https://www.zerohedge.com/poli...ion-spending-package

As Congress prepares to pass a $900 billion COVID-19 stimulus bill rolled into a consolidated appropriations package - with funding for assistance for households and businesses, along with vaccine distribution and other pandemic-related measures, the bill also includes a ton of pork per usual.

We already know about the $600 checks for each adult and dependent. This time, however, 'mixed-status' households where eligible citizens live with illegal immigrants, will not only receive payments - they can retroactively claim benefits after being left out of the last round.

The bill also includes $300 per week in enhanced unemployment benefits, and would extend unemployment to 50 weeks for both state and federal programs, vs. the standard 26 weeks.
Illustration via WSJ.com

And now, on to the pork... which includes billions to foreign countries, US military weapons purchases which go above and beyond their budgets, $40 million for the Kennedy Center, and nearly $200 million so that federal HIV/AIDS workers overseas can buy cars and car insurance, among other things.

FOREIGN HANDOUTS:

A minimum of $3.3 billion in grants to Israel.

Also included is $453 million to Ukraine, on top of the $400 million Trump eventually released. No word on how much of that goes to the 'big guy.'

$10 million for "gender programs" in Pakistan.

$1.3 billion to Egypt, and $700 million to Sudan.

$135 million to Burma, $85.5 million to Cambodia, $1.4 billion for an "Asia Reassurance Initiative Act," and $130 million to Nepal.

BOMBS AWAY

$4 billion for Navy weapons procurement, $2 billion for Space Force and $2 billion for Air Force missiles.

BUREAUCRATIC BONANZA AND OTHER MALARKEY

$208 million to upgrade the Census Bureau's computer systems (which couldn't have waited until the next count in 2030?).

$40 million for the Kennedy Center, and funding to discourage teenagers from drinking and hooking up.

$193 million for federal HIV/AIDS workers to buy cars and car insurance overseas, and a feminist museum.

Funding for a commission to educate consumers "about the dangers associated with using or storing portable fuel containers for flammable liquids near an open flame." (What?)

Just remember, $600 is a significant amount...

Also removing the decades old ban on inmates from receiving Pell grants to earn a college degree. Not people released form jail. Current inmates in the system.

I'm glad somebody started a thread on this...
It's funny, a $1 trillion stimulus bill was a really big deal in 2008 when Obama did the porkulous, but today Congress is set to spend $2.5 trillion (combined with the "omnibus spending bill") and no one bats an eye.
No one in the media even asks where it's coming from...

If I recall on the first round of handouts, the Kennedy Center received 25 mil and the next day laid off most of the staff and kicked back 5 mil to the DNC. I should of gotten into politics instead of being a working shlub.

Stimulus my ass.

Who is going to pay for this down the road?

House Voting Today on 5,600 Page Pork-Filled COVID Package No-One Has Read, McConnell Wants Unanimous Consent...

Good grief the UniParty is in full swing and they don’t even care what our opinion is about this massive $2.5 TRILLION (approximated because it hasn’t been scored) COVID/Omnibus spending bill that totals over 5,600 pages.

The actual 5,600 page bill wasn’t populated for public review until shortly after noon this afternoon and staff had an issue putting it on-line. Incredibly, and in keeping with the previous approach preferred by congress, the House plans on voting on this bill today; and Mitch McConnell wants the Senate to pass it by unanimous consent (no recorded votes).

My rough review shows an approximately 70/30 split on the $900+ billion COVID package. Approximately 30 percent +/- of the bill will actually help working class families and businesses on Main Street. Approximately 70 percent of the bill will go to political donors, special interests, environmental lobbyists, K-Street groups who wrote the bill, foreign interests, Wall Street and corporate beneficiaries. [Scour the Bill Here]
https://rules.house.gov/sites/...133SA-RCP-116-68.pdf

https://theconservativetreehou...s-unanimous-consent/

Why in the world do I bother even working?

These cocksuckers.

I'd like to take that 5,600 pages and cram straight up everyone of their asses.

Coronavirus Stimulus Bill Funds Hundreds of Millions in Aid to Palestinians

https://www.breitbart.com/midd...aid-to-palestinians/

The coronavirus relief bill released Monday includes $250 million in investment aid for the Palestinians and for encouraging Israeli-Palestinian dialogue in a provision titled the “Nita M. Lowey Middle East Partnership for Peace Act of 2020.”

The provision, named for retiring Rep. Nita Lowey (D-NY), is buried deep within the nearly 6,000-page legislative text.

Citing economic stagnation in the Palestinian Territories, and the potential for economic development to encourage peace, the Lowey Act would spend $50 million per year for the next five years. A version of the act passed the House in July.

The act would create the “People-to-People Partnership for Peace Fund,” run by the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to “provide funding for projects to help build the foundation for peaceful co-existence between Israelis and Palestinians and for a sustainable two-state solution.”

It would also support projects that foster dialogue between Arab and Jewish citizens of Israel. The fund would have an advisory board of 13 members, plus two members “who are representatives of foreign governments or international organizations for renewable periods of 3 years.”

The act would also create the “Joint Investment for Peace Initiative,” which would provide investment funding for “projects that contribute to the development of the Palestinian private sector economy in the West Bank and Gaza.”

The act prohibits the funding from being used to aid any foreign government, including the Palestinian Authority and the Palestine Liberation Organization (PLO). It also prohibits funds from being given to any group deemed to be involved in, or encouraging, terrorist activity.

Congress limited funding to the Palestinian Authority in 2018 under the Taylor Force Act, which prevents U.S. taxpayer dollars from going to the Palestinian government while it continues to pay stipends to terrorists and their families.

President Donald Trump has also cut other forms of U.S. funding to the Palestinians. His Middle East peace plan, introduced earlier this year, provides for a two-state solution, on condition that the Palestinian state be demilitarized and reject terrorism.

Probably for the same reason I do---- No good connection to the fuckety ups!!

Fuck me. There’s not enough booze and drugs to make this seem like a good idea.

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Originally posted by roberth:
Who is going to pay for this down the road

No one. There's no chance we'll ever pay this off or even try to pay this off. We owe $27 Trillion and counting.

The chickens will come home to roost soon.

A typical gov't pattern - a spending package with the selling point "for the good of the people". But politicians' pet projects, which often involve their cronies (who I am sure provide some compensation to the politicians) usually stand at the front of the line.

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Originally posted by braillediver:

quote:

Originally posted by roberth:
Who is going to pay for this down the road

No one. There's no chance we'll ever pay this off or even try to pay this off. We owe $27 Trillion and counting.

The chickens will come home to roost soon.

But I think we will get burned, one way or another. I understand John Adams once commented along the lines of "there are two ways to conquer a nation, by the sword or by debt".

I think the next collapse will make the Great Depression look like a summer picnic. We haven't even begun to feel the covid19 economic impact.

I think if you have any cash, you better spend it quick because it will not be worth anything soon...
Thanks goodness, I'm poor....

I've said for years that any real stimulus would be to just send every net payer of income tax a check. Sure, some people will piss it away, but at least that's a choice, far better than sitting by while the government does it.

Also, the bill has not been signed yet.

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Originally posted by egregore:
I've said for years that any real stimulus would be to just send every net payer of income tax a check. Sure, some people will piss it away, but at least that's a choice, far better than sitting by while the government does it.

Government can waste money 1000x faster than we regular peeps can.

Well, I’m with Balze on this one. What a bunch of crap. $40 million to the Kennedy Center? What a crock of SHIT!

The middle half of the big pile is COVID, the top quarter is the entire 1.4 trillion annual spending bill.