Talking Points 2-4-09
1. SO, HOW MUCH MONEY ARE WE ACTUALLY TALKING ABOUT HERE? If you
started right now and spent a million dollars every day until you had
spent the principle amount of the Stimulus Bill ($825 billion) today,
you would spend your last penny on June 17, 4395. Well, you wouldn't.
Your descendants 82 generations from now would. If someone had started
spending a million dollars a day starting on January 1, 1 AD, they
would still have over $138 billion dollars left and a little over 380
more years to go.
(Sources:
1 Year = 365.424199 Days
http://aa.usno.navy.mil/data/docs/JulianDate.php
http://www.ancestry.com/learn/library/article.aspx?article=11152
(Thanks @jimmiebjr for your brilliance)
2. WHAT ARE THEY SPENDING ALL THAT MONEY ON? Here is a partial list
of some of the most amazingly wasteful spending you've ever seen.
*$600 million for hybrid vehicles for federal employees (That's
roughly 600 per state)
*$448 million to construct the Dept. of Homeland Security headquarters
(where are they housed now?), and a whopping $248 million for
furniture once it's built (that's a lot of desks and chairs).
*$2 billion (notice the B) to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero messions
coal power plant that the Dept of Energy DEFUNDED because the project
was inefficient
*$6 billion (again the B) to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings
*$160 million for "paid volunteers" (WTW?) at the Corporation for
Nat'l & Community Service (Who?)
Whole list can be found here:
http://michellemalkin.com/2009/02/03/generational-theft-act-fun-facts-from-sen-coburns-office/
(Thanks Michelle Malkin)
3. IT'S TIME FOR THIS TO END. No pork. No compromises. No turncoats.
This bill cannot be salvaged. It is poorly written and has too much
waste. It must be voted down by any means available, including
filibuster. John McCain sent out an e-mail asking Republicans to sign
a petition against this bill. Let us join him (AND hold his feet to
the fire) and encourage all Republicans to abandon this bill.
While it's been fun bandying with the liberals and the staff who
answers their phones, now is the time to focus like a lazer beam on
the Republican Senators and make sure their heads aren't turned by all
the sweetheart deals the Dems are trying to woo them with.
Call them all. Call them often.
http://moveovermoveon.posterous.com/senate-phonefax-lists-we-mail
And then call them again.
4. NEW TOOLS & TECHNOLOGY. We are blessed beyond measure to have Aaron
Day on our team. Aaron has come up with am amazing tool for us. He and
his team have come up with a way to give every American a "line item
veto on the stimulus package." Go to this site
http://www.daylightnetwork.com/senate-stimulus. Read the continually
updated, ever changing parts of the stimulus package. Comment on it
and/or rate it. Let the senators know what you think. Please check
this site out and pass it around to everyone you know.
Thanks for your hard work. Vote may be as early as Friday. Don't stop
now. As Sean Hannity said on his show today "It is working."
