Do You Agree With Chuck Schumer Americans Don’t Care If Liberal Thugs Shove Some “porky” Amendments In Hr 1?
“To all of the chattering class that so much focuses on those little, tiny, yes, porky amendments” — “the American people really don’t care.” — Chuck Schumerhttp://www.powerlineblog.com/archives/20…http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,4910…
Is there any Americans out there that don’t care about becoming a socialist country? Is there any Americans out there that don’t care that they stuffed the spending package with all of these “Porky” projects…?
How many of you that will never make million dollars at one time in your lifetime… don’t care that they’re throwing billions of your tax dollars into the air?
$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.”
Watchful Occupier on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 12:48 pm
“Do you agree with Chuck Schumer Americans don’t care if Liberal thugs shove some “Porky” amendments in HR 1?”
I have to agree with him. If Americans did care, Schumer, along with his other treasury looting friends, wouldnt have been elected to office
Jay D on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 1:12 pm
This type of spending can in no way help the economy. We are not in the financial shape to be on a spending spree like this.
bmovies6 on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 1:18 pm
Sadly he is right …… most people don’t take the time to even know what is in the spending package …… if it doesn’t effect them directly they have no idea what going on in the world …..
This is one of the reason that Obama got elected ….. people just believe what they hear and do no research of their own …http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=P36×8rTb3…
I believe that Peggy would be a good example of just that
Jakki S on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 2:09 pm
Chuck Schumer doesn’t care about the will of his constituents, which is pretty common among politicians.
Jon on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 3:02 pm
For the most part they don’t, because they believe it’s going to work in their best interest.
Pegasus on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 3:47 pm
Someday I’m sure I will agree with Schumer on something, depending on how much longer we have before the world ends. But that statement was about the most asinine thing to ever come out of his mouth!
Son of Liberty, JD on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:12 pm
No, i do not! Schumer should be taken out and executed by firing squad for making such a stupid statement
All My Love, Jeff on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:16 pm
One solution: “national strike, stop paying taxes”
OPV N on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 4:52 pm
The funds which you have listed look legit to me.
NONAME on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 5:24 pm
bawney fwank really enjoyed porking the bill if my sources are
reliable!!!
We Told You So on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 5:38 pm
Not for a second. I’m an American and I care very deeply that the government wastes my money on things I will never even be in a position to use.
DOOM on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 5:41 pm
How considerate that Schumer is of the people he represents. He’s apparently a sociopath just like the rest of his cronies.
Halsted on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 6:14 pm
The extreme left, the Obama, Pelosi, and Reed followers, are blind to the truth. There are many conservative Democrats that will be up in arms once all the details are open. They will feel like they were sold out by Obama. If the Republican Party can return to a true conservative party, or better yet, a good Libertarian candidate rises to the top, the Conservatives and Moderates from both party’s will seek change as we all are fed up with Liberal Democrats and Moderate Republicans.
bicycle to live on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 6:23 pm
Schumer is an idiot but in this case he may be right, we have a socialist run congress, senate and whitehouse, people had to know this would happen. Maybe they don’t care at least enough to keep electing these fools.
Swampy III on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 6:41 pm
Frankly, after the total failure of the conservative thugs to do anything good for our country, I don’t care what any of them say. You destroyed the economy, you destroyed many lives, you destroyed our constitution, so please would all conservative loonies please crawl back under your rock. You bet the US as you know it is going to change. If you don’t like it, just find some other little part of our planet to destroy. YOU LOST because you are LOSERS! Oh, BTW I really don’t care about the moronic Republicans picking out individual lines and reading them out of context. I especially don’t care about most of the things on your list that you consider “pork” and the rest of us think is long overdue spending. Republicans are the ones that f**ded it up. They certainly don’t have clue as to how to fix it!
bob on Sat, 17th Oct 2009 6:51 pm
Schumer is a bankster’s bankster puppet politician. A heartless, cold-blooded gangster from the big apple.
They seemed to be focused on Changes in social security and the u.s. census dept. With Rahm “the don” Emmanuel, it is the low water mark in American politics. We are knee deep in the big muddy. wake me when the shooting starts.
With Emmanuel, the takeover of the U.S. Census and billions for ACORN, i can sense which way the wind is blowing.
I just wonder who the military will follow when that happens.