While the United states Armed Forces (private mercenaries) are stationed at 737 bases, in 130 nations around the world, defending “all freedom-loving people everywhere in the world,” Democratic (socialist/fascist) de facto President Obama (either a natural born subject of the United Kingdom enclave of Kenya, or a natural born resident of the republic of Hawaii) signs the Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2009, allocating 106,000,000,000 “dollars” in additional, unlawful, “pork barrel,” deficit spending that includes:

• 100,000,000,000 “dollars” in additional funding for the Iraqi-American and the Afghan-American Wars;
• 4,000,000,000 “dollars” vaccines against the dubious threat of the H1N1 swine flu;
• 5,000,000,000 “dollars” in additional financing for the International Monetary Fund (including a 108,000,000,000 “dollar” bailout-loan guarantee;
• 3,100,000,000 “dollars” for eight C-17 and eleven C-130 military transport planes that the U.s. Air Force does not want, but will preserve jobs in the home district of Democratic CONgressman John Murtha, chairman of the house defense appropriations subcommittee;
• 2,200,000,000 “dollars” in combined emergency economic aid for Egypt, Israel, Jordan, Mexico, and the Hamas terrorist state of Gaza;
• 1,000,000,000 “dollars” in military aid for Pakistan; and
• 1,000,000,000 “dollars” for “Cash for Clunkers” which will provide 3,500 and 4,500 “dollar” vouchers for the purchase of brand new automobiles, on the condition that trade-ins get no more than 18 miles per gallon, and the new automobiles get at least four miles per gallon more than the trade-in.

       Postscript: C4C was been a net drag on the economy.  All it did was accelerate purchases that were eventually going to be made anyway, creating a fiscal “sugar high” that led to depressed auto sales for the near term.  Further complicating the issue was the fact that under the terms of program the engines of the traded in cars had to be destroyed, seriously harming the poorest of the poor who can barely afford to maintain the old clunker that they do have with whatever used parts they can find, let alone honor a promissory NOTE for a car that they cannot afford.

[added 12/11/2021] Thanks to Freedom’s Phoenix for this entry.