Obama’s stimulus plan gets the Google Spreadsheet treatment
I’m guessing you’ve all heard about President Barack Obama’s stimulus plan. Currently, it’s worth $850 billion, written in 941 pages of legalese. He plans to have it signed into law by mid-February, but that’s probably a little optimistic, given the Republican response. John McCain himself already stated that he’s not going to vote for the bill as it now stands.
By the time congress is done with the bill, it will likely have been expanded to thousands of pages with each senator and congressman inserting his or her own pet project for inclusion, as what happened with the $700 billion Wall Street bailout package. Right now, however, the good people over at ReadtheStimulus.org are trying to dissect Obama’s original American Recovery & Reinvestment Act of 2009, to make it easier for regular people to read and understand.
You can find their website here, while the Google Spreadsheet of appropriations can be read here. Notably, Student Financial Assistance will be getting over $16 billion, while total school modernization funds will be $20 billion. Check out the full texts at these sites.
If you could change anything in the bill, what would it be?
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