An Emergency Economic Stimulus Package?

Members of Congress are calling for an "emergency" bill to help stimulate the economy. I can see the reasoning behind that, but with all the added pork, I think not. The House has attached so much pork to this, that now it is not a stimulus package, it's just another spending bill that we cannot afford. Here are the list of some of the "pork" in this bill that has nothing to do with economic growth:

- $1 billion dollars for Amtrak. Just a reminder to anyone who is not aware, Amtrak has not turned a profit in over 40 years. What makes you think they can now?

- $50 million dollars for National Endowment of the Arts. Please America, someone give me one reason this is in an "emergency" economic stimulus bill. How many jobs is this going to create???

- $400 million dollars to Global Warming Research? So studying the earth's weather patterns, and how it is warming, is somehow going to bring us out of a recession?

- $600 million on top of the budgeted $3 billion to buy new cars for the federal government. The government already owns 600,000 vehicles. Why do we need any more??? I am sure the $400 million spent on global warming research will conclude we should be making less of a carbon footprint. So the government is spending $400 million to research the fact that they should really not be spending another $600 million on carbon emitting vehicles.

- $7 billion, yes billion on modernizing federal buildings and facilities. These expenditures should be accounted for in the yearly budget. Members of Congress should NOT go on a free for all and load it all into an "emergency economic stimulus bill".

Those are just a few spending items in this proposed bill. There was also billions of dollars designated to provide free contraceptives to women. The republicans made a big deal of it, and President Obama ordered Congress to take it out. The bill as passed by the House is not an "emergency" bill. An emergency bill would include only two things, spending on infrastructure, and tax cuts across the board. I am all for trying to create jobs, however I am not for items in this economic stimulus bill that do not stimulate economic growth.