Do you agree that our elected Republicans are right on wasteful list of spending?

Do you agree that our elected Republicans are right on wasteful list of spending?Your Question
Do you agree w/ the house Republicans-List of wasteful provisions...?
On Monday, House Republican leaders put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly _$ 900 billion_ stimulus bill that is being debated:

• $ 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) (global warming equipment?)

• $ 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.

• $ 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." (what's that?)

• $ 200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $ 75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.

• $ 25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction. (I thought they were exempt from the Fed. government)

+500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $ 10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $ 6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $ 500 million for state and local fire stations.

• $ 650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $ 1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job
programs. (Obama's youth?)

• $ 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.

• $ 160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for
National and Community Service. (paid volunteers?)

• $ 5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the
Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

• $ 850 million for Amtrak, a business that's been losing money for the past 20 years. ( I think Amtrak should be revamped)

• $ 100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.

• $ 75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State
Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.

• $ 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. (but O wants to cut our nukes by 80 percent?)

*If you were voting to spend _our_ money, is this how you would be doing it under the guise of "stimulus"?*

*Kentucky wisdom: "If it smells like a pig, and squeals like a pig, and
eats any slop that you serve it, then it is certainly a politician that is
pushing pork into what they would argue should be a legitimate bill.*

*Note: House Republicians have identified the above as wasteful.

What do you think?***

barefoot road
They are certainly the total experts on wasteful spending that destroyed America and put us in a Great Depression that will be worse than the 30's, so I will say "yea".

Watchful Occupier
The problem is the things in the bill that have jack to with the economy.
A lot of democrat pet projects. They don't see it as pork so let us just call it the other other white meat. There is also a lot of rearranging of the legal code which is completely off the wall for a stimulus bill.

Give me thumbs noobs, but I have read it. Have you?

kara
They will have my vote again. Some of these agencies, instead of funding, we should close down and save that much more.

Edward E
YES

Great Pumpkin
Republicans haven't been right about anything since 1876.

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