Since February of 2009 when President Barack Obama began his aggressive push for stimulus into the American economy, he focused on one core area — infrastructure.
In fact, in his stimulus speech before Congress in 2009, his States of the Union in 2010, 2011, and 2012, and his Jobs Act speech of late 2011, the President repeated referred to spending government money to create jobs to fix America’s infrastructure.
Congressman Jim Jordan (R-OH), leader of the Republican Study Committee, is confirmed to be leaning toward supporting the plan. His public pronouncements that he is leaning toward supporting the plan is leading House conservatives as a whole to support this new stimulus plan — a stimulus plan to create jobs fixing and expanding America’s infrastructure.
The plan will most likely necessitate a federal bailout of the Highway Trust Fund, which is typically funded through the gas tax and is used to pay for highway projects. But Obama’s new stimulus busts the cap on the trust fund and, like social security, gets into general fund money to pay for the spending binge.
With the House bill, as is typical of Barack Obama’s legislation, spending will outpace income over the next five years by $69.6 billion. Moreso, as is also typical of President Obama’s stimulus schemes, Washington would retain the bulk of control, even though the money would be going to state transportation projects. Federal strings and federal money will come with the legislation.
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First, they chickened out on holding the debt limit down. Now they’re going to go along with yet another useless, debt-busting stimulus?! These are the RINOs we need to boot out of Congress.
Whether they have a D or an R by their name, it makes no difference. They’re still part of the same gang of thieves, robber barons, that are taking us and our next 3 generations of progeny to the cleaners financially speaking. Why should they give a damn. It’s not their money nor their worry since they are temporary politicians most of whom will be dead or left to die by the death panels which they will have inherited as a result of their stupidity, selfishness and overall dereliction of duty when first allowing the usurper to go without a constitutional challenge as to his eligibility, to be elected and to be allowed to do whatever he desires to transform (read destroy) America with impunity.
You are so right and I have always said taxes were what they robbed the people of and they do it without a gun and they call it legal and taxes. Years ago when I was working for the state they had a little paper put out by a radio station and there was a joke that was a man got his paycheck and all he found was a piece of paper with his deductions on it and another that said you owe us so he went and talked to his boss and wanted to know where his check was and the boss told him he did not make enough to pay his taxes so he still owed them. Never thought that could happen but my daughter is mandated almost every other day and when she got her check this past month it was real short so she took her check stub to the payroll and they told her that because of the amount she worked and the money she made it put her in a higher tax bracket and if they don’t do the extra shift after 3 notices they get fired. Can’t win for losing.
I hope the people who voted for that illegal Muslim are happy with where he is taking this country and the taxes he is raising when he said he would not. That man can not tell the truth if his life depended on it. The Treasure of TX said anyone who voted for Obama were maggots and they deserve what he does but Im sorry the ones who didn’t vote for that illegal do not deserve what he is doing. He is illegal and that is why he is keeping people from his records and birth certificate. Like he said when he came back from the trip he just took out of the country if the media insisted on going after his birth certificate they would pay. To me I do not have a president and Obama is not my president because he is illegal and nothing he has signed into law is legal and once they prove it he will be out.
If he were a legal citizen why did he get grants to go to college as a citizen from another country, who was born in another country and he got grants to attend college (the best colleges) and he has never had a job, he has never had to balance a budget, he has never done anything. He didn’t want to get married but Jesse Jackson told him to get married because it would help him in his run in government. That was in the book the Amateur by Klein. After the tax that went into effect in January a woman wrote complaining that she voted for Obama but she could not live on what she was making and now it was going to be even harder. Don’t cry to me because you voted for that illegal Muslim. That is what I answered to her and you are so right it does not matter if they are a R or a D they are all out for the same thing. Power and money and to hell with the people who voted for them. I write to the Congressmen from this state and I get the same answer every time. How good Obama is doing, how Obama care was the best thing for the country but when I asked if it was so good for the people and the country why didn’t all of the elected officials and their family use it also. Guess you know they didn’t have the balls to answer that one, Have a good week end