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$650 million to help Americans upgrade to digital cable NO! - Delay the transition a year or two - what's the hurry anyway?
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$44 million to repair and improve the headquarters of the Department of Agriculture NO! make do
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$276 million to upgrade and modernize information technology at the State Department. NO! make do
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$3.1 billion to fund “infrastructure projects” on federal land, including $1.8 billion for the National Park Service, $650 million for the U.S. Forest Service, and $300 million for the National Fish Hatcheries. NO! make do with your current budgets
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$600 million for NASA, including $400 million for projects such as “satellite sensors that measure solar radiation critical to understanding climate change.” ...oh Hell no!
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$1.9 billion for the Department of Energy for “basic research into the physical sciences,” Nope, not this year, sorry
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$209 million for maintenance work at the federal Agricultural Research Service’s research facilities now what research can they do that Monsanto hasn't done already? NO!
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$400 million in repairs to various “national treasures,” they can wait another year or three
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$850 million for “wildland fire management,” including $550 million to states for “volunteer fire assistance,” - Ok to the fire management part, city forest stuff can wait
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$400 million for “habitat restoration” projects to be doled out by the National Oceanographic and Atmospheric Administration. NO - We citizens are more worried about our own habitat, thanks all the same
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$2.7 billion for “rural water and waste disposal” grant programs for providing loans for digging wells it can wait - NO!
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$2 billion to provide day care services to 300,000 additional low-income children, ostensibly while their parents are at work. ostensibly? how about, paystub or no daycare, and a limit on kids?
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$1.2 billion to create an estimated 1 million summer jobs for young people. that's what, 100K per job ? Hell NO!
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$2.5 billion to upgrade government-owned housing projects with new insulation, windows, and furnaces. deal with what you have for now - We taxpayers are worried about our own furnaces.
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$6.2 billion to weatherize the homes of low-income people to make them more energy efficient. - shouldn't the landlord be doing this? this program is years old, just how many houses are left to weatherize? NO.
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$2.4 billion for projects demonstrating carbon-capture technology. NOT ON YOUR LIFE
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$600 million to “prepare our country for universal healthcare” by training more doctors, dentists, and nurses. - since "we" haven't passed 'universal healthcare' isn't it a little soon to be jumping the gun on this? NO!
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$1.5 billion to build new “Community Health Centers.” NO! use existing facilities.
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$20 billion to provide “nutrition assistance” for middle-income families and to lift restrictions on how long people can receive food stamps. Food police? NO!
sounds like thousands of new government or low-paying-entry-level jobs to me, and not much for the private sector - get back to the drawing board, Congress and come up with something real!
that was fun!
Best regards, blu
Where’s the business case on how this list of pork stimulates the economy?!
The only thing this list ‘o spending is stimulating is my sense of frustration, sense of anger, contempt for those who insult taxpayers by writing it.
Worse, no one in our new Democrat leadership will have the commons sense or balls to stop this train wreck.
$650M for the digital cable upgrade???? My head is about to explode.