What the heck is going on?  Do the people that have been elected or in some cases appointed to Congress even know what they are doing?  According to Nancy Pelosi, every month that a stimulus bill is not passed 500 million Americans (yes, 500,000,000) will lose their jobs.  The last time I checked there are only 140 million workers so we will now have minus 360 million workers.  How could that be? According to the Census Bureau’s PopClock as I write this there are 305,758,335 Americans.  Is Nancy Pelosi insane? I want to say yes.  The stimulus bill that is currently in the Senate is not a stimulus bill.  It is a spending bill with every thing that the Democrats wanted to do over the last eight years, but didn’t get to do.  There are doorbells for $100,000 in Laurel, Mississippi, there is a proposed shelter for prostitutes in Ohio for $1.5 million along with a dog park in Chula Vista, California for $600,000.  These projects are just some of the pork that is going into the bill.  How about $400,000 for prevention and treatment of STDs.  Isn’t that already happening? Aren’t there already programs that address this?  What about money for a no smoking campaign?  Wait, didn’t the tobacco companies get sued and the money paid out was to be used to help people stop smoking?  The majority of restaurants, malls, etc… are non smoking areas.  Many states, cities, counties have a no smoking ban.  I don’t think we need to give, I think it’s $7 million, for this.  Plus in this bill many of the government buildings like the Department of Commerce need some renovating so let’s do that too.  What kind of stimulus is this?  None of these projects and there are a lot more like them are going to do anything to help the person that just got laid off or may be facing foreclosure.  A wise Pioneer told me that this is a stimulus bill because it has stimulated me to write to my elected officials and say What the ….? Please, please let your voice be heard and write, email or call your elected officials. Let them know how you feel.  We don’t answer to the government. They answer to us — the American people.