Please tell me how you feel about this - What GOP Leaders deem wasteful in Senate stimulus bill?(CNN) -- On Monday, Congressional 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:
The Senate is currently the nearly $ 900 billion economic stimulus bill.
The Senate is currently the nearly $ 900 billion economic stimulus bill.
• $ 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.
Phil M
I guess it comes down to which part of the pig you like more...
both proposals are loaded with pork.
amber 18
I think that they are 80% right. Most of these things are just not necessary right now. And, most of the descriptions are broad and meant to sound "helpful" but the actual use of the money will be spent in non productive ways.
I do think that local fire departments are in need of some money, and anything that helps build up our infrastructure would be helpful. PUBLIC infrastructure, not furniture for the dept of homeland security, or cars for federal employees. But public facility use would be ok.
Otherwise, this is a load of crap that my kids will have to pay for...
scratchandpeck
The whole thing, regardless of which party wants it, is all SOCIALISM! The Constitution doesn't allow for any of what they are doing, but they are doing it anyway. This is the final death blow to our Republic. Until every American citizen wakes up and educates themselves that govt wasn't created to be a provider, we will continue on the same destructive path. History does repeat itself if not learned. Great Depression II will be here shortly. Keynesian economics is a failure. Ron Paul and the Austrian economists were right all along. Spread the message of Freedom, Liberty and Constitutional government and we will recover much faster. Unless of course you like being a slave. Remember, EACH man, woman and child's portion of this is $ 6,700. Socialism takes from those who produce and gives to those who do not! Morally wrong, is the only way I can describe it.
Robert C
Paid volunteers?
Take out 6.9 billion and add 13 billion. None of it stimulus. We truly live in an Idiocracy.
Lisa S
I'm going to pick and choose, here goes:
$ 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.
***Once inefficient, always inefficient!!!!
• A $ 246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
***Didn't they make enough money off of Twilight?
• $ 650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
***What was wrong with analog?
* 448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
***Isn't there an empty building somewhere they can use?
• $ 248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
***Can't they just shop at Goodwill like everyone else?
• $ 600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
***Buy them all 10speeds
• $ 400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's
***UMM, Condoms
* $ 125 million for the Washington sewer system.
**** Throw it in the river, that's what we do in Tennessee
• $ 150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
***If they want to look at naked women get'em a computer
• $ 1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $ 3 billion.
***I have 5 in my family, consider me counted
• $ 75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
***The patch isn't good enough?
• $ 200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
***What's wrong with the ones at the library?
• $ 75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
***If they'd let me keep my gun we wouldn't need the FBI
$ 6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings
*** I say paint 'em pink!!!
$ 1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs
***How about Community Service!!!
$ 88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service
***Sounds like a Youth Summer Job Program to me!!!
$ 160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
***Did you miss the part about VOLUNTEERS?
• $ 850 million for Amtrak.
***For what? Just asking
• $ 100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
***If you haven't painted your house since 1978, it's probably time
***Shop Home Depot
• $ 75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
***Send 'em to a military base to train, they have all the equipment
$ 200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
***Can a tank run on vegetable oil? How about AA batteries?
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