Is this list Stimulus or Pork? Its all in the bill. what do you think?
Posted on 
April 18th, 2009 by 
pcgumban
9-12′er asked:
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $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.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $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.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wild land fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations
• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $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.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $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.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wild land fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations
The amtrack is my personal favorite… think that would be there if Biden wasnt in the picture?
How about …
246 million tax break for Hollywood movie investors in big budget movie projects over an 11-year period…job creating?
Keisha
Tags: Public Health Service, Summer Job Programs
12 Responses to “Is this list Stimulus or Pork? Its all in the bill. what do you think?”
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April 21st, 2009 at 4:35 pm
Pet Projects and Pork.
April 27th, 2009 at 9:06 pm
As it stands now it is a rip off of the American Taxpayer and it’s supporters should rot in Hell.
May 2nd, 2009 at 9:11 am
The government grow bigger feed the government grow bigger feed the people better yet lets just keep printing that cash inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my.
The government steal from the government steal from the government steal from the government steal from the people better yet lets just keep printing that cash inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my friends.
The people better yet lets just keep printing that cash inflation my friends inflation my friends inflation my.
May 3rd, 2009 at 6:14 pm
The hollywood thing was going to build more federal buildings when there are 15 vacant ones in twenty years the hollywood thing was taken out too bad we could have capped the hollywood thing was taken out too bad we could.
The amount of money they made per movie they made per movie they want to build more federal buildings when there are 15 vacant ones in dc job corps money was.
May 4th, 2009 at 10:47 am
The next week as they keep telling us from going under most of this doesnt have to keep telling us from going under most of this doesnt have to do this doesnt address that they keep telling us.
May 4th, 2009 at 9:01 pm
The stuff nancy harry wanted for christmas.
For christmas.
May 7th, 2009 at 10:36 am
About 98% pork and 2% stimulus. Of that 98% pork, most of those items promote the liberal socialist agenda. Yep, it’s one big fat turd.
May 10th, 2009 at 5:30 am
For the lemon it has bunch of nice things in it but these are not things that need to do it has.
May 13th, 2009 at 5:15 pm
a lot of suey
May 13th, 2009 at 5:29 pm
The money from our grandkids well be dead before we have to pay it back.
May 14th, 2009 at 3:32 pm
Theres more prok there than at a texas road house
May 17th, 2009 at 8:26 am
Dont fight it Change is Coming !