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Senate stimulus plan would provide jobs for up to 300,000 illegal aliens - 02/04/09
The U.S. Senate is always looking out for you, provided that you want billions of dollars from the stimulus plan to be spent giving a paycheck to illegal aliens. See this for the details from Robert Rector of the Heritage Foundation:
The Senate stimulus bill would provide roughly $104 billion in funding for a variety of construction projects including highways, schools, and renovation of public housing. This funding will be spread over five to seven years. Normal government estimates indicate that each $1 billion spent on construction will create around 19,500 construction jobs, each lasting...
Stimulus: Leadership Conference on Civil Rights may get up to $90 million - 02/04/09
Under the Senate version of the stimulus plan, the Leadership Conference on Civil Rights may get up to $90 million for helping with the switch from analog to digital television.
From page 38 at http://readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=s336_012709&page=38 (S.336 (S.1) Senate Democrats Bill Text 1/27):
Jared Polis: gender Marxism for the stimulus bill - 01/30/09
Jared Polis is a dot-com multi-millionaire who went into politics, first as the Vice-Chairman of the Colorado State Board of Education and now as a Congressman from Colorado. In the first job in 2005 he collaborated with the Mexican government to produce a state-sponsored guide for illegal aliens. That was so successful that the next year that government gave him their highest award for foreigners.
In his present capacity, he offers "Remember the ladies", a plea to include women in the stimulus plan (link). While there's nothing in there quite as salient as the recent remarks from Robert...
Stimulus boondoggle: Los Angeles wants $7 billion for largely worthless projects (GOP stupidity) - 01/29/09
See this list of "shovel-ready" projects on L.A.'s wish list for the stimulus plan: link. That's helped reify for me just how much of a boondoggle it's going to be. Find your own city here: usmayors.org/mainstreeteconomicrecovery
For one small example, $800,000 to retrofit lights on the L.A. River, when a) the current lights seem to be working just fine, b) few people go there at night unless they're heavily armed, c) it can probably be done for much less, and d) it would only employ six people.
While some of the other projects listed would employ large numbers of people, none of them...
Illegal aliens can get cash payments under stimulus package (ITIN numbers) UPDATE: maybe not - 01/29/09
An unnamed "top Republican congressional official" says that the economic stimulus bill could result in illegal aliens receiving checks from the government (link):
The legislation, which would send tax credits of $500 per worker and $1,000 per couple, expressly disqualifies nonresident aliens, but it would allow people who don't have Social Security numbers to be eligible for the checks.
Undocumented immigrants who are not eligible for a Social Security number can file tax returns with an alternative number. A House-passed version of the economic recovery bill and one making its way through...
Far-left CAF raves about Stimulus Bill ("Almost As Pure As Ivory Soap") - 01/28/09
Bernie Horn from the Campaign for Americas Future offers "Obama's Economic Recovery Plan Is Almost As Pure As Ivory Soap" (ourfuture.org/blog-entry/2009010527/obama-s-economic-recovery-plan-almost-pure-ivory-soap):
...The American Recovery and Reinvestment Act is a remarkably "clean" bill. Only between 1.5 and 3 percent is being wasted on tax cuts for business. Put another way, the bill is about 98 percent pure - money dedicated to good, progressive causes... The bottom line: This is the biggest and boldest progressive legislation in 40 years...
The co-directors of CAF are Roger Hickey and...
Interest cost on stimulus bill: $347 billion over 10 years - 01/27/09
Rep. Paul Ryan (R-WI) asked the Congressional Budget Office to estimate just the debt service on the stimulus plan (H.R. 1), i.e., how much it would cost in interest. You can download the PDF with the reply at reason.com/blog/show/131301.html; the important part of it is below as well as Boehner calling it a "trillion dollar spending bill":
Stimulus bill: billions for "nonprofit entities" like ACORN? - 01/26/09
This is from pages 222 and 223 of the House Democrats 1/23/09 version (readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=hr1_text_0123&page=222):
For a further additional amount for ‘‘Community Development Fund’’, $4,190,000,000, to be used for neighborhood stabilization activities related to emergency assistance for the redevelopment of abandoned and foreclosed homes... of which— (1) not less than $3,440,000,000 shall be allocated by a competition for which eligible entities shall be States, units of general local government, and nonprofit entities or consortia of nonprofit entities... Provided further...
Can illegal aliens get jobs or benefits under the Stimulus Bill? - 01/26/09
If there's any way to do it, the Democrats are going to allow funds from the Stimulus bill to go to illegal aliens, and the Republicans are going to allow funds to go to their employers. This post will be updated as the situation changes, but from page 15 of the 1/23/09 House Democrats version (readthestimulus.org/index.php?doc=hr1_text_0123&page=15):
SEC. 1114. REQUIRED PARTICIPATION IN E-VERIFY PROGRAM. None of the funds made available in this Act may be used to enter into a contract with an entity that does not participate in the E-verify program
That would seem to rule out illegal...
Robert Reich: "I have nothing against white male construction workers" - 01/22/09
Showing once again how fine the line is between "progressive" and "outright anti-white racist", former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich said this in his congressional testimony on January 7 (video at the link):