Understood. I summarized it into 2 words to prevent expanding these details and to avoid what others dubbed a "wall of text"... but my point is NO funding overseas is going to stimulate our local economy. The current price tag for it is $290,000,000 and that's the cost of 6 of the planes that this thread started over. Reversing Bush's far-right-wing decision with a far-left-wing policy is a special interest that belongs to the democratic party alone... that's unrelated to our local economy and should not be porked into the bill. I don't care what happens with planned or unplanned pregnancies inside of this country or out of it, it has no affect on putting Detroit back to work.