We've been stimulated!

[Capbyrd]

39 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

So, all of us? Both parties are guilty of this and both voted for it. Few of them even had time to read the 5,593 page bill.  

• "$500 million  earmarked for Israeli defense purchases, including to equip the Iron Dome missile defense system."-- which party do you think put that in there? 

Quick google search and I few -not saying this is all.

• $500 million  earmarked for Israeli defense purchases, including to equip the Iron Dome missile defense system.
• $250 million over five years for Palestinian economic aid, which was pushed by New York Democratic Rep. Nita Lowey.
• $10 million for “gender programs” in Pakistan 
• $1.3 billion is to remain available until Sept. 30, 2022, and should be made available for assistance for Egypt.

I'll round up to $2 billion.  That's .14% of the total $1.4T dollar spending bill.  So I'm sorry if I can't get too angry about this. You could eliminate all foreign aid it wouldn't even begin to address the issue. 

Please notice the decimal. That's not 14%...

 

With the covid package the total package was 2.3 trillion.   

Outside of what was just passed, Rand Paul's annual Festival report listed 54 billion in waste spending in 2020.  And that was just the stuff he reported, like grants for butthole identification databases, and probably leaves out a lot of other wasteful spending.  

 

[gregintenn]

26 minutes ago, E4 No More said:

I call it a revolution, but people who object to the spending are too comfortable in [insert reason here] to do that. For me it's being risk-adverse where my family is concerned. 

I'm not sure the numbers are there yet to make such a thing successful.

[E4 No More]

Just now, gregintenn said:

I'm not sure the numbers are there yet to make such a thing successful.

I agree, but I do believe that we are in the beginning of a cold civil war.

[gregintenn]

11 minutes ago, E4 No More said:

I agree, but I do believe that we are in the beginning of a cold civil war.

Oh, there are plenty of unhappy folks among us. Just not to the extent of giving their life fighting a sitting government.

[Erik88]

2 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

With the covid package the total package was 2.3 trillion.   

Outside of what was just passed, Rand Paul's annual Festival report listed 54 billion in waste spending in 2020.  And that was just the stuff he reported, like grants for butthole identification databases, and probably leaves out a lot of other wasteful spending.  

 

I'm not clicking that link from my work computer...

As for the waste, my point earlier was specific to the foreign aid comments I've been hearing. Compared to $2.3T, what we sent abroad is nothing. People kept harping on that one issue as if that ALONE was the reason we should be outraged. 

[Capbyrd]

11 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

I'm not clicking that link from my work computer...

As for the waste, my point earlier was specific to the foreign aid comments I've been hearing. Compared to $2.3T, what we sent abroad is nothing. People kept harping on that one issue as if that ALONE was the reason we should be outraged. 

The truth is most people wouldn't have known about the contents of the OmniBus spending bill if it wasn't for the covid package being attached to it.  It's nice that they are finally seeing what a select few have already been seeing for decades.  


And there is nothing in the link that would get one in trouble other than the word analprint.  

[E4 No More]

14 minutes ago, Erik88 said:

I'm not clicking that link from my work computer...

As for the waste, my point earlier was specific to the foreign aid comments I've been hearing. Compared to $2.3T, what we sent abroad is nothing. People kept harping on that one issue as if that ALONE was the reason we should be outraged. 

Well, I'm not at all happy with the money they are sending inside the state like New York's MTA system.

[RED333]

16 hours ago, Capbyrd said:

like grants for butthole identification databases,

This is so far out there, shaking my head, we are so screwed!!!

[krunchnik]

13 hours ago, RED333 said:

This is so far out there, shaking my head, we are so screwed!!!

Why would I need a toilet that recognizes my butt-mine already does-been using it for the better part of 20 years now and I assume it knows me by now.

[GlockSpock]

13 hours ago, RED333 said:

This is so far out there, shaking my head, we are so screwed!!!

To be frank, I’m not sure any of us could truly know whether we are/have been screwed until we submit ourselves to the butthole database analyzer.

[Grayfox54]

I walked out to the mail box a little while ago and SURPRISE! SURPRISE! There was a U.S. Treasury check for $600.  With the first round I also got my check by mail, but it was a couple of months behind those with direct deposit. I sure wasn't expecting to get mine this soon. It seems that the government is becoming even faster and more efficient at giving away our tax money. I'm not sure if that's good or bad? 

[Alleycat72]

3 hours ago, Grayfox54 said:

I walked out to the mail box a little while ago and SURPRISE! SURPRISE! There was a U.S. Treasury check for $600.  With the first round I also got my check by mail, but it was a couple of months behind those with direct deposit. I sure wasn't expecting to get mine this soon. It seems that the government is becoming even faster and more efficient at giving away our tax money. I'm not sure if that's good or bad? 

I have 4 kids. They got 600 also.