridges, as well as money that could be used to build wind turbines and renovate schools. Even the Environmental Protection Agency gets money to build green visitor centers at national parks and refuges. Those projects all mean work for occupations that have an above-average rate of unionization.
There will be white-collar work, too: Laurence Shatkin, a career expert who's authored multiple occupational guides, notes that one of the principles of the stimulus is that it's intended to create 90 percent of jobs in the private sector, as well as create jobs at all levels of the occupational strata. Even portions of the bill that would seem blue-collar heavy will offer variety, Shatkin says. For example, infrastructure spending will mean work for civil engineers and urban planners, as well as construction workers.
The unemployed will get help: While bent on job creation, the bill also provides relief for the unemployed. The stimulus pushes the unemployment benefits extension through the end of year, as well as boosts benefit payments by $25 a week. It also offers a tax deduction--taxpayers won't have to pay federal income tax on the first $2,400 they earn in unemployment benefits in 2009. About $25 billion is allocated to subsidizing 65 percent of COBRA insurance for unemployed workers as long as nine months. COBRA is a program that allows workers who have lost their jobs to maintain their health insurance by paying a hefty 102 percent of their premium.
If we had the internet when FDR started building the highways, sewers, public golf courses and other infra structure, I bet the right would be posting the same complaints.
Eight years of your part rule and our economy sucks. Besides your tax cut mantra what else would you do to get US back on track?
The current leaders of the RNC (Really Nothing Contrstructive) are more concerned about party than their constituents. If they can make US fail by fighting Obama on everything he proposes, they will consider themselves a success.
Bitch about Pelosi and Reid when you have a Boehner and McConnel in your own eye.
At least Arnie and Charlie (both polititicians) realize that their people are in dire shape and need help even if it comes from the Devil or the Democratic President.
Jindal said he would pick and choose what they took in Louisianna. If he or any other R gov turns down the money, they will not be there long.
Over 1,000 projects, Chicago not listed! Only 2 towns from my county. Weird.
Check out this site... it's amazing. I can see what my town is going to spend money on and it looks like 70% of it is crap!
Feb. 21 - Stimulus Watch - State By State Listing - News - Mike Huckabee
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Check out this site... it's amazing. I can see what my town is going to spend money on and it looks like 70% of it is crap!
Feb. 21 - Stimulus Watch - State By State Listing - News - Mike Huckabee
Stimulus Watch: Keeping an Eye on Economic Recovery Spending
Huh. Apparently, WE need to spend something like 2.5 million to paint a friggen water tower.
Have you ever hung hundreds of feet above the ground painting something from a bos'n's chair?
I have.
$100 an hour seems far too cheap when the wind start to blow.
MAN!
West (by GOD!) Virginia is getting seriously screwed.
That or everything in West Virginia that needs doing is already done. I don't know, you tell me.
Is West Virginia completed?
