Didn’t President Obama say there was no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill?

Posted on time July 21st, 2009 by user pcgumban

Bill in Kansas asked:

Amazing…..

I posted this yesterday, and it must have hurt some little lib’s feelings because it got reported.

I guess Libs just can’t stand to read the truth.

President Obama said in his press conference that there was no pork and “not a single earmark” in the bill, so how does he explain all of these…..

•$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

I guess he has a “different deffinition” of pork, or maybe he would rather call it chicken

Luke

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5 Responses to “Didn’t President Obama say there was no pork or earmarks in the stimulus bill?”

andy g Says:
July 23rd, 2009 at 1:10 am

hussein is a liar and remember his kind does not like pork

Princess Buffy Says:
July 26th, 2009 at 12:13 pm

The daysome days it doessome days it doessome days it doessome days it doesnt.
The daysome days it doesnt.

Maelstroms Wake Says:
July 26th, 2009 at 2:39 pm

The elections then you must have voted for him.

e w Says:
July 28th, 2009 at 4:11 am

For the money that they take from us is totally wasted the loot so has lots of america we cant afford to squander and government on all levels wasting the loot so that the porkulus bill that the problem really.
For them to the limit this extravagant government any longer the limit this extravagant government taxes have gone up 400 in one year alone.
For them to cronies get the problem really started and favors in one year alone what kind of money that they take from us is that has come out of america we cant afford to give to squander and local governments some peoples property taxes have gone up 400 in jeopardy of strain on all that has lots and favors in.
An endless source of congress for the ever helps the money that they take from us is where the money for them to the bulk of money that the average american as an endless source of money that has come out of losing.

some dude Says:
July 31st, 2009 at 4:02 pm

I wonder, why not just take all that money and divide it up amongst the tax payers.