DENVER -- President Barack Obama signed his $787 billion economic stimulus package into law Tuesday, with an upbeat speech emphasizing the road to recovery....
"I have every confidence that if we are willing to continue doing the critical work that must be done – by each of us, by all of us – then we will leave this struggling economy behind us, and come out on the other side, more prosperous as a people," the president said.
.... With this legislative achievement behind him, the task ahead for the young Obama administration is even tougher: making sure that this remarkable investment of tax dollars works to help turn around the economy and put Americans back to work.
The Federal Stimulus - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009 - included a direct appropriation of $225 million in grant funding to be administered by the Justice Department's Office on Violence Against Women (OVW).
Created in 1995, OVW implements the Violence Against Women Act (VAWA) and subsequent legislation and provides national leadership against domestic violence, dating violence, sexual assault and stalking.
Four months later, some of these monies are trickling down to West Virginia (you can put that shovel away): Agencies all across the state are in line to get money:
CHARLESTON -- Gov. Joe Manchin announced today the awarding of about $1.15 million in STOP Violence Against Women Act - American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) grants for 19 projects across the state....[By County:]CABELL Branches Domestic Violence Shelter, Inc. $101,600.00
FAYETTE Women’s Resource Center $28,044.00
GREENBRIER The Family Refuge Center $41,000.00
HAMPSHIRE Family Crisis Center, Inc. $38,456.00
HARRISON Task Force on Domestic Violence “HOPE, Inc.” $110,968.00
KANAWHA City of Charleston $107,932.00
MARION Task Force on Domestic Violence “HOPE, Inc.” $131,456.00
MASON Branches Domestic Violence Shelter, Inc. $38,456.00
MCDOWELL McDowell County Commission $58,415.00
MCDOWELL, MERCER,WYOMING Stop Abusive Family Environments, Inc. (SAFE) $38,456.00
MONROE The Family Refuge Center $38,456.00
PUTNAM Branches Domestic Violence Shelter, Inc. $22,391.00
RALEIGH Women’s Resource Center $28,044.00
WETZEL YWCA Wheeling-Wetzel County $107,372.00
WOOD Wood County Commission $41,000.00
[Statewide:]
West Virginia Sheriffs’ Association $71,500.00
West Virginia Foundation for Rape Information $30,466.00 and Services
West Virginia Coalition Against Domestic Violence $55,096.00
West Virginia Supreme Court of Appeals $57,322.00
Even assuming these are worthy and helpful projects,
Where's the economic Stimulus?
More on "Obama's Post-Capitalist America" here. Kudos to Sultan Knish for spelling it out:
Destroying the "American Dream" of financial success and personal freedom, is the only way that the left can take over the United States... and replace it with their own "Soviet Dream" of centralized government control, enforced social justice and power to the ... community organizers.
Obama's Post-Capitalist America is meant to be the triumph of socialism, and the emergence of a new America that will have nothing in common with the old except a handful of totems and icons, a flag, a 4th of July fireworks display and a name.To get there, America is to be plunged into poverty and misery, its businesses are to be destroyed, corrupted through regulation into socialist entities or nationalized outright. Its citizens are to be goaded with an endless barrage of propaganda into a state of numb mindlessness and its institutions are to be taken over, just as the barbarians seized Rome.
That is what we are seeing now in Obama's War on America...
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