Found this today from CNN! Fit so well with my previous post, thought I would include it.
More earmarks from the stimulus package! Take a look at some of these!
• $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.
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• $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 wildland 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.
Make sure to write, call or email your representative and tell them what an outrage this is!
Showing posts with label bailout. Show all posts
Showing posts with label bailout. Show all posts
Wednesday, February 04, 2009
Tuesday, February 03, 2009
Bailout Package
Hi All!
Heading to a board of aldermen meeting here in an hour or so and had a few minutes to write while Maddie is watching Andy Griffith and I am watching the snow fall. I hope that it sticks around!
Well, the title of this piece is about the bailout...I don't have a tremendous amount to say, or a great deal of details but it does reinforce several principles that I believe in:
*Any bill sent through the House or Senate should be "clean"--no stuff attached to it, no special projects, nothing to sweeten or entice representatives--simply put "No Pork" and the president (whoever he may be at the time) should have line-item veto.
*Remember back in October, when the world as we knew it was going to simply cease to exist? Banks would go belly-up the next day, bread lines would form, the value of the dollar would plummet further than it already has and gas lines formed while gas prices soared? The BIG government (including folks I voted for & some I didn't) demanded a HUGE bailout--immediately...WELL, here we are, still no bailout and now we are in the midst of spend, spend, spend...here comes INFLATION!
*Could you use a million or two, or heck say a couple hundred thousands...well, while you and I cut our personal budgets, cease to spend on any extras and basically go on a pinto bean diet...the government wants to borrow and spend MORE of your hard-earned money! I don't suggest that we borrow money from China to give each taxpaying American a portion, I say, we don't borrow at all...
*IF WE DO BORROW...we must focus-focus! Housing--not bailing folks out, but making more money available to borrow to the average American...allow money to get to "Joe-Investor" who will buy up the foreclosures and short sales...they can fix them up, rent them out to the folks who have been displaced and eventually as the housing market stabilizes, they will sell them...contractors will be employed, goods will exchange hands, laborers will be back in business...FIX HOUSING & BANKING, not the arts, or contraceptive programs, or museums, FIX THE BASICS!
*Support the folks who don't take government dollars...THERE ARE BANKS out there who had good, solid lending practices. They loaned to folks who had good credit, assets and money down...yes times may be hard for these folks, but they are paying their bills and other people's too! Some of these banks turned down TARP money--yes, you heard me right! Turned it down! They are cautious and understand that taking government bailout money makes them beholden to the government...Keep in mind Ben Franklin's mantra: A government big enough to help you is a government big enough to control you....that's paraphrased folks and could have been Thomas Jefferson...nevertheless, you get my point!
Heading to a board of aldermen meeting here in an hour or so and had a few minutes to write while Maddie is watching Andy Griffith and I am watching the snow fall. I hope that it sticks around!
Well, the title of this piece is about the bailout...I don't have a tremendous amount to say, or a great deal of details but it does reinforce several principles that I believe in:
*Any bill sent through the House or Senate should be "clean"--no stuff attached to it, no special projects, nothing to sweeten or entice representatives--simply put "No Pork" and the president (whoever he may be at the time) should have line-item veto.
*Remember back in October, when the world as we knew it was going to simply cease to exist? Banks would go belly-up the next day, bread lines would form, the value of the dollar would plummet further than it already has and gas lines formed while gas prices soared? The BIG government (including folks I voted for & some I didn't) demanded a HUGE bailout--immediately...WELL, here we are, still no bailout and now we are in the midst of spend, spend, spend...here comes INFLATION!
*Could you use a million or two, or heck say a couple hundred thousands...well, while you and I cut our personal budgets, cease to spend on any extras and basically go on a pinto bean diet...the government wants to borrow and spend MORE of your hard-earned money! I don't suggest that we borrow money from China to give each taxpaying American a portion, I say, we don't borrow at all...
*IF WE DO BORROW...we must focus-focus! Housing--not bailing folks out, but making more money available to borrow to the average American...allow money to get to "Joe-Investor" who will buy up the foreclosures and short sales...they can fix them up, rent them out to the folks who have been displaced and eventually as the housing market stabilizes, they will sell them...contractors will be employed, goods will exchange hands, laborers will be back in business...FIX HOUSING & BANKING, not the arts, or contraceptive programs, or museums, FIX THE BASICS!
*Support the folks who don't take government dollars...THERE ARE BANKS out there who had good, solid lending practices. They loaned to folks who had good credit, assets and money down...yes times may be hard for these folks, but they are paying their bills and other people's too! Some of these banks turned down TARP money--yes, you heard me right! Turned it down! They are cautious and understand that taking government bailout money makes them beholden to the government...Keep in mind Ben Franklin's mantra: A government big enough to help you is a government big enough to control you....that's paraphrased folks and could have been Thomas Jefferson...nevertheless, you get my point!
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