UPDATE: Puerto Rico Governor Fires Two More Officials Over Hidden Emergency Relief Supplies…

It is unfathomable these supplies were not distributed; and worse yet were likely being re-sold on the black market.

These emergency supplies and materials were delivered in 2017.  In January a magnitude 6.4 earthquake hit Puerto Rico and President Trump authorized an additional $8.2 billion in aid….  When inspecting the building for quake damage the hidden relief supplies were discovered.

https://theconservativetreehouse.com/2020/01/19/update-puerto-rico-governor-fires-two-more-officials-over-hidden-emergency-relief-supplies/#more-181307

You can't save the world

Buying a homeless man a sandwich for two dollars feeds that man. Appropriating twenty billion dollars to feed a sandwich to every homeless man in America will only provide sandwiches to a small percentage of the homeless at a cost of four thousand dollars a sandwich.

Once you try to buy sandwiches for millions of homeless men, the sandwich money is eaten up by the expenses of studying how to identify the homeless, learning what kind of sandwiches they would like, studies on marketing sandwiches to homeless people over social media, the costs of diversity training for the sandwich makers and a million other things.

You can buy a homeless man a sandwich, but you can’t buy them all sandwiches because once you do that, you are no longer engaging in a personal interaction, but building an organization. You don’t need a homeless man to exist so that you can buy him a sandwich, but once an agency exists that is tasked with buying homeless men sandwiches; it needs the homeless men to exist as ‘clients’ so that it can buy them sandwiches and buy itself steak dinners.

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Here's how you are going to be stimulated

THE STIMULUS PLAN
Where the Money Goes – Selected programs from the $789.2 billion bill
(Friday, Februay 13, 2009, Wall Street Journal)

Spending (24%)

$30 billion
Modernization of the electric grid, advanced battery manufacturing, energy efficiency grants

$19 billion
Payments to hospitals and physicians who computerize medical-records systems

$8.5 billion
National Institutes of Health biomedical research into diseases such as Alzheimer’s, Parkinson’s, cancer and heart disease

$5 billion
Home weatherization grants to low and middle-income families

$6.3 billion
Energy efficiency upgrades to federally-supported and public housing, including new insulation, windows and frames

$29 billion
Road and bridge infrastructure construction and modernization

$8.4 billion
Public transit improvements and infrastructure investments

$8 billion
High-speed rail investments

$18 billion
Grants and loans for water infrastructure, flood prevention and environmental cleanup

Tax Cuts (38%)

$6.6 billion
Tax credit for first-time homeowners buying between April 2008 and June 2009 is raised from $7.500 to $8,000, and will not have to be repaid

$116.2 billion
Workers earning less than $75,000 will get a payroll tax credit of up to $400; married couples filing jointly for less than $150,000 get up to $800

$69.8 billion
Middle-income taxpayers get an exemption from the alternative minimum tax of $46,700 for an individual and $70,950 for a married male

$5.1 billion
Businesses can more quickly deduct the cost of investments in plant and equipment from taxable income

Aid (38%)

$40.6 billion
Aid to local school districts to balance education budgets, prevent cutbacks and modernize schools

$87 billion
Temporary increase in federal funding for Medicaid to states

$2 billion
Funds for communities to buy and rehabilitate foreclosed and vacant properties

$8 billion
Aid to states for public safety and critical services

$14 billion
Education tax credit: Partially refundable $2,500 credit for tuition and books expenses

$17.2 billion
Increase in student aid, including raising maximum Pell Grant to $5,350 in 2009 and to $5,550 in 2010

$200 million
Extra grants for colleges’ work-study programs

$27 billion
Jobless benefits extended to a total of 20 weeks on top of regular unemployment compensation, and 33 weeks in 29 states with high unemployment