Saturday, December 12, 2009

A post from December 16 2009

Stimulus Bill Pork spending: - House approves 447 billion spending measure.
  • $54 Million dollars for a CA Wine Train
  • $2.2 Million dollars for Failing golf course in San Francisco, CA
  • $1.5 Million dollars for Fossil research in Argentina (Not even spent in the US)
  • $750k for puppet shows and clown theaters
  • $400k for malt liquor and marijuana journals
  • $200k for college hook up study
  • $500k for facebook study
  • $220k for rats and bird study and ant division of labor
When is enough, enough.  Does the American people even know about this? Check out even more below:
  • "Obama spokesman said while there maybe be a few unwise programs out there but its small in comparison to 50k new programs approved"
  • New omnibus spending bill is over 2400k
  • Republicans slide in more pork barrel spending
  • 7 million jobs lost since resession started in 2007 - 4 million since Obama took office
  • Before Obama one employee making 170k in Department of transportaion. Today 1,671 employees
  • Average government employee 71k.  Average private sector: 40k
  • 1,700 employees got raises in the FAA, but they want to restrict private CEOs.
Congress just passed bill that would give power to congress to break up companies that threaten and are a danger to the economy.

Enivormental Protection Agency:
  • EPA rules CO2 must be regulated and considered dangerous.
  • EPA clean water restoration ACT: Control all waters in the United States would be in violation of interstate commerce laws.

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