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5. February 2009, 02:56:25
Papa Zoom 
Subject: Pelosi's idea of what should be included in the stimulus package:
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal
power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last
year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
• $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.

$75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State
Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing
facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

5. February 2009, 12:33:06
Bwild 
Subject: Re: Pelosi's idea of what should be included in the stimulus package:
Artful Dodger:
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program....
feds are giving out iou's for the coupon program.

6. February 2009, 06:55:54
Papa Zoom 
Subject: Re: Pelosi's idea of what should be included in the stimulus package:
Bwild:  And Nancy Pelosi stands before the press and says that Americans are losing 500 million jobs a month.  Um, there aren't that many people living in the US. Let's see, there are 305,758,372.  Kinda like democrats that vote.  More vote than are registered.  More are registered than the entire population of any given State.  So at least her math is consistent!

6. February 2009, 07:21:34
Bwild 
Subject: Re: Pelosi's idea of what should be included in the stimulus package:
Artful Dodger:the whole thing is a joke.  push push push by the democrats......then we'll fgure out what to do with it. it should have a name change from economic stimulas to baracks allowance.

6. February 2009, 07:23:52
Papa Zoom 
Subject: Re: Pelosi's idea of what should be included in the stimulus package:
Bwild: Or Pelosi's Payoff. 

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