Wednesday, February 4, 2009

The scoop on the economic stimulus package

Plan includes:
-$275 billion in tax relief
- $90 billion for infrastructure
-$79 billion for school funding
-$198 million for U.S. military benefits for Filipinos who fought for the U.S. during WWII
- $75 million for "smoking cessation activities"
- $87 million for the "design of a new polar icebreaker"
- $335 million for HIV/STD screening
- $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees
- $6.2 billion for home weatherization
- $50 million for port modernization and water and wastewater infrastructure needs in Guam
-$100 million for children to learn green construction

2 comments:

Unknown said...

That is a lot of money. I wonder where he will get all that money in this economy. Makes me think the plan will not help the economy any time soon.

Jesse Chung said...

I heard recently that the US got a D in infrastructure so it is good that money is going into that but, what about this polar icebreaker? What is that supposed to do?