Not getting any coverage this week is the stimulus bill and the testimony on it. Here is an exchange between Congressman Camps and some staffer;

“Can you tell me Mr. Barthold, how many jobs will be created as a result of this legislation?” Camp asked. Barthold replied, “In short, Mr. Camp, I can’t.” Camp then pressed Barthold to clarify his position, “So we don’t have an estimate of the number of jobs this would create either private sector or public? We don’t have any estimate of the economic effect that this legislation would have on our economy, whether it would create any growth in our economy at all? We don’t have that data before the committee today?” Barthold then nodded his head and shrugged.”

So we are being sold a bill of goods that we need to spend another $850B to “stimulate the economy” and they cant name even damn job it will create. This “stimulus” is a boon doggle of epic proportions just waiting to be forced down our throats.

HOPEANDCHANGEHOPEANDCHANGEHOPEANDCHANGE.

The Post’s editorial about new nuclear power plant should be combined with the alleged stimulus bill. Here’s a good use of our children’s money: The Post says a new nuclear power plant will cost $6 billion. 6 times 50 states would be $300 billion. If we built each state a new nuke plant it would result in construction jobs, lower electricity rates, reduced air pollution and enough power to actually charge the batteries on all those new plug-in cars liberals want to sell and vastly reduce our dependence of foreign oil. It would be a $300 billion dollar expenditure that would keep on giving.

Si a number of people covered the exchange so I disagree with you about that.

But you are right on the issue itself. People are hurting no doubt. Maybe government should help in some way. It is pretty darn clear that no one has a good idea of whether this pachage will help any more than the bailout package. At some point we have to stop printing money. My fear is that the Obama administration will do little more than try to spend there way out of this thing. I bet a lot of spending will be pork barrell spending.

Maida Coleman still doesn’t have enough signatures for her run as an Independant for Mayor? Is she even trying to get signatures? If so, where?

Did she really want to run or is she waiting on the job offer to come?

The debate on the stimulus is heating up, with working people demanding congress act in a way that helps them while Republicans like MO Senator Kit Bond sitting back and talk about tax cuts. In many way the choice has never been clearer to me; we can either provide working families that are hurting money through programs like food stamps which get spent at our local Schnucks, or we can just give money away through more tax cuts with no requirements that it be spent to help people.
Personally, I’ll side with the public servants fighting for justice in the streets over an old Senator in an office any day.

Richard:

Excellent points… what a shame facts get in the way.

The 300 billion ‘tax cuts’ are due to go to people in the lowest 10% of income in the form of increased EITC giving tax cuts to those that actually pay no federal income tax.

The other 700 billion is to go to things like a ‘mob museum’ in Las Vegas, and to ACORN, and to states (about 250 billion) that can’t balance their budgets.

As you know Missouri has and always does.

Oh, and this ‘jobs bill’ won’t create any jobs… take a look

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NtFwS2W3ITI&

tsquare you are right on the money. My DC source said Obama told Eric Cantor, Minority Whip, that they could not promise even one job from this stimulus and when Cantor said the GOP wanted take cuts, Obama said, “too bad, we won.” And how funny the AP keeps telling us what a unifier and centrist this guy is and how he wants to work with the opposition. My A$$!
Also, the stimulus bill also has lots of money for contraceptives. I hope the Democrats use them.

And for the lastest political truth news not reported in the PD, go to:

http://www.gatewaypundit.blogspot.com

Several St. Louis County mayors are calling for a smoking ban:

http://www.stltoday.com/stltoday/news/stories.nsf/stlouiscitycounty/story/60A3C2FB4B164C8C8625754A00004A68?OpenDocument

Do St. Louisans want a smoking ban? A 2007 survey by the Missouri Department of Health and Senior Services found that only 24.5 percent of St. Louis City residents favor banning smoking in bars and cocktail lounges. Support for such a ban in St. Louis County and St. Charles County is only slightly stronger at 30 and 31.2 percent. A ban on smoking in bars is favored by only 27.5 percent of Missourians overall. These local numbers line up with the latest Gallup Poll, which found that only 29 percent of Americans support a smoking ban in bars. This is pretty slim popular support for such a Draconian restriction of freedom and property rights.
http://www.scribd.com/doc/8831046/Data-7

Over the past four years since Odenwald’s attempted ban, bars and restaurants across St. Louis that want to continue to allow smoking, though already compliant with OSHA air quality standards, have voluntarily installed air filtration technology that can make their air cleaner than the air outdoors. These St. Louis venues don’t need a smoking ban. This talk of a smoking ban discourages their good efforts.

With the double swearing in, it is encouraging to see that there is some concern about the requirements that need to be met in order for him to legally take the seat in the oval office. Too bad they show very little concern for the most basic requirements that we have yet to know if he truly meets.