Green Builders Blog

Jesus has my soul asked:


• $1 billion for Amtrak (which hasn’t turned a profit in 40 years)
• $50 Million for The National Endowment for the Arts
• $400 million for global-warming
• $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
• $650 million for digital TV conversion coupons
• $600 million for the Federal Government to buy new hybrid cars
• $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings and facilities
• $81 billion for Medicaid
• $36 billion for expanded unemployment benefits
• $20 billion for food stamps
• $83 billion for the earned income credit for people who don’t pay income tax
• $252 billion is for income-transfer payments
• $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters
• $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
• $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 state and local fire stations
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property
• $160 million for volunteers at the Corporation for National Community Service
• $200 million for reseeding the grass on the National Mall
• $300 million for Government to purchase “green” electric golf carts

I can NOT turn the other cheek on this people I am asahmed of my fellow human beings for voting and accepting this…

Burton