Wednesday, December 15, 2010

Liar Liar!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!


“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.


Dem Omnibus Bill Now $575 Million Per Page!


* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;
*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;
*National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
* The City of North Pole, Alaska (motto: “Where the Spirit of Christmas Lives Year Round”) gets $1 million to improve its wastewater treatment system. That’s $571.43 dollar per citizen.
* $1.75 million to acquire land for the Cape Cod National Seashore.
* $2.2 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in Geneva, NY
* $2.4 million for the Southeastern Poultry Research Lab in Athens, GA
* $42,000 for “Arbuscular Mycontizal Fungi” in Wyndmoor, PA
* $1 million for Corn and Soybean Research in Wooster, OH
* $1.8 million for the Honey Bee Lab in Weslaco, TX
* $1.8 million for Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Ames, Iowa
* $443,000 for Beaver Management and Control in Mississippi
* $208,000 for Beaver Management and Control in North Carolina
* Several hundred thousand for “Blackbird Management” programs in KS, LA, ND and SD.
* $657,000 for Brown Tree Snake Management in Guam
* $1,049,000 for “Mormon Crickets” in Utah (I am told they are neither Mormon nor are they crickets)
* $162,000 for Rodent Control in Hawaii
* $209,000 to “Improve Blueberry Production and Efficiency” in Georgia
* $254,00 for the “Montana Sheep Institute”
* $413,000 for Tri-State Joint Peanut Research in Alabama
* $2.9 million for Shrimp Aquaculture in AZ, HI, LA, MA, MS, SC and TX
* $277 million for 2nd Avenue Subway
* $210 million for LIRR terminal in Grand Central



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