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Posted on 10/20/2007 8:31:36 PM PDT by STARWISE
$1 Million Earmark Removed From Health Bill
Plans for $1 million in federal funding for a museum to honor the 1969 Woodstock Music Festival struck a sour note with critics Thursday.
It ended badly, with critics successfully striking down the plan for federal tax money to be spent on the museum.
The plan began as an earmark in the federal health and education spending bill.
Sen. Hillary Clinton and Sen. Chuck Schumer, both of New York, supported the earmark.
Critics, though, targeted the plan after it gained some national exposure.
“The Woodstock museum is a shining example of what’s wrong with Washington on pork-barrel, out-of-control spending,” said John McCain, Arizona senator and presidential hopeful.
“The earmark pork-barrel spending has made the American people disenchanted and angry,” McCain said.
Sens. Jon Kyl, R-Ariz, and Tom Coburn, R-Okla., moved Thursday to strip the Woodstock earmark from the health and education bill.
They won a key 52-42 vote and the earmark was dropped.
Ohio’s two senators were split on the issue, according to The Associated Press.
Sen. George Voinovich voted to kill the earmark. Sen. Sherrod Brown voted to keep it.
In a written statement, Coburn said the health and education bill should fund just that, health and education.
“I’m pleased my colleagues took a bold stand today in defense of common sense and rejected the self-interested parochial politics that have disillusioned millions of Americans. Maybe this is the dawning of the Age of Aquarius for taxpayers,” Coburn said.
The Woodstock museum is due to open next year in the upstate New York town of Bethel.
Supporters of the earmark said the federal funding would spur economic development and tourism.
Critics called it a hippie museum and a taxpayer-funded LSD flashback.
HOOOORRRAAAYYYYY! They held a mini Woodstock at the former Rome Air Base a few years back and it was horrible, just like the original. I don’t think the folks living in and around Rome ever want them back again.
a: NO
b: NO
c: YES, a local farmer actually worked on the farm where they held it, the Yazur farm.
d: 68
A friend of mine was working on that farm at the time and he said it was disgusting. People were screwing practically on the streets, drugs, filthy mess, etc. Thanks but no thanks.
Don’t take the brown acid man !
Now how can I argue with logic like that? If I wanted to I'd go over to DU.
They left a heck of a mess. Lots of garbage. Calling it an “environmental disaster” is the kind of nonsense Algore spouts. Or Micheal Moore. Absurd.
The Yazgur farm.
However the field where the concert was held is not for sale.The nearby alfalfa field where the concert was held isn't included in the sale. It's owned by cable magnate Alan Gerry, who turned it into the 4,800-seat Bethel Woods Center last summer.
Something is there already & we don't need to put anything up. People can still go there & see where it was & we don't have to worry about it. That settles it for me.
” OK folks...Fess up..
(A) where you there?
(B) Whould you have liked to have been there?
(C) Did u actually know anyone that was there?
(D) How old are you? “
A) Yes
B) -
C) Yes .
D) 55
What is your point ?
Oh baloney. Please spare me that line. Rape is rape and if a girl is raped she either reports it or doesn't. Even back then. Even now women don't report it & it has nothing to do with the next hit of the drug du jour. Some woman don't have it in them to go through all the questions etc & others will. It depends on who you are & how strong a person you are. Its not an easy thing to go through.
The world is going to hell, but Woodstock must be remembered.
OK folks...Fess up
(A) where you there?...............................NO
(B) Whould you have liked to have been there?......NO
(C) Did u actually know anyone that was there?.....No
(D) How old are you?..................OLDER THAN DIRT
Godspeed
Oh I know that, pandy. Some people just think they know it all.
It’s kind of funny that Woodstock didn’t happen anywhere near Woodstock. It’s in a Summer retreat area for the N.Y.N.Y. Hasidim folks.
Excellent idea.
Paging David Crosby.......Graham Nash.....etc...
Now why would hillary wand to steal a million for the hippie museum>
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