Henrietta Hughes (update)

[TheBigotBasher]

You personified why these need to be restored. For going public like that in front of the World, we are grateful.


A kiss from the President and the World



Democratic Members of Congress do your duty Fight the cuts:-
Partially cut:

• $3.5 billion for energy-efficient federal buildings (original bill $7 billion)

• $75 million from Smithsonian (original bill $150 million)

• $200 million from Environmental Protection Agency Superfund (original bill $800 million)

• $100 million from National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (original bill $427 million)

• $100 million from law enforcement wireless (original bill $200 million)

• $300 million from federal fleet of hybrid vehicles (original bill $600 million)

• $100 million from FBI construction (original bill $400 million)

Fully eliminated

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $122 million for Coast Guard polar icebreaker/cutters

• $100 million for Farm Service Agency modernization

• $50 million for Cooperative State Research, Education and Extension Service

• $65 million for watershed rehabilitation

• $100 million for distance learning

• $98 million for school nutrition

• $50 million for aquaculture

• $2 billion for broadband

• $100 million for National Institute of Standards and Technology

• $50 million for detention trustee

• $25 million for Marshalls Construction

• $300 million for federal prisons

• $300 million for BYRNE Formula grant program

• $140 million for BYRNE Competitive grant program

• $10 million state and local law enforcement

• $50 million for NASA

• $50 million for aeronautics

• $50 million for exploration

• $50 million for Cross Agency Support

• $200 million for National Science Foundation

• $100 million for science

• $1 billion for Energy Loan Guarantees

• $4.5 billion for General Services Administration

• $89 million General Services Administration operations

• $50 million from Department of Homeland Security

• $200 million Transportation Security Administration

• $122 million for Coast Guard Cutters, modifies use

• $25 million for Fish and Wildlife

• $55 million for historic preservation

• $20 million for working capital fund

• $165 million for Forest Service capital improvement

• $90 million for State and Private Wildlife Fire Management

• $1 billion for Head Start/Early Start

• $5.8 billion for Health Prevention Activity

• $2 billion for Health Information Technology Grants

• $600 million for Title I (No Child Left Behind)

• $16 billion for school construction

• $3.5 billion for higher education construction

• $1.25 billion for project based rental

• $2.25 billion for Neighborhood Stabilization

• $1.2 billion for retrofitting Project 8 housing

• $40 billion for state fiscal stabilization (includes $7.5 billion of state incentive grants)

[eleny]

1. K&R with thanks

[ronnykmarshall]

2. Can you fill me in about this lady?

[TheBigotBasher]

3. She is left homeless and jobless by the recession.

She sleeps in a car in car parks in Florida, and proudly, bravely, asked the President for urgent action.

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2009/02/10/henrietta-hughes-obama-as_n_165670.html

[AspenRose]

4. Here Ronny

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=132x8186255

[uponit7771]

5. I hate seeing people hurt...

[TheBigotBasher]

8. Thousands more will be in a position like her.

Billions were cut from Housing and transferred to Defence and more tax cuts.

The fact that a homeless woman was able to get to an Obama Town Hall was one thing.
The fact that that homeless lady was not a dirty looking drunk was another. She destroyed another stereo type. Homelessness can happen to anyone.

The fact that her question flummoxed a President, opened the eyes of the World to what is happening in America as a result of this recession is something amazing. She single handedly won the argument for why urgent action is needed now to kickstart the economy.

Her question was brave.

[Barack_America]

6. She personifies the need for Coast Guard cutters and Smithsonian rennovations?

I see a lot on this list that could help Ms. Hughes, but let's not raise her as example for the need of all government spending. To do so seems somewhat exploitative, IMO.

[uponit7771]

7. No just a LOT Of money injected everywhere, at this point even if it's scatered it still better than

...doing nothing or very little.

[tekisui]

9. Coast Guards cutters and Smithsonian rennovations create jobs.

And, can prevent more from being put in her situation.

[joeglow3]

13. Using that logic...

...should we throw some money at AM radio? How about the porn industry? While I support most of these things by themselves, the return we get from them as it relates to a stimulus is nowhere NEAR as high as we could get elsewhere.

[JuniperLea]

15. You clearly don't get it...

You need to open your mind a little and follow the money... jobs, materials, etc.

:eyes:

[WinkyDink]

18. The jobs in question will benefit the entire society. Don't be disingenuous.

[TheBigotBasher]

10. The millions who face losing tehir jobs and homes are the exploited.

She knew why she went to the Town Hall. To ask her President, in desperate times, for help.

She has a President prepared to help.

Congress needs to know that there is a lot more like her.

[JuniperLea]

14. Those things will provide jobs for many...

Not only those who are doing the actual work, but those industries who sorely need the materials orders. Don't forget that dominoes work in either direction.

[Barack_America]

17. I get that.

But, honestly, that same amount of money spent hiring people to plant trees (or something) would impact her more directly.

In any case, my post was in response to a title for the thread that the OP has since edited.

[TheBigotBasher]

21. I added the picture

and the comment a kiss from the President & The world. The title never changed.

[Barack_America]

23. My mistake.

[PopYoColla]

11. Let Repubs tell it....

She's just a lazy bum livin' on the "government plantation". (I like the racial undertones Repubs use when the say that phrase) She should just simply pull herself up by the bootstraps and get off the government tit.

At least that's what they'd say until it got close to election time......

[bdamomma]

12. the fully eliminated programs

are the programs we need badly, what is with these people? they just do not want to help the American people, but I do hope those programs find themselves on another bill soon.

[skeewee08]

16. I just read that she is on Disabilty for Cancer and her son lost his

job(computer programer) because he was taking care of her. Not sure how accurate this is read this on huffington post will do some more research.

Update read on abc.com that she does have cancer and lost her home to unemployment and her son lost his job(computer programmer) because he ws taking care of his ill mother.

[old mark]

19. Rec. That had me in tears.

Obama is a great man in every sense.

mark

[Tangerine LaBamba]

24. You, too?

I find myself choking up every time I see him. For a while, I thought something was wrong with me.

Then I realized two things - he touches my heart, and I have yearned for so long for someone like him to lead our country.

Thank you for making me feel less insane.

:toast:

[old mark]

25. T LaB: don't feel bad.

I'm a 61 year old white man with a house full of guns ( among other things).
This guy brings me to tears of happy relief nearly every time I see him.

I could not stand to watch anything to do with W, and I got tired of Clinton's self serving caginess.

President Obama is unlike any president I know of since Truman or JFK on their best days.

Besides, I think whats left of the Republican party will destroy itself trying to tear him down - the people, even republican voters, come to love him after he talks to them.

mark

[Tangerine LaBamba]

26. Old Mark......

I got a few years on you, a degenerate old hippie chick who posed as respectable most of her adult life, and I remember JFK - Truman, not very well - and how that glow grew whenever he was on TV (remember those B&W press conferences?).

Obama, maybe because we've been so horribly abused, has a whole lot more of that going on than JFK had, which startles me. He reaches out to people, literally and figuratively, like JFK never had to.

I'm hoping the GOPigs will devour themselves and their young. I like that OUR PRESIDENT OBAMA is taking their behavior to the people, telling them very clearly what the GOPigs have done and not letting up for a minute.

We're not alone, are we?

[Manifestor_of_Light]

27. Degenerate old hippie chick......!!!!

:rofl:

I'm not quite that old. The first prez I remember was JFK.

I had the long straight hippy dippy hair in the early 70s. I have a picture of myself and my big sister from 1970. I am amazed that my hair is that long (about 4 inches below the shoulders).
I am amazed because my hair is so thick that it becomes completely unmanageable at shoulder length, so I keep it short now.

I wonder if we have any "bomb throwing socialists" around here?

My dad was a union organizer in the 30s and 40s, so I would probably qualify.

The dirty four letter word at our house was "SCAB".

[Tangerine LaBamba]

28. A law school classmate of mine

had been busted at his campus in Wisconsin for throwing a Molotov cocktail at an unoccupied building during a Vietnam protest. The idiot used a thick glass Coke bottle, so it didn't break, just rolled back at him, while he shrieked and ran right into the arms of the cops who had been tipped off to what he was doing. Then they all got the hell out of there and took cover while the damn thing blew up.

He did weekends in jail and was worried about getting his record expunged so that he could become a member of the bar.

I had hair down to my waist in the sixties. Life was beautiful. My closest friends are still the people I met in college back then. We have never grown up, are still the same politically, only we now look somewhat normal.

My grandfather taught me the values of Eugene V. Debs, Dreyfus, and Emil Zola, all the while making sure I never trusted authority and didn't believe anything until I saw it with my own eyes or heard it with my own ears. My parents were both union members, and I can still sing all of "Look For The Union Label."

We old hippies have gotta stick together, _Light.

:toast:

[old mark]

32. Funny story! Half of that guy's group was probably FBI.

I had long wavy hair. I was a bar musician before and after I enlisted in the Army (Found a way to beat the draft).My wife also played guitar in a few places on South Street in Philly. We have guitars, etc, all over the house,still play for fun but alas, I have no more hair.

mark

[old mark]

31. Hell, no! We are just coming out of hiding after years of

being ashamed and disgusted by the jerk who was our "leader".

mark

[OwnedByFerrets]

33. I'm an older man who choked up big time when I saw this.....

and even moreso when I related it to my wife. I just couldnt help it. It was a very moving moment.

[biopowertoday]

20. Obama needs to push for these during the upcoming negoiations also.

[K Gardner]

22. School lunches?? !! Right, because THEIR kids are eating at a PRIVATE school or at home. Grrrr !!!

[TheBigotBasher]

29. Remember - after defence expenditure

and their tax cuts for the rich are added - the Senate Bill is MORE expensive than the House Bill and helps fewer people.

We need Al Franken seated so that we can rely on one less heartless Real America hating Republican.

(soz typo)

[TheBigotBasher]

30. I wish each and every Senator on this list

would go and speak to this lady, if not her, someone in her position.

Can the position she finds herself in, as a result of cancer, be right for the largest economy in the World?

The "Centreists"

Democratic Caucus (11)
Evan Bayh (IN)
Michael Bennett (CO)
Kent Conrad (ND)
Mary Landrieu (LA)
Joe Lieberman (CT)
Clarie McCaskill (MO)
Ben Nelson (NE)
Jeanne Shaheen (NH)
Mark Warner (VA)
Jim Webb (VA)
Mark Udall (CO)

Republican Caucus (5)
Susan Collins (ME)
Mel Martinez (FL)
Olympia Snowe (ME)
Arlen Specter (PA)
George Voinovich (OH)


To some extent the Republicans moving towards the Democratic position are hundreds of times better than those who WERE ELECTED ON THE BACK OF THE OBAMA COAT TAILS TO DO A JOB.

And Harry - yes you should answer to the President. He leads the Party.