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Monday, February 9, 2009

Money Doesn't Grow on Trees...PORK DOES

President Obama has said it over and over...there is NO Pork in this bill. He's wrong. Below is a list released by Senator Tom Coburn's office. It is not a total list but a "quick look" many of these programs may be justified, BUT NOT AS A STIMULUS.


Wasteful and Non-Stimulative Spending in Nelson-Collins Substitute

$2 billion earmark for FutureGen near zero emissions power plant in Mattoon, IL
$39 billion slush fund for "state fiscal stabilization" bailout
$5.5 billion for making federal buildings "green" (including $448 million for DHS HQ)
$200 million for workplace safety in USDA facilities
$275 million for flood prevention
$65 million for watershed rehabilitation
$200 million for public computer centers at community colleges and libraries
$650 million for the DTV transition coupon program
$307 million for constructing NIST office buildings
$1 billion for administrative costs and construction of NOAA office buildings
$100 million for constructing U.S. Marshalls office buildings
$300 million for constructing FBI office buildings
$800 million for constructing Federal Prison System buildings and facilities
$10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners
$1.3 billion for NASA (including $450 million for "science" at NASA)
$100 million to clean up sites used in early U.S. atomic energy program
$10 million for urban canals
$2 billion for manufacturing advanced batteries for hybrid cars
$1.5 billion for carbon capture projects under sec. 703 of P.L. 110-140 (though section only authorizes $1 billion for five years)
$300 million for hybrid and electric cars for federal employees
$198 million to design and furnish the DHS headquarters
$255 million for "priority procurements" at Coast Guard (polar ice breaker)
$500 million for State and local fire stations
$180 million for construction of Bureau of Land Management facilities
$500 million for wildland fire management
$110 million for construction for the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service
$522 million for construction for the Bureau of Indian Affairs
$650 million for abandoned mine sites
$75 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$1.2 billion for summer jobs for youth
$412 million for CDC headquarters
$500 million earmark for NIH facilities in Bethesda, MD
$160 million for "volunteers" at the Corp. for National and Community Service
$750 earmark for the National Computer Center in MD
$224 million for International Boundary and Water Commission – U.S. and Mexico
$850 million for Amtrak
$100 million for lead paint hazard reduction

1 comment:

Findalis said...

I agree with a few of the pork:

$275 million for flood prevention (this will save us billions later on and it will make jobs [ditch digger type, but a job is a job]).

$10 million to fight Mexican gunrunners (it should be billions. Not just gunrunners, but drug and people smugglers. Expand the border patrol and let them have a free reign. Build a true fence on the border).

You see 2 good ideas that need bigger funding.