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The total of $789 billion includes $275 billion in tax cuts and $514 billion in [[Direct spending#New spending|new spending]].  

The total of $789 billion includes $275 billion in tax cuts and $514 billion in [[Direct spending#New spending|new spending]].  

It includes $170 billion for infrastructure projects such as highways, internet broadband and public-housing repairs. Of that, about $40 billion will go to the Energy Department.  The act will fund projects to create a "smart" electric grid, build electric automobiles, and make homes and buildings more energy efficient.<ref>Stephen Power and Neil King, Jr. "Next Challenge on Stimulus: Spending All That Money," [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123448815417580333.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy '' Wall Street Journal'' Feb 13, 2009]</ref>

It includes $170 billion for infrastructure projects such as highways, internet broadband and public-housing repairs. Of that, about $40 billion will go to the Energy Department.  The act will fund projects to create a "smart" electric grid, build electric automobiles, and make homes and buildings more energy efficient.<ref>Stephen Power and [[Neil King, Jr.]] "Next Challenge on Stimulus: Spending All That Money," [http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123448815417580333.html?mod=rss_Politics_And_Policy '' Wall Street Journal'' Feb 13, 2009]</ref>

There will be $275 billion in tax cuts, including a $800 cash rebate to most families that will be spread out over a year, and an extra $250 quick payment to every person over age 65. The spending provisions cover a very wide variety of projects.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29assess.html?hp David M. Herszenhorn, "Stimulus Package’s Components Vary in Speed and Efficiency," ''New York Times'' Jan. 28, 2009]</ref>

There will be $275 billion in tax cuts, including a $800 cash rebate to most families that will be spread out over a year, and an extra $250 quick payment to every person over age 65. The spending provisions cover a very wide variety of projects.<ref>[http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/29/us/politics/29assess.html?hp David M. Herszenhorn, "Stimulus Package’s Components Vary in Speed and Efficiency," ''New York Times'' Jan. 28, 2009]</ref>

[[Barack Obama|President Obama's]] stimulus package included provisions that had little to do with stimulating the economy, such as "health rules," of which will affect "every individual in the United States."<ref>Betsy McCaughey. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan], bloomberg.com, February 9, 2009.</ref> It created a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will monitor treatments to make sure doctors are doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective: [[Donald Berwick]] was appointed by Barack Obama to manage the health care rationing agenda. These provisions in Obama's stimulus bill are also identical to what [[Tom Daschle]] prescribed in his 2008 book, ''Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.'' According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”  

[[Barack Obama|President Obama's]] stimulus package included provisions that had little to do with stimulating the economy, such as "health rules," of which will affect "every individual in the United States."<ref>Betsy McCaughey. [http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=newsarchive&sid=aLzfDxfbwhzs Ruin Your Health With the Obama Stimulus Plan], bloomberg.com, February 9, 2009.</ref> It created a new bureaucracy, the National Coordinator of Health Information Technology, which will monitor treatments to make sure doctors are doing what the federal government deems appropriate and cost effective: [[Donald Berwick]] was appointed by Barack Obama to manage the health care rationing agenda. These provisions in Obama's stimulus bill are also identical to what [[Tom Daschle]] prescribed in his 2008 book, ''Critical: What We Can Do About the Health-Care Crisis.'' According to Daschle, doctors have to give up autonomy and “learn to operate less like solo practitioners.”  

[[Image:Stim1.jpg|thumb|380px|Cartoonist Chuck Asay summarizes the debate]]  

[[Image:Stim1.jpg|thumb|380px|Cartoonist Chuck Asay summarizes the debate]]

==Conservative criticism==

==Conservative criticism==