Turns out that I stand to profit from it — to the tune of $350 billion. It’s buried in the fine print. Turns out nobody read the bill, so nobody knew. I just found out myself.
But it’s not the profit motive that changed my mind. I just had a change of heart. Also, I hate Chuck Schumer.
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If only it was that easy.
It still seems that the most practical stimulus would have been a year-long income/payroll-tax holiday.
AD - RtR/OS (3c43e7) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:20 pmBut, that would have made too much sense, and would preclude the gravy train for favored groups.
I’m praying this isn’t a spoof. I apparently will receive $100,000,000 for the purpose of studying zombies. As a bonus, I also will get free front-row seats at all Coldplay and Meatloaf concerts. No mention of when my unicorn will arrive, but hey, it’s a very complicated program.
Old Coot (who also wants DRJ back) (7721b8) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:21 pmEveryone should post their links so we can read it for ourselves.
Patterico (cc3b34) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:24 pmHere’s mine,
http://www.reason.com/stimulus/bills/HR1_48pxqM20090213202621.html#telecom
Dana (137151) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:27 pmEveryone should post links so the Congresscritters can read about what they voted for.
JD (09132b) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:30 pmMine rocks!
TLove Stimulus
TLove (012115) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:30 pmCompletely off topic, but Olbergasm is interviewing Jimmah Carter. I hurled. Violently.
JD (09132b) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:37 pmwould have been a year-long income/payroll-tax holiday.
When it comes to the Dems, always remember:
– business is evil, except…
Dmac (49b16c) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:38 pm– when it’s crony capitalism.
Dmac – That makes their cries of cronyism against Bush just so … Unintentionally ironic? Fatuous? Projection?
JD (09132b) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:47 pm…Changey!
Dmac (49b16c) — 2/13/2009 @ 5:52 pmhttp://www.reason.com/stimulus/bills/HR1_JRMn7k20090213213450.html#telecom
EW1(SG) (e27928) — 2/13/2009 @ 6:37 pmMy Own Private Stimulo
If this doesn’t work, I guess I’ll have to join ACORN.
Patricia (89cb84) — 2/13/2009 @ 7:28 pmComment by Patricia — 2/13/2009 @ 7:28 pm
Bawney Fwank??? So fitting! If I could have chosen one out of the many candidates, he’d be at the top of my list. That he continues to lie through his teeth about Fannie Mae is reprehensible,
”These two entities — Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac — are not facing any kind of financial crisis,” said Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, the ranking Democrat on the Financial Services Committee. ”The more people exaggerate these problems, the more pressure there is on these companies, the less we will see in terms of affordable housing.’
Dana (137151) — 2/13/2009 @ 7:40 pmYup, Bawney just epitomizes the whole mess. Hey, how about “all of the above”?
Patricia (89cb84) — 2/13/2009 @ 7:50 pmThat he continues to lie through his teeth about Fannie Mae is reprehensible,
Barney has teeth?
Uncle Pinky (834163) — 2/13/2009 @ 8:21 pmIs Barney the one that had a gay prostitute ring running in his DC condo?
JD (c6800b) — 2/13/2009 @ 8:27 pmHeteronormative racist. I denounce you for it.
Eric Blair (ec334b) — 2/13/2009 @ 8:55 pmI’ve joined the fun! Here’s my entry.
Bradley J. Fikes, C. O.R., who wants DRJ back! (0ea407) — 2/13/2009 @ 9:13 pmI made no judgements, Eric. Though the irony, it is staggering.
JD (c6800b) — 2/13/2009 @ 9:15 pmI was teasing.
Frank is a tool, in all senses of the term. At least he wasn’t as bad as Gerry Studds.
Yet even that didn’t bother voters. Who knew?
Honestly, I think it is the “D versus R trumps all issues” principle.
Eric Blair (ec334b) — 2/13/2009 @ 9:19 pmAnd it really did not bother the Dems. That is a pretty sick and twisted principle that they have.
JD (c6800b) — 2/13/2009 @ 9:22 pmThis one will actually work! I’ll bet I get funded.
Pablo (99243e) — 2/14/2009 @ 5:49 amHere’s mine. Does anyone have Chris Martin’s email address? I want to make sure he’s sending me those tickets.
Old Coot (who also wants DRJ back) (7721b8) — 2/14/2009 @ 8:21 am[…] H/t: Patterico. […]
damnum absque injuria » Getcher Stimulus Here (490ac4) — 2/15/2009 @ 5:20 amHere’s mine.
Xrlq (62cad4) — 2/15/2009 @ 5:24 amHey, the UN wants a piece of the pie. The World Bank wants one percent of our stimulus.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 2/15/2009 @ 8:38 amOh, I loved this!
I do hope that, as a fiscal conservative, I requested only $12,529,385.50, because I don’t wish to burden future generations too much.
The fiscally conservative Dana (556f76) — 2/15/2009 @ 9:40 am[…] Hat tip to Patterico! Category: Politics | Comment (RSS) | Trackback […]
Common Sense Political Thought » Blog Archive » OK, the Porkulus Plan does have something good in it now! (73d96f) — 2/15/2009 @ 9:46 amPablo, Joe Biden is already out of Congress, so I guess yours worked! 🙂
The amused Dana (556f76) — 2/15/2009 @ 9:53 amHere’s mine.
John Hitchcock (fb941d) — 2/15/2009 @ 9:59 amMy good fiend and co-blogger Yorkshire has suggested that we start referring to this as defecate spending. Somehow, it seems appropriate.
The blogger Dana (556f76) — 2/15/2009 @ 9:59 amHmmm, did I forget a letter in the word “friend?” 🙂
The typo-laden Dana (556f76) — 2/15/2009 @ 10:01 amEven I have to hold my nose when I see Schumer’s duplicitous face on the TV, I still haven’t –and won’t– forgiven him for pushing through Mukasey. I wrote to him and told him so shortly after he pulled that bit of grotesque politicking and he better be worried about my vast and growing campaign to get him voted out of the Senate. The Green candidate is looking better and better all the time.
But, Pat $350 Billion? What, you couldn’t make do with a measly $100 Billion. Oink oink.
Sheesh….
Peter (e70d1c) — 2/15/2009 @ 10:07 amMy good fiend and co-blogger Yorkshire has suggested that we start referring to this as defecate spending. Somehow, it seems appropriate. From Dana
Lately I have felt like that. Yorkshire
Yorkshire (4e0dda) — 2/15/2009 @ 10:46 amComment by Yorkshire — 2/15/2009 @ 10:46 am
Well, it certainly is descriptive of the manner in which our “leaders” treat us, the great unwashed.
AD - RtR/OS (a4db8f) — 2/15/2009 @ 10:49 amA lovely article concerning the Stimulus Bill, I simply cannot, not share with my peeps down on the PP network. (Soon to spend that sweet $350 Billion to buy the entire internets.)
AM I crazy, or wasn’t the Obama presidency pronounced dead just days ago? Obama had “all but lost control of the agenda in Washington,” declared Newsweek on Feb. 4 as it wondered whether he might even get a stimulus package through Congress. “Obama Losing Stimulus Message War” was the headline at Politico a day later. At the mostly liberal MSNBC, the morning host, Joe Scarborough, started preparing the final rites. Obama couldn’t possibly eke out a victory because the stimulus package was “a steaming pile of garbage.”
Peter (e70d1c) — 2/15/2009 @ 11:08 amPassing a steaming pile of garbage through Congress, which your own party controls is viewed as historic, or a victory? The bar sure has been lowered.
Boogity boogity boogity … Let’s go racing!
JD (c2765f) — 2/15/2009 @ 11:20 amThe Next Harry Potter Book
Wonder if they’ll vote on this
bruce (71fe0f) — 2/16/2009 @ 9:58 pm