"we have successfully stabilized the financial markets," and "started to see some stabilization on housing." Full Story Here
Are you serious Mr. President? The flow of credit is flowing like a stream in an extreme drought and the housing market is being stabilized by allowing people to avoid foreclosure, when in fact they should be put out on their ass for buying a house they couldn't afford. But I know that is someone else's fault because you the home owner can't figure out that you make x and your expenses are y and y is greater than x. It's not rocket science. And the piss poor flow of credit that has picked up some but clearly not enough is a driving factor in the high unemployment. So don't come out and say two down and one to go when in fact it maybe more like a half down and two and a half to go.
Thursday, July 2, 2009
Monday, June 29, 2009
Stimulus money boosts health clinics serving poor
COLORADO SPRINGS, Colo. (AP) – Homeless teenagers at a central Colorado shelter are feeling the effect of the government's economic stimulus package. It's the feeling of a dentist's drill.
The 20 runaway youths living at the Urban Peak shelter had no regular dental care until this spring, when a $1.3 million stimulus grant to a community health center paid for a mobile dental and medical clinic to visit once a month. The residents now get medical and dental screenings, and cavities filled, right from their shelter's parking lot.
"I knew my teeth needed to be fixed but I had no money," says Michelle Daulton, 18, who has been living at the shelter for about four months and hadn't seen a dentist since she was 13.
Now she's had three chipped teeth repaired. "It was absolute and pure relief, I mean that," she said.
From the Colorado homeless shelter to rural Pennsylvania clinics that can accept new patients, health centers that serve the poor are among the first places the federal stimulus package is being spent.
The stimulus law sets aside $2.5 billion for free and low-cost health clinics, and a big chunk of it — about $500 million — is already being spent. The White House has promised another burst of money this summer. Full Story Here
What a beautiful and heartwarming story. Aren't you glad they passes the economic stimulus package? I just have one question how in the hell does giving money to low income or free clinics stimulate the economy? See what happens when you elect a community organizer. I don't have a problem with this if that is what the entire bill was for, but this in no way, shape or form stimulates the economy. And that is what we were told this bill was supposed to do. This is exactly why there is no "change" and no new ideas. This is the same old song and dance.
The 20 runaway youths living at the Urban Peak shelter had no regular dental care until this spring, when a $1.3 million stimulus grant to a community health center paid for a mobile dental and medical clinic to visit once a month. The residents now get medical and dental screenings, and cavities filled, right from their shelter's parking lot.
"I knew my teeth needed to be fixed but I had no money," says Michelle Daulton, 18, who has been living at the shelter for about four months and hadn't seen a dentist since she was 13.
Now she's had three chipped teeth repaired. "It was absolute and pure relief, I mean that," she said.
From the Colorado homeless shelter to rural Pennsylvania clinics that can accept new patients, health centers that serve the poor are among the first places the federal stimulus package is being spent.
The stimulus law sets aside $2.5 billion for free and low-cost health clinics, and a big chunk of it — about $500 million — is already being spent. The White House has promised another burst of money this summer. Full Story Here
What a beautiful and heartwarming story. Aren't you glad they passes the economic stimulus package? I just have one question how in the hell does giving money to low income or free clinics stimulate the economy? See what happens when you elect a community organizer. I don't have a problem with this if that is what the entire bill was for, but this in no way, shape or form stimulates the economy. And that is what we were told this bill was supposed to do. This is exactly why there is no "change" and no new ideas. This is the same old song and dance.
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