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To: Brumar89 who wrote (5000)	2/15/2009 10:33:00 AM
From: RetiredNow	2 Recommendations Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 86356

OK. Here are the things I think are worthwhile from this website: ft.com * $71B in employment retraining, student loans, health & human services, and education * $286B (212+74) in tax cuts to businesses and consumers, including an AMT patch * $90B in state budget relief to prevent cut backs in basic social services like road construction and police expenditures * $51B on energy and water, including smart grid, renewable energy, and energy innovation * $21B on health IT * $6B unspecified spending on broadband penetration * $16B on wireless broadband, NSF science R&D, and state and local law enforcement The total of the above is $541B or 69% of the bill. The rest is too aggregated for me to understand whether I would approve or not. I'm against outright welfare payments or things that don't have a return. One thing I'd like to see is the executive summary of this thing on the web before Obama signs it. That is a disappoint to me that it's not available for public comment before it becomes law. We live in an age where public comment should become more a part of the process, now that we have the Internet. To a major extent, the way laws are created today, by a bunch of nincompoops in Congress is archaic and beneath our level of intelligence.