We, the Dems, in an election year need to start fighting this bullcrap! The republican governors are taking credit for what the stimulus has done in their states. It's time for us to take ownership of what this administration has done. Yes - the unemployment numbers are still in the tank - but - Obama and Biden have done alot more than they are getting credit for. AND one thing you NEVER hear about in the news is about fraud in the stimulus spending. Sheriff Biden has done an outstanding job. (thank you to Randi Rhodes for bringing that up yesterday)
Now for some facts:
1. The stimulus has cut taxes for 95% of working Americans, bailed out every state, hustled record amounts of unemployment benefits and other aid to struggling families and funded more than 100,000 projects to upgrade roads, subways, schools, airports, military bases and much more...I don't know about where you live, but where I am there are roads torn up all over....I have even cussed the Stimulus bill when I was in a hurry:)
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about one-sixth of the total cost, is an all-out effort to exploit the crisis to make green energy, green building and green transportation real; launch green manufacturing industries; computerize a pen-and-paper health system; promote data-driven school reforms; and ramp up the research of the future.
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the Recovery Act is the most ambitious energy legislation in history, converting the Energy Department into the world's largest venture-capital fund. It's pouring $90 billion into clean energy, including unprecedented investments in a smart grid; energy efficiency; electric cars; renewable power from the sun, wind and earth; cleaner coal; advanced biofuels; and factories to manufacture green stuff in the U.S. The act will also triple the number of smart electric meters in our homes, quadruple the number of hybrids in the federal auto fleet and finance far-out energy research through a new government incubator modeled after the Pentagon agency that fathered the Internet.
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tenfold increase in funding to expand access to broadband and an effort to sequence more than 2,300 complete human genomes — when only 34 were sequenced with all previous aid. There's $8 billion for a high-speed passenger rail network, the boldest federal transportation initiative since the interstate highways. There's $4.35 billion in Race to the Top grants to promote accountability in public schools, perhaps the most significant federal education initiative ever — it's already prompted 35 states and the District of Columbia to adopt reforms to qualify for the cash. There's $20 billion to move health records into the digital age, which should reduce redundant tests, dangerous drug interactions and errors caused by doctors with chicken-scratch handwriting.
Read more:
http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,2013683,00.html#ixzz0xvzuwPtLBoth Arizona and California have gotten funding for the largest Solar Plants in the country. SOLAR - Green Energy Plants that need to be CONSTRUCTED, and then have workers to RUN and Maintain these plants.
With so much emphasis on Green Energy - do you think it is possible that sleezeballs like the Koch Brothers are a tad bit nervous & are doing everything in their power to bring this administration down??? Don't fall for it! WE DEMS HAVE ALOT TO BE PROUD OF! No Obama hasn't been the most progressive President on every issue, but you do need to give credit where credit is due...imho.
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