Pilgrims, I am sorry to keep beating you to death with this Porkulus thing....

but if I watch it and say nothing ---- Ain't I as guilty as Obamanation? Folks, our nation needs your prayers!

Last week, Obama wrote in an op-Ed piece in the Washington Post that if Congress does not pass his "stimulus" package, and do so right away, "Our nation will slip deeper into a crisis that, at some point, we may not be able to reverse." "Wow," I thought when I read this, "The stimulus bill must contain some really important stuff if it's critical to the survival of our country! I better take a closer look. Maybe the guy is really onto something." So, I did some Internet research and here is just some of the massive spending proposed in the bill:

-- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts (partial payback to Hollywood liberals?)

-- $380 million for the Women, Infants & Children welfare program

-- $300 million in grants to combat violence against women

-- $1.2 billion to provide "youth" with summer jobs (because their parents will be unemployed)

-- $2.4 billion for "neighborhood stabilization" activities (Barbed wire for LA, So. Chicago, Miami and Detroit?)

-- $650 million for digital TV coupons (more made in China items/computers)

-- $150 million for the Smithsonian (new storage area for Obama signs)

-- $34 million to renovate the Dept. Of Commerce headquarters (more made in China items/computers)

-- $500 million for improvements to the National Institute of Health facility (more made in China items/computers)

-- $44 million for repairs to the Dept. Of Agriculture's headquarters (more made in China items/computers)

-- $350 million for agriculture department computers(more made in China items/computers)

-- $88 million to move (that's right, move) the Public Health Service into a new building.

-- $1 billion for the Census Bureau (more made in China items/computers)

-- $89 billion for Medicaid (not Medicare)

-- $30 billion for COBRA extensions (insurance for the increasing number of unemployed)

-- $36 billion for expanded unemployment (many more coming up)

-- $20 billion for food stamps (many more coming up)

-- $850 million for Amtrak (Already subsidised every year..2008 was 1.3 billion)

-- $87 million for a "polar ice breaking ship" (What about the ice caps melting because of global warming?)

-- $1.7 million for the National Park Service

-- $55 million for the Historic Preservation Fund

-- $7.6 million for the Rural Advancement Program

-- $150 million for "agricultural commodity purchases" (For more unemployed)

-- $150 million for producers of livestock, farm-raised fish and honey bees ( Yes, bees)

-- $160 million for paid volunteers (what is a "paid volunteer"?) at the Corporation for National and Community Service

Are we really to believe Obama that we may not be able to reverse our country's slide if he and Congress are prevented from ramming all this pork down our throats? And, by the way, what happened to Obama's pledge to end pork barrel spending?

Another interesting tidbit: Obama said that one of the reasons Congress must pass the stimulus bill, and must pass it NOW, is to end our dependence on foreign oil. What is astonishing is that he made this proclamation about energy independence less than 24 hours after his new interior secretary canceled the oil and gas leases on 77 parcels of federal land.

Oh, and by the way, Congress did pass the Bill but Obama has been away on vacation in Chicago(not even in office for a month) and has delayed signing this "critically urgent" legislation until he can set up the appropriate photo op in Denver. He was busy last weekend -- up in Camp David 'just to get away from it all after a tough week in office" as well...