Senate Recovery Bill Text
PDF of the Senate Version — S. 336.
The Huffington Post has an embeddable copy of the bill (via docstoc) at their site, and they are asking for volunteers to compare the Senate Bill and HB1 as passed to begin a full scale search for the differences. If you have time and the inclination, go over and signup.
Provided to make sure that readers here know how to access this Bill to read it for themselves — and compare their own reading against the GOP talking points that are probably on the transom now.
I’m busy picking the dingleberries
As an adder to comparing the GOP talking points, here is a reference cited by Rachel Maddow that gives an analysis showing the “bang for the buck” for different categories of stimulus spending:
http://www.economy.com/mark-zandi/documents/Economic_Stimulus_House_Plan_012109.pdf
Check out Table 2, from which a couple of examples are:
1. $1.00 tax cut = $1.01 economic activity
2. $1.00 infrastructure = $1.53 economic activity
3. $1.00 food stamps = $1.74 economic activity
Why then do the Repubs want to cut food stamps and infrastructure and load up with tax cuts?
It’s all Reaganesque ideological garbage with little to nothing dealing with reality. Yet this is what this nation still has to deal with in order to effectively attack this most serious crisis facing us and the globe, all of which started right here at home. In my view, the Dems have already compromised too much! Hopefully the House-Senate reconcilation will restore some of the serious Senate cuts.