{"id":193147,"date":"2009-01-15T18:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/15\/stimulus-bill-draft-released-by-democrats-in-congress\/"},"modified":"2009-01-15T18:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-01-15T23:28:00","slug":"stimulus-bill-draft-released-by-democrats-in-congress","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/2009\/01\/15\/stimulus-bill-draft-released-by-democrats-in-congress\/","title":{"rendered":"Stimulus Bill Draft Released By Democrats in Congress"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>You can find the <a href=\"http:\/\/www.huffingtonpost.com\/2009\/01\/15\/stimulus-bill-draft-circu_n_158145.html\">full text<\/a> here.<\/p>\n<p>My quick take, is that I would like to see:<\/p>\n<ul>\n<li>More rail investment.<\/li>\n<li>More mass transit investment.<\/li>\n<li>That the $32 billion for, &#8220;to transform the nation&#8217;s energy transmission, distribution, and production systems by allowing for a smarter and better grid,&#8221; sounds like a giveaway to the electric utilities.<\/li>\n<li>The money for broad band should be better defined, so that it goes to public and cooperatively owned agencies and infrastructure only&#8230;.We already threw billions at the incumbent telcos in the late 1990s\/early 2000s with little in the way of results.<\/li>\n<li>Flood control is almost always a synonym for pork.<\/li>\n<li>The spending on schools should target the poorest districts.<\/li>\n<li>The increases in unemployment benefits are the most bang for the buck in generating economic activity, and the increase in food stamps is a close second.<\/li>\n<li>I think that the tax cuts are a lose.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>That&#8217;s based on a 15 minute read of the summary, though.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>You can find the full text here. My quick take, is that I would like to see: More rail investment. More mass transit investment. That the $32 billion for, &#8220;to transform the nation&#8217;s energy transmission, distribution, and production systems by allowing for a smarter and better grid,&#8221; sounds like a giveaway to the electric utilities. &hellip;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1038,998,973],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-193147","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-budget","category-congress","category-economy"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193147"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=193147"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/193147\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=193147"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=193147"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.panix.com\/~msaroff\/40years\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=193147"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}