It's going to take the work of many people to get the information on what was in the bill out to the general public. And there is no better tool to help them collaberate than a wiki.
This is why the StimulusWiki makes so much sense.
The Stimulus Wiki was built to dissect and discuss the Stimulus Bill.
We maintain no political affiliations and will keep a strict neutral bias. We are simply here to watch, to learn, and to oversee. We are trying to understand for the first time in History exactly what a bill is going to do and make it easier to consume for the masses, like us.
The site is still a bit bare in some areas, but I fully expect it will become a vital resource for those looking to learn a bit more about what exactly the stimulus bill holds.
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Doesn't the fact that this is even necessary point out that our government is transparently corrupt and oblivious to either the 'crisis' or constituents?
Not a single Nevada elected official who voted for this bill admits to having read it. Not one. But they all are bragging about specific pork they are trying to take credit for getting for Nevadans. Some 'emergency', huh? And everybody in Nevada knows that $8B for that train from LA couldn't happen any faster than they built Yucca Mtn but it just HAD to be in the bill so that we could create jobs (for people doing environmental impact studies, apparently).
Of the three Nevada politicians who voted for this bill, only two of them had staff who were willing to admit this one fact publicly - the calls they were getting where overwhelming AGAINST voting for this spending spree. Titus' office admitted that it was something like 50-100 to 1 in favor of voting NO and the calls after the conference report came out where twice as negative. Yet, Dina Titus claimed to have started reading the bill at 9am and then voting at noon 'AYE'. She read 1073 pages in three hours. No explanation was offered other than that she 'must be a really fast reader' to quote her receptionist.
Anonymous: Excellent points. My back of the envelope math shows you would need to read just under 6 pages a minute for three hours straight to have read it by noon if you started at 9am.
And keep in mind this isn't easy reading material either, this is complex Washington-ese.
Shame on them for having voted on a bill they obviously hadn't read.
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