Dear Friend,

Today in Denver, Colorado President Obama will sign the trillion dollar Pelosi\Reid\Obama spending bill that you and I worked so hard to stop.

While losing this battle is disappointing, I am more optimistic than ever that we can succeed in protecting the American Dream.Here’s why.

1. You showed the politicians and media that literally hundreds-of-thousands of Americans from all walks of life are willing to fight to protect our economic freedoms.

—As of today 465,000 Americans have signed the NoStimulus.com petition.I’ll never forget our website crashing within seconds of our appearing on FOX.

—You shut down the telephone lines at the Capitol.I saw Senators in the days before the vote and they had that “hunted” look in their eyes.

2.You proved our side can compete and win on the “new media” front.For consecutive days, you made NoStimulus.com and Americans for Prosperity the leading search on Google and then Yahoo.

Thousands of Americans have gone to YouTube.com to view Americans for Prosperity’s videos detailing your grassroots energy.We can match and defeat our opponents on this front.

3.The other side has problems too.With every political wind at his back, President Obama came within 1 vote in the Senate of losing this first battle.Already, their next Bank Bailout is being panned (with good reason).3 of President Obama’s Cabinet nominees have had to withdraw.According to public polls, Speaker Pelosi and Majority Leader Reid have some of the lowest approval ratings in American history.

By the way, today when the President says this is a carefully drawn, fiscally responsible bill consider what is in the final legislation:

Billions in outright pork and wasteful spending:
$300 million for buying cars for federal bureaucrats;$3.7 billion for something called “green research” on military bases;$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts; $2 billion for “neighborhood stabilization” to radical groups like ACORN;$1.3 billion for Amtrak; $10 million for”urban canals”(I’m not making this up); etc.

The Road to Government Run Health Care
$1.1 billion for “comparative effectiveness research” that will establish a federal government board to begin rationing health care by having bureaucrats deciding which medical treatments will be appropriate for which Americans.(Page 52 of final conference report)

Overturning the Historic Welfare Reform of 1996
$264 billion for direct welfare payments while overturning the historic welfare reform of 1996.The Pelos\Reid\Obama bill will reward states with federal welfare funds based on the number of people they put on their welfare rolls – a perverse incentive that will in effect give states “bonuses” for adding more people to welfare rolls AND work requirements are ignored in this legislation.

$53.6 billion for a “state stabilization fund” otherwise known as a slush fund
This massive infusion of our tax dollars is designed to alleviate the need for genuine budget reform and cutting at the state level.

So, when you hear folks saying this Pelosi\Reid\Obama “stimulus” bill was a “compromise” that cut waste to the bone while focusing only on “shovel ready” priorities, call them on it!

Thank you for joining our NoStimulus.com petition effort.You made the nation stand up and take notice at a crucial time.As a result of our effort, we can look to future public policy battles with a renewed sense of confidence.If we could come within 1 vote of winning in the Senate on this first and toughest battle,just think what we can do in the contests that lie ahead.

As Ronald Reagan liked to say, “You ain’t seen nothing yet!”

Sincerely,

 

Tim Phillips
President, Americans for Prosperity

 

 

  

  

 

  

 

             

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Mr. “I’m a conservative…really..you believe me don’t you…I served with Gingrich…with Reagan….I’m a conservative!”  who rolled over, wet himself and meekly signed off on TARP like an obedient jellyfish…has actually taken a stand against the overspending plan known as “Stimulus 2K9″

http://www.crimsonpolitics.com/john-mccain-launches-petition-against-obama-stimulus-package

             

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Thanks to Powerline & Michelle Malkin

1. The House Democrats’ bill will cost each and every household $6,700 additional debt, paid for by our children and grandchildren.

2. The total cost of this one piece of legislation is almost as much as the annual discretionary budget for the entire federal government.

3. President-elect Obama has said that his proposed stimulus legislation will create or save three million jobs. This means that this legislation will spend about $275,000 per job. The average household income in the U.S. is $50,000 a year.

4. The House Democrats’ bill provides enough spending - $825 billion - to give every man, woman, and child in America $2,700.

5. $825 billion is enough to give every person living in poverty in the U.S. $22,000.

6. $825 billion is enough to give every person in Ohio $72,000.

7. Although the House Democrats’ proposal has been billed as a transportation and infrastructure investment package, in actuality only $30 billion of the bill - or three percent - is for road and highway spending. A recent study from the Congressional Budget Office said that only 25 percent of infrastructure dollars can be spent in the first year, making the one year total less than $7 billion for infrastructure.

8. Much of the funding within the House Democrats’ proposal will go to programs that already have large, unexpended balances. For example, the bill provides $1 billion for Community Development Block Grants (CDBG), which already have $16 billion on hand. And, this year, Congress has plans to rescind $9 billion in highway funding that the states have not yet used.

9. In 1993, the unemployment rate was virtually the same as the rate today (around seven percent). Yet, then-President Clinton’s proposed stimulus legislation ONLY contained $16 billion in spending.

10. Here are just a few of the programs and projects that have been included in the House Democrats’ proposal:

· $650 million for digital TV coupons.
· $6 billion for colleges/universities - many which have billion dollar endowments.
· $166 billion in direct aid to states - many of which have failed to budget wisely.
· $50 million in funding for the National Endowment of the Arts.
· $44 million for repairs to U.S. Department of Agriculture headquarters.
· $200 million for the National Mall, including grass planting.
· $400 million for “National Treasures.”

11. Almost one-third of the so called tax relief in the House Democrats’ bill is spending in disguise, meaning that true tax relief makes up only 24 percent of the total package - not the 40 percent that President-elect Obama had requested.

12. $825 billion is just the beginning - many Capitol Hill Democrats want to spend even more taxpayer dollars on their “stimulus” plan.

Please Contact your Senator and Representative and urge them to either fix, or block this bill.

             

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