"It's like we are pigs eating from a trough. The US is going to be totally screwed if this $550bn is spent on everyone's pet projects. It has to be spent on the projects that will deliver the biggest bang for the buck in terms of future economic activity."
The address bar colouring is a good idea to help avoid phishing attacks, most of which use something like http://somebank.com.evil.cn/internetbanking/, so the highlighting of the TLD will make those kind of attacks more obvious