So, Democrat senators think this is wasteful in the stimulus, do you agree? Paying FBI agents?

by cliff1066™

So, Democrat senators think this is wasteful in the stimulus, do you agree? Paying FBI agents?.... a little more money ...

• $ 75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $ 75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $ 248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $ 500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $ 88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $ 448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $ 650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $ 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.
• $ 650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $ 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."
• $ 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.
• $ 10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $ 6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.

• $ 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.
• A $ 246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $ 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.
• $ 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.
see here.
http://edition.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html
added:
The remark against the lead paint thing is incredibly DUMB!!! Are you a repub? "Just don't use lead based paint?" "Let them eat cake?"
HAVE YOU EVER STOPPED TO THINK ABOUT ALL THE OLD buildings who are covered in lead based paint????
Or don't inner city buildings factor ever in your life? You know, where mostly black people live?




and nobody thinks to check the link ...

bluechristy
No I don't

scottso360
govt is corrupt. so are corporations. and corporations own the govt.

Steve K
Nothing wrong with the numbers just add a "-" sign in front of each one.

Bob Loblaw
Most of that is out of context. The $ 75 million in salaries for the FBI could simply be that some of the higher paid staff is paid too much. It could include outside parties being paid. The list is just a list without much context. The article also says that it's the GOP that was making this claim back in February.

eileen4330
Do we still wonder why the line item veto doesn't pass?
I dream of a week where we all stay in our houses, no car moves, no cash register rings, no cigarette lit, etc.
Without the taxes for one week, maybe these big spenders would gain common sense. For too long they think that the pockets of the American public are deep without end.
A week of no tax flowing into the Government might give them an inkling of how fed up we are with the crap that they pull.

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