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The Heritage Foundation has released a partial list of the “pork” projects housed in the 2009 Omnibus Bill. Are there any from your home town or state?
Sadly, there is from mine. I first heard of it watching John McCain’s Top Ten Lists on Twitter.com. The pork is for the “Totally Teens Zone” in Albany, Georgia, the next largest city from me. I’m well familiar with the “organization” and I use the term loosely. It’s a group of teens that party under the guise of the Albany Parks and Recreation Center. There are no jobs here, no guidance for teens here, no nothing except a “party zone”. This pork was sponsored by both Georgia Senators Chambliss and Bishop – one republican and one democrat. I’ll be a bit occupied for the next few days screaming from the rooftops against this ignorance.
Below is the list from Heritage. See if the shoe fits your neck of the woods as well. And also, look at all the multi-million dollar projects that have no significant influence or remedy to our financial situation this year. Sound off as you please.
A Sample of the 9,287 Omnnibus Bill Earmarks
Recipient/Purpose Congressional Sponsor Mormon Crickets, Utah Bennett Sidewalk Construction in Ashland & Cherryland, CA Lee Everybody Wins! LaHood Tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, CA Berman Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY Cubin Theater renovation, Merced, CA Cardoza Totally Teen Zone, Albany, GA Bishop, Chambliss National History Day Several Lawmakers Ronald Reagan Parkway, Boone County, IN Buyer Gulf of Maine Lobster Foundation Allen, Snowe, Collins Build a school sidewalk, Franklin, TX Edwards (TX) George Eastman House, Rochester, NY Slaughter, Schumer Versailles Borough Stray Gas Mitigation Doyle (PA) Wayne Gomes Youth Baseball Diversity Foundation Scott Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY Nadler Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate, Boston, MA Kerry, Byrd, Harkin, Durbin, Mikulski, Dodd Bus and Bus Facilities, Lawrence, KS Moore, Roberts Montana World Trade Center Rehberg Wood Education and Resource Center President, Byrd Lemon Street Reconstruction and Enhancements, FL Bilirakis FDR Presidential Library renovation Gillibrand, Reid, Schumer LBJ Presidential Library Hutchison JFK Presidential Library Markey, Lynch, Kerry GoGirlGo! Boston, MA Capuano, Kennedy, Kerry Kansas Farm Bureau, Manhattan, KS Brownback John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts Several Lawmakers Bicycle/Pedestrian Pathways, Provo, UT Cannon, Hatch World Trade Center of St. Louis, MO Bond Illinois Height Modernization Johnson (IL), LaHood Small business program, Florida Department of Citrus Boyd, Putnam, Martinez Sidewalk Construction, Vienna, VA Davis (VA) Bishop Museum, Honolulu, HI Inouye Police Athletic League of Buffalo, Inc Slaughter Wool Research Conaway, Rodriguez (TX) 5th & Market St. Transportation Improvements, PA Specter Business incubator, Arkansas State University Berry, Lincoln, Pryor Salisbury House, Des Moines, IA Harkin, Grassley, Boswell John Nance Garner Museum, Austin, TX Rodriguez (TX) Sidewalk Improvements, Williamstown, VT Leahy, Sanders Red Wolf Breeding Facility Relocation Shuler George C. Wallace Community College-Dothan, AL Everett Pregones Theater, Bronx, NY Serrano Formosan Subterranean Termites Research Landrieu, Vitter, Alexander Landfill Gas Utilization Plant in NY Schumer Replacement of Bus Fleet, Topeka, KS Boyda Widening of County Road 222, Cullman, AL Aderholt Center for Grape Genetics, Geneva, NY Schumer, Walsh, Hinchey, Arcuri Swine Odor and Manure Management Research, Ames, IA Harkin Bossier Parish Congestion Relief Plan, LA Landrieu, Vitter Replacement Buses, Detroit, MI Conyers, Levin, Stabenow Wood Utilization Research Several Lawmakers Oil Region Alliance Peterson (PA) Renovate the Cox Building, Maysville, KY McConnell, Davis (KY) Minnesota Teen Challenge Ramstad, Coleman Berkshire Theater Festival, Stockbridge, MA Kennedy, Kerry Shiloh Road, MT Baucus, Tester American Ballet Theatre, New York, NY Maloney, Schumer Ready, Willing & Able, Philadelphia, PA Brady (PA) Lederer Theater, Providence, RI Reed Wolf Trap Performing Arts Multi-Use Trail, Fairfax, VA Moran Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy, MI Levin Jackie Joyner-Kersee Center, East St. Louis, IL Durbin Historic Jazz Foundation, Inc., Kansas City, MO Cleaver, Emanuel Cal Ripken, Sr. Foundation Ruppersberger, Mikulski, Shelby Street Rehabilitation, Doral, FL Diaz-Balart (Lincoln) Bronx Council on the Arts Serrano Pedestrian Bridges, Iowa City, IA Loebsack Autry National Center for the American West, Los Angeles, CA Schiff, McKeon, Bono, Boxer Music education, Carnegie Hall, New York, NY Maloney, Schumer Greater Toledo Arts Commission Kaptur 55th Street East Grade Separation, Minot, ND Dorgan, Conrad Energy Efficiency Street Lighting, Detroit, MI Kilpatrick, Levin, Stabenow Stockbridge-Munsee Museum, Bowler, WI Kagen Italian American Museum, New York, NY Ackerman, Nadler Citrus Canker, Greening, FL Several Lawmakers Adler Planetarium and Astronomy Museum, Chicago, IL Jackson, Jr., Emanuel, Davis (IL) Bus Replacement, Culver City, CA Watson Wisconsin Height Modernization Obey Hattiesburg 4th Street Improvements, MS Cochran, Wicker Dance Theater Etcetera, Brooklyn, NY Velázquez Museum of Aviation, Warner Robins, GA Marshall (GA), Isakson Reconstruction and Upgrade 2300 West Street, Lehi, UT Hatch, Cannon Revitalize Aliceville, AL Shelby Nashua Police Athletic League Youth Safe Haven Hodes, Gregg Paving, sidewalks and streetlights, Islip, NY Israel Museum of Fine Arts, Boston, MA Kennedy, Kerry I-85 Widening, NC Burr, Dole, Hayes, Watt Sun Valley Lighting Project, CA Berman Children’s Discovery Museum, San Jose, CA Honda, Lofgren World Trade Center Utah Bishop (UT), Bennett Shakespeare and Company Olver, Kennedy, Kerry National Council of La Raza in Washington, DC, Menendez, Bingaman Karnal Bunt, Manhattan, KS Brownback, Roberts, Moran, Boyda, Tiahrt Fairplex Trade and Conference Center Dreier, Napolitano SR-91 Congestion Relief, Orange County, CA Miller (CA) Construction of On/Off Ramps, Midland, TX Conaway Carbon Neutral Green Campus, NV Porter, Reid Manufacturers Association of Central New York Walsh Calhoun County Highway 1 Resurfacing, IL Hare Weed It Now on the Berkshire, MA Olver A+ For Abstinence, Waynesboro, PA Specter Catfish Genome, Auburn, AL Shelby, Rogers (AL), Everett, Davis (AL) Beaver Street Enterprise Center, Jacksonville, FL Brown (FL), Martinez Chattahoochee County Family Connection Bishop Bismarck State College Center Of Excellence Laboratories, ND Dorgan Fruit fly facility, HI Akaka, Inouye, Hirono Oyster rehabilitation, AL Shelby Ed Roberts Campus, Berkeley, CA Boxer 55th Street Extension, Rochester, MN Donnelly, Lugar Source: Conference Report of HR 1105
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You’ll see a $2.6 million project from the “president” in the list. I guess that’s how they intend to take out his name.
Such a sham, they’re all hypocrites. Obama campaigned on getting rid of earmarks while he was busy putting them into the 2009 budget. So much for honesty and transparency.
They all talk about how Americans are “suffering” and cutting back on spending yet congress is a bunch of drunken sailors with our checkbooks!
What the heck is this:
$200,000 Tattoo removal program in Mission Hills, CA
I have to pay for someone’s idiot mistake of a tattoo? We’re fine with this?
And this little gem:
$225,000 Everybody Wins!
So we’re paying $225 million so everybody can win? That’s fine, except we all LOSE in paying for whatever the heck it is.
This is maddening and frustrating though it has been happening for years, Obama is just a liar because he said claimed “hope and change” which is crap.
Don’t we all remember Obama attacking the Gov. Sarah Palin for her earmarks:
http://www.youdecidepolit.....wn-record/
Obama is a squirrel.
Nate, the only ‘pork’ projects from your state include sidewalk construction and money for one of the most celebrated theaters for the performance arts in the nation.
Even if you hate the arts and despise walking on sidewalks, don’t you think both those projects create a few jobs?
Hey, sorry babs I thought nate had posted this. Your state has money for a museum and funding for a recreation center for teens. I guess that really is pretty deplorable.
BABS
I put a purposal on 50 House Dems. article you might want to accept. Maybe not !
Bones
Streets and sidewalks are important. Just not the job of the Federal Government. If the State of NY or Nassau County or the Town of Islip deems that they need new streets there great, they have local taxes just for that. The Federal Government should not be in the business of taking money from Wyoming and spending it in NY, or taking it from NY and spending it in Kansas.
If we just realized that one little fact, and got back to a smaller Federal Government and greater States rights, we’d be on the track to fixing a lot of what’s wrong.
Personally I know that pigs smell. I don’t have to give up tax dollars to find out why. If someone does find out why, and finds away to combat it, they will find a way to profit from it. Not me.. let it be their capital at risk, not mine.
MichaelL,
That’s exactly correct. Why is my tax money I pay here in Virginia going to build a sidewalk a thousand miles away? This doesn’t benefit me.
If the people of Islip want a sidewalk, then they can find the funds to build a sidewalk on the local, or at most the state level.
The federal government overreaches in every single budget and spends taxpayer money, which they have a fiduciary duty to care for, in irresponsible ways.
Then take this for example:
$380,600 Carbon Neutral Green Campus, NV
Global warming is the greatest scam ever shoved on the American people and yet we’re spending $380k to make a carbon neutral campus? Is there any worse example of federal waste?
People see things like sidewalks and think, “that’s great, they need a sidewalk.” In truth, they may indeed need a sidewalk but a taxpayer in Alaska shouldn’t be paying for a sidewalk in Texas, and vice-versa.
Federal taxpayer money is for services which benefit the entire country as a whole, like the military for example. Or perhaps expanding our oil and gas drilling, or helping to build more power plants, etc…
Likewise, a homeowner who has paid their mortgage on time for 10 years shouldn’t be paying the mortgage of some greedy bum who bough more home than they could afford.
Federal money should benefit more than the people who live on a certain street needing a sidewalk. That does not benefit me in any way, shape or form, it simply takes my money and gives me nothing in return.
Babs in response to your reply the “president” earmark is for the Wood Education and Resource Center that is the same place he “met” Bill Ayers now tell me what is that money going to be for????????
You know, Tina, I KNEW that was ringing a bell when I read it! That’s exactly the Foundation they shared the board on, isn’t it? Well, well, the plot thickens. No wonder they wanted to pull Obama’s name from that one.
Babs yes it is and yes the plot thickens but hey the dems get what they want dont they!
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