Is this what $350 million in contributions buys?

Is this what 0 million in contributions buys?• $ 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).

• $ 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.

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• $ 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.

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

• $ 25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $ 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.

• $ 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.

• $ 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.

• $ 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.
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/
Kathy - Either way it's obscene...
Yep it's the "Blue Plate Special"...
daddeo - Something tells me, a double digit campaign donation only gets you a "Hope" Key-chain...
Bot - Obama claims we got globial warming why would we need an "Ice Breaker"...

kathy059
I read that earlier today, it is nothing short of government porn.
Oh, sorry, government pork.

nschu91
Its quick sickening.

Stimulus my A S S

It is a spending package.

America might just be screwed- though I pray not.

Guru
I know they won't get all this PORK but some of these things are vital to this country~but not going to stimulus the US out of the recession
and soon to be depression

I think this is a Trillion Dollar Pork Bill that should be put on a drastic
diet~~~

daddeo01905
> $ 0 million for the Daddeo party at Hooters program.

> $ 0 million for the Daddeo Penthouse bailout stumulus.

> $ 0 Million for ....

ObamaBot THX-1138
A few things bother me, they are probably lies, most of it seems fine:

1)why call Polar Icebreaker pork? Do you have any idea how important ice breakers are for transportation, not to mention saving people's lives?
2) Hybrid vehicles for federal employees seems exactly what you to spend money on - spend money today and it will reduce that much fuel and oil today an in the future.
3) What is wrong with rural waste disposal? Would you prefer they don't dispose of their waste? Or that it goes into the water table?

4) Flood reduction for the Mississipppi? Are guys insane? Why wouldn't you want to prevent more floods like Katrina and the one off the Missouri?
5) 6 billion to turnt federal buildings into 'green' buildings. Again, more example of saving oil. I know you guys like to drill, but this is absurd. Conservation is the #1 cheapest way to reduce our oil consumption.

I could go on here, and yes, the movie thing bothers me and the furniture thing bothers me. But I don't know the size of Homeland Security. It is supposedly a merger of just about every silly security organization we have. And I certainly don't mind, in the interests of speed, to spend a bit too much on furniture than too little.

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