A COUNTRY DIVIDED AGAINST ITSELF SURELY CANNOT STAND
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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