WillowTree
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- Sep 15, 2008
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Dead on. Looking at the "stimulus" shows nothing but crap projects that won't stimulate anything except votes for the Dems.
They ALL crap?
Every one of them?
Why do I have the feeling you really are shooting from the lip here?
$2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
$650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
$88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
why? I thought we were fighing global warming..
$448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
$248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
$600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
$400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's. screen yes, prevent? never ever
$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
$125 million for the Washington sewer system.
$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
$1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
$75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River. gonna flood anyway
$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
$6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings. whilst they let their suv's and private jets idle...
$650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
$88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
$412 million for CDC buildings and property.
$500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
$5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
$850 million for Amtrak.
$100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint. I thought lead based paint went out of use 70 years ago?????
$110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
And remember, President-elect Barack Obama warned Capitol Hill lawmakers that he will bar all pork-barrel projects from the massive economic-stimulus package he is asking them to pass.
Oh..I forgot one.
$13.0 more dollars a week in people's pay checks.
This year. Next year it drops to $7.00.