Obama signs stimulus bill; CA in trouble

It's official - $787 billion is headed into projects/states.

President Barack Obama signed the bill about 40 minutes ago.

The money, earmarked for a LOT of projects, so I guess we'll see how it works. It's not expected to show that "immediate" affect, but lets hope it doesn't take TOO long.

Until then, I'm gonna be nicer (at work, that is) and a harder worker. Need to make sure I keep that sweet job.

Meanwhile...

Big problems in California. The Governator and crew is facing a 20,000 job layoff. The state is expecting to start the massive layoffs of government workers soon and halt all public works projects.

Ouch.

So because lawmakers want to bitch and moan about the state budget, thousands are going to lose jobs, in addition to all the construction jobs that will be lost as well.

Might be better for everyone in the state if that big earthquake would just make it an island already.

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Media and honoring fallen troops

A move by Defense Secretary Robert Gates today could mean more pictures in the public of fallen soldiers returning home.



That means you could start seeing more pictures like this.

For a while, a policy at the Pentagon banned media from taking pictures of flag-draped coffins. President Obama announced yesterday he wanted to review the ban.

"If the needs of the families can be met, and the privacy concerns can be addressed, the more honor we can accord these fallen heroes, the better," Gates told reporters at a Pentagon news conference Tuesday. "So I'm pretty open to whatever the results of this review may be."

Gates says he asked for the ban to be reviewed a year ago, but that didn't happen.

Personally, I think the pictures should be allowed. Those men and women are serving their country overseas. If they pay the ultimate price for our freedom, they should at least be able to be honored when they come home.

People need to know about our troops dying overseas.

What do you think?