Is the so-called "third stimulus" just a part of the original stimulus plan? There is a lot of

secondwind

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Sat Jan-09-10 04:35 PM
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Is the so-called "third stimulus" just a part of the original stimulus plan? There is a lot of

misinformation going around. Is this "new stimulus money", or just part of the original stimulus package, that Obama is now dipping into?

In this household, we are having a debate about it!

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DJ13

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Sat Jan-09-10 04:41 PM
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1. The majority of the original stimulus was never allocated

Edited on Sat Jan-09-10 04:42 PM by DJ13

Congress and Obama had always planned to hold off on most of the stimulus until this year.

A cynic might say that they were less concerned about using the money to get us out of the crisis than they were concerned about securing reelection for those Congress members running in the midterms.

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babylonsister

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Sat Jan-09-10 04:45 PM
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2. Here's the status of the stimulus...

http://projects.propublica.org/tables/stimulus-spending-progress

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Sat Jan-09-10 04:55 PM
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3. If you're talking the energy grants announcement from yesterday

then yes that was part of the original stimulus. Obama wants and Congress is working on another round of stimulus spending.

"In fact, this initiative has been so popular that we have far more qualified applicants than we�ve been able to fund. We received requests for roughly three times as much in funding -- $7.6 billion -- as we could provide. And that�s why, as part of the jobs package on which I�m urging Congress to act, I�ve called for investing another $5 billion in this program, which could put even more Americans to work right away building and equipping clean energy manufacturing facilities here in the United States."

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secondwind

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Sat Jan-09-10 04:56 PM
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4. thanks to all you DUers!

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