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Originally Posted by $5 submissions
This pretty much summarizes it. The first "stimulus" was really just PORK.
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The first stimulus hasn't all been spent, it included $46 billion for mass transit and transportation projects, including bridges, building upgrades and water projects.
Often the States determined how the money was spent and on what projects, if they had busted water ways, etc, they could have easily spent the money to correct it. Any Pork, that may have been put in was written by the States and spent by the same people that put it in.
The bill wasn't simply about jobs or creating them, in that department it was more about saving them, and it did do that. The bill also included a large number of funded tax cuts, healthcare for kids/jobless, new homebuyers tax credit, the car purchase tax credit, extended unemployement benefits, building/transportation/transit projects, water projects, energy projects, lots of education benefits for States that greatly needed it, technology investments and even help for small businesses.
Check out what the bill was really about and what it really had in it, then what it actually did... it for sure wasn't just pork.