WSJ on The Stimulus: You Won’t Believe What’s in It.

From The Wall Street Journal:

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We’ve looked it over, and even we can’t quite believe it. There’s $1 billion for Amtrak, the federal railroad that hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years; $2 billion for child-care subsidies; $50 million for that great engine of job creation, the National Endowment for the Arts; $400 million for global-warming research and another $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects. There’s even $650 million on top of the billions already doled out to pay for digital TV conversion coupons.

In selling the plan, President Obama has said this bill will make “dramatic investments to revive our flagging economy.” Well, you be the judge. [Read More]

You can read the stimulus for yourself, all 624 pages of it. Andy McCarthy at The Corner calculates that only 12 cents of every dollar of proposed spending can be called a growth stimulus. Extracted to the number of pages in the bill, that means that 74.88 pages of the 624 page bill are actually a stimulus plan–that leaves us with 549.12 pages of pork.