Why Have The Liberal Crooks In Washington Dc Stuffed Hr-1 With So Much Pork?
Why would Nancy Pelosi, Harry Reid, Barack Obama, and the rest of the liberal thugs in DC push all of this spending off on the American people?
This is our taxes our dept to pay…
Why are they trying to make the government bigger, why is all of this pork in this spending bill?
$30 Million for Wetland restoration in the San Francisco Bay Area – including work to protect the Salt Marsh Harvest Mouse
$50 Million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$2 Billion for the Neighborhood Stabilization Fund, providing funds to organizations such as ACORN, which has been accused of practicing unlawful voter registration in recent elections
$10 Million for the inspection of canals in urban areas
$100 Million for grants to small shipyards
$198 Million to authorize payments to certain Filipino veterans from WWII
$300 Million for the Energy Efficient Appliance Rebate Program
$2 Billion to support the manufacturing of advanced vehicle batteries
$1 Billion for Community Development Block Grants
$1.3 Billion for Amtrak, including $450 million for a new rail security grant program not included in either the House-passed or the Senate-passed bills
$300 Million for federal procurement of plug-in and fuel efficient vehicles
$8 Billion for a High Speed Passenger Rail Program, after the House did not include any funding for the program and the Senate included $2 billion, which will fund at least one project from Las Vegas to Los Angeles
$15 Million for historic preservation at historically black colleges and universities
$170 Million for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration to research the cause, effects and ways to mitigate climate change
$200 Million for Americorps and other paid “volunteerism” programs
$400 Million for NASA to accelerate climate research missions
$5.5 Billion for federal buildings (GSA), including $4.5 billion to convert federal buildings into “high-performance green buildings” and $450 million for a new headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
$210 Million for a new grant program to modify and upgrade local fire stations
$142 Million for the Coast Guard to alter or remove 4 obstructive bridges
$25 Million for the Smithsonian Institution for maintenance backlogs
$1 Billion for expenses in conjunction with the 2010 decennial census
$650 Million for Digital-to-Analog Converter Box Coupons
$1 Billion for a Prevention and Wellness Fund, which can be used for sexually transmitted disease (STD) education and prevention programs at the CDC
$500 Million to replace a 30-year old computer system at the Social Security Administration
$500 Million for a health professions training program–funding which an earlier committee report said were allocated because, “a key component of attaining universal health care reform will be ensuring the supply of primary care providers.”http://newstalkradiowhio.com/blogs/jamie…http://republicans.appropriations.house.…
bad news on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 11:18 pm
Has anyone ever seen a bill sponsored by democrats that wasn’t “stuffed” with pork? Probably never will either.
Jay D on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 11:19 pm
I understand where you are coming from. This Jobs Bill is so different from the Trillion dollar Stimulus Package that President Bush passed for Iraq.
You know that stimulus package the Republican’s passed so eagerly.
Mr. News
doctdon on Fri, 16th Oct 2009 11:47 pm
Did you really just copy and paste an article from newstalkradiowhio.com
Are you expecting people to take that seriously?
geoffsy3 on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:07 am
Amen!
Dirt Poor on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:27 am
Just can’t help themselves.
Joseph on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:46 am
They have to pay back the people that elected them.
LOL on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:48 am
Wait, I specifically heard Obama say, “We have cut all pork from this bill.” Surely he didn’t lie?
Nathan on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 1:11 am
THEY ARE TRYING TO GET ALL THOSE GOODIES THAT THEY HAVE BEEN DENIED FOR DECADES.
Warren T on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 1:53 am
as one of them (rahm emmanuel) said, it’d be a shame to waste a good crisis.
jeff m on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 2:15 am
So that they will get re-elected for the next 30 years or until the country collapses.
David L on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 2:22 am
Easy answer. Because they CAN and we the people have no say about it.
Poohcat1 on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 2:39 am
cause they finally control the white house and congress so they can finally pass all this pork that was put down in the past. Spend Spend Spend. We HAVE to stop this with our votes in 2010!!!!
jch on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 3:32 am
For the same reason that the Republicans crooks GAVE away trillions of dollars to incompetent CEO’s with no accountability or oversight, to spend on $10 million dollar Super Bowl parties and million dollar office make-overs and multi-million dollar BONUSES. For the same reason that the thugs also gave NO BID contracts again, with no oversight or accountability to KBR, Blackwater, and Halliburton.
NEITHER party gives a ratsa** about the American people OR how they spend OUR money.
I can’t BELIEVE that ALL of you are not OUTRAGED at this rape, pillage and plunder of OUR country by BOTH parties, or that you PREFER being plundered by one party over the other.
Partisan politics nauseate me.
mety on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:06 am
This “stimulus” package was voted on by a Congress that didn’t even have the opportunity to read the 1000+ pages of the thing. Most of them don’t have a clue what all is included in this dung heap of a bill and only voted for it because Nancy and Harry told them to. Throw in some pork for each Senator or Representative and viola, you get a yes vote.
Harry Reid (D-Nevada) somehow managed to get his little train from LA to Las Vegas thrown in for good measure. Isn’t that a surprise.
There are actually a few things in this bill that might possibly stimulate the economy in the short term. The majority of the package, if it has any stimulating effects at all, are YEARS down the road. Perhaps I’m a bit cynical, but I suspect we will be hearing how wonderful this thing is working just about in time for the next round of elections. And yes I know, we are all going to believe it.
poolplay on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:26 am
Because they CAN
I’m serious, even Nancy Pelosi said herself that these ‘projects’ were things the Democrats have been wanting to do for years
No one would let them get away with this bullshit until now, only Obama would go along with it and they knew it…So, they are throwing in everything they have ever been denied…They aren’t even trying to pretend that they don’t have a personal agenda anymore…They’re just throwing it into the faces of the American people because they know there’s nothing we can do to stop them now.
Rayne Storm on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:58 am
and?
Bobby R on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 5:49 am
because the economy has gone down the toilet and if they didn’t do anything we would sit around and complain about that too.