Just a few of the goodies in the stimulus bill:

– $79 billion for State Fiscal Stabilization Fund
– $89 billion for Medicaid
– $30 billion for COBRA insurance extension
– $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
– $20 billion for food stamps
– $150 million for the Smithsonian
– $34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters
– $500 million for improvement projects for National Institutes of Health facilities
– $44 million for repairs to Department of Agriculture headquarters
– $350 million for Agriculture Department computers
– $88 million to help move the Public Health Service into a new building
– $448 million for constructing a new Homeland Security Department headquarters
– $600 million to convert the federal auto fleet to hybrids
– $450 million for NASA (carve-out for “climate-research missions”)
– $600 million for NOAA (carve-out for “climate modeling”)
– $1 billion for the Census Bureau
– $4.5 billion for U.S. Army Corps of Engineers
– $850 million for Amtrak
– $87 million for a polar icebreaking ship
– $1.7 billion for the National Park System
– $55 million for Historic Preservation Fund
– $7.6 billion for “rural community advancement programs”
– $150 million for agricultural-commodity purchases
– $150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish”

They forgot the dog parks and the hooker retraining program, however.

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