The coronavirus relief bill

The Stimulus Package, as it is called, only cost us all a cool two trillion dollars, but it was worth the price, wasn’t it? Let’s see, that will put our national debt somewhere in the neighborhood of only 25 trillion dollars, but is it of really great value?

(Note especially the first item)

$25,000,000 for additional salaries for the House of Representatives. How is that controlling the virus?
$100,000,000 to NASA. I didn’t know the virus came from outer space, I thought it came from China.
$20,000,000,000 to the USPS. Are we going to mail the virus back to China?
$300,000,000 to the Endowment for the Arts. Maybe we can charm the virus out of existence.
$300,000,000 for the Endowment for the Humanities. I don’t even know what this is, let alone how it could eliminate the virus
$30,000,000,000 for the Department of Education stabilization fund. That’s right $30 billion. I didn’t realize teachers were fighting the virus; they are at home.
$200,000,000 to Safe Schools Emergency Response to Violence Program.
$300,000,000 to public broadcasting. I have no clue on this one.
$500,000,000 to museums and libraries. Now I am really lost.
$720,000,000 to Social Security Administration, of which only $200,000,000 is to benefit people. The rest is for administration costs.
$25,000,000 for cleaning supplies for the Capitol Building. Can’t make this up folks. It’s on page 136 of the bill. Maybe to clean up all the BS?
$7,500,000 to the Smithsonian for additional salaries. How does that help to combat the virus?
$35,000,000 to the JFK Center for Performing Arts?
$3,000,000,000 upgrade to the IT department at the V.A.
$315,000,000 for state department diplomatic programs. I haven’t a clue as to how this helps.
$95,000,000 for the Agency of International Development. What is the relevance here?
$300,000,000 for international disaster assistance.
$300,000,000 for migrant and refugee assistance.
$90,000,000 for the Peace Corp.
$13,000,000 to Howard University.
$9,000,000 to miscellaneous Senate expenses.
$25,000,000 to the FAA for administrative costs.
$492,000,000 to National Railroad Passenger Corporation
$526,000,000 grants to AMTRAK to remain available, if needed.
$3,000,000 maritime administration.
$5,000,000 salaries and expenses office of the inspector general.
$2,500,000 public and Indian housing.
$5,000,000 in community planning and development.
$2,500,000 office of housing.
$1,500,000,000 tenant-based rental assistance office of public and Indian housing.
$1,000,000,000 of $720,000,000 to the public housing fund.
$100,000,000 for Community Block Grants for Native Americans
$250,000,000 for Housing Block Grants for Tribes.
$130,000,000 for AIDS housing.
$15,000,000,000 for the community development fund page 188. (That’s $15 billion of which only $10,000,000 is set aside for infrastructure for fighting infectious disease.)
$5,000,000,000 in homeless assistance.
$100,000,000,000 for rental assistance.
$7,000,000 to enforce the Fair Housing Act.
$1,000,000,000 for more Obama-phones. Really? Obamaphones?
$227,000,000 for grants to states for youth activities.
$261,000,000 for grants to states for dislocated worker employment and training activities, including supportive services and needs-related payments.
$10,000,000 for migrant and seasonal farmworker programs.
$100,000,000 for Job Corps. $30,000,000, to OSHA.
$10,000,000 for Susan Harwood training grants. Does anyone know who she is? $9,500,000,000, for higher education. $9.5 billion?
$25,000,000,000 for transit infrastructure page 169. (Why isn’t this in a separate bill? We need it, but what’s it doing in a coronavirus bill?

As you can see, I have given up trying to figure the relevance of all these great amounts of money being spent on thin air. Unfortunately, we now see how unreal the mental state of our politicians has become. The programs listed above are nothing more than vote grabbing schemes to ensure their re-election. We really do not need a Christmas wish list in the midst of this crisis. We can’t afford it