Pork Report October 22, 2009: Vegas Neon Museum
by The Pork ReportLas Vegas Boulevard, littered with strip bars and casinos, named a National Scenic Byway, making it eligible for federal funds to promote the strip
Las Vegas’ Neon Museum receives $300,000 federal grant to restore two signs
National park superintendent who viewed thousands of sexually explicit images on a government computer during work hours will not be fired and has been reassigned to another job within the National Park Service
Washington Wine Commission receives federal funds to promote wine in Mexico and India
Federal funds to teach wine-makers about popular varieties of grapes
The $3.7 million Department of Education grant will pay to teach the Tlingit language, currently spoken by less than 200 people
$446,000 federal grant paid for a 10-day Tlingit language immersion retreat at Glacier Bay Lodge for a few more than 30 people
The Center for Wooden Boats receives federal stimulus funds to hire an assistant boatwright
Michigan Department of Human Services may have improperly spent $163.8 million of federal dollars intended to assist vulnerable children
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Is America really that stupid ? Are we? her interview on CNBC …. "it eleminating a tax decrease" – this is why Democrats vote on anything….. They freaking don't understand and Nancy basically says "Their to stupid to understand" – Geez!!! So it's not an increase Nancy ??
House Speaker NANCY PELOSI: That wasn't a tax increase. It is- it is- eliminating a tax- decrease that was there. It's- it was controversial to begin with. It is- a boon to those who have had it for now. But I think that you will see that happen. So- and that is- that affects, what? The upper two percent of our population. What we're trying to do is lower co- taxes for the middle class, relieve burdens- on business. So that we can be competitive in job creation. And I think you'll see some interesting things emerge- from the conversations we're having now.
Sorry …forgot
http://www.cnbc.com/id/33419185
Sipping wine, learning tlinqit, while sailing on a wooden boat. How sweet it is. Wish you were here!!
Pork Report:
I'd like to know what the salaries are, of the upper management echelon of ACORN. As Citizens, and taxpayers of a Federally funded Crimina Enterprise, we are entitled to know that.
Further, as it relates to ACORN, I want to know if WE are going to be PORKED again on midnight 31 October when you release their funding……….
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If the lamestream media did its job, the waste of taxpayer money would be printed in our newspapers and they wouldn't be seeking a bailout because everyone would be buying them.
But some of these funds are within the purview of government to spend–if Wisconsin can sell more grapes, that's a good thing, right? It's $35,000.
And this:
Ethnic Heritage Council, the Center for Wooden Boats, and the Wing Luke Asian Museum. In dollar terms, the three groups received a total of $35,000, or 14 percent, of the city’s $250,000 pot. The $35,000 will preserve three jobs: an assistant director at EHC, an assistant boatwright at CWB, and a tour registrar at Wing Luke.
I'm all for finding and exposing pork, but these aren't big deals nor are they serious mis-use of public funds.
I'll wager wine (or any intoxicant) is the only economic sector which needs no stimulus these days.
Now imagine, instead of spending nearly a trillion on pork projects, the Obama Administration cut the corporate tax rate (higher in the US than most of the world), allowed more domestic oil production (reducing the cost of everything, freeing up consumer spending, creating jobs), cut personal income taxes a bit, and cut back on some of the federal red tape businesses face to get anything done.
Anyone — really — think the funemployment rate would be up two percent above where they claimed it would max out with the 'stimulus' bill? If yes, please run to your nearest community college for a simple microeconomics course.
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