Feb
14
Correction… I just picked up the latest newspaper, and it says our state is to get $7 billion in stimulus. That’s $3 billion more than yesterday’s paper claimed. Evidently, and happily, we are getting more than the original estimates. Hey… good news for us! I am now eager to see the recovery.gov web site up and running, so I can see more details. The paper says we are getting our stimulus as follows:
- $2 billion toward Medicaid
- $813 million in stabilization funds (to restore cuts in schools)
- $2 billion for Hanford cleanup
- $492.2 billion for highway, road and bridge construction
- $176 million for transit programs
- $100 million for housing (hurray!)
- $69.2 million for sewer and waste treatment
- $60,7 million to weatherize houses
- $176 million to aid students from low-income families
- And various miscellaneous expenditures.
Our senators tried to get us more money for green energy, but got rebuffed, they say.
Hmmmm…. what if only those districts and states whose representatives supported and voted for the stimulus would get the money? Would that have changed some republican minds??? Something to think about…
