The Pork Report, January 26, 2009: Atlantic City Edition
by The Pork ReportFederal budget deficit will reach $1.35 trillion in 2010, and Congress is already planning to borrow billions more to pay for a new jobs bill and another war funding bill
Most TSA employees to receive performance-based pay hikes
Taxpayers spent more than $1.1 million to send members of Congress and their staff on junkets to the Copenhagen Climate Summit in Denmark
More than half of the companies that have received federal stimulus dollars to do highway work in Massachusetts have a history of breaking the law
Monterey wine association receives $98,5000 federal stimulus grant
$2 million of federal stimulus money paying to teach Ohio residents how to cut, color and style hair
Atlantic City spends federal stimulus money to pay for more than $276,000 worth of playground equipment
Nearly three out of four Americans think that at least half of the money spent in the federal stimulus plan has been wasted, according to a new CNN poll
Texas spends federal transportation funds on “spectacular” rest areas that include “state-of-the-art” vending machines and even a Battleship Texas restoration project
Louisiana spent millions of dollars of federal funds intended for health care for low income and uninsured patients to pay for the state’s hazardous road claims
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How is it that in a recession government workers are getting pay raises? The TSA especially. I guess they must've met their quotas for frisking 80 year old Methodist women in wheelchairs.
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So, money spent to hire Americans and for Americans to improve America is pork…….but handing way more money to a foreign country that has killed Americans and engenders hatred toward Americans is not? Seems the most pork is going to those who won't even eat it.
Didn't we know there would be waste of that money? Now it's up to watchdogs to report in where and how much. The Dems are confused as to WHY Americans are ticked off? LMAO! I really think it's long overdue to be time for a complete cleanout of DC. Incumbants beware. RINO's beware. People like me have HAD ENOUGH! It's time for real change…new blood and fresh faces that lack spaghetti strings to various political machines.
There are two kinds of earmarks. If they are mine; they are good, but, if they are yours; they are bad. Get it right and drop the PC. Earmarks = Bribes
Just to put this into perspective:
During 2009, the federal budget deficit and the income tax receipts for the Federal government were about equal. That means that not just the rich, but EVERY man, woman, and child in America would have to pay DOUBLE the taxes just to pay the deficit.
http://www.nola.com/politics/index.ssf/2010/01/ac...
I was at the South Bend Airport last Saturday and observed twelve (12) TSA Employees sitting around in a circle facing each other chatting and joking around, oblivious to what was going on around them. I walked around the small airport and their were more TSA employees than people awaiting flights. None of them were doing what might be considered work at a job site never mind being conscientious about safety or travel. In fact I could have walked into the terminal without any of them noticing. I am certain of it because they could not see the terminal exit from where they were clustered. They were in this position for over half an hour before they dispersed, apparently to go home after a hard days work. Feel safe yet. Pour a few more billions down the government sewer and take your shoes off for these jokers. We are being played for suckers…
I just wonder if Obama is counting that as a job saved?
It seems like money wasted to me.
Damn, I live in Ohio, I'm gonna' have to get in on that cut,style,color my hair stimulus bail-me-out thingy.
………………..Hanzo
Yes it is pork, dork. The private sector is supposed to have that role. Hey, I've got a suggestion, how about lowering tax rates and restrictions/regulations that are strangling small business owners all across America?
Oh crap. that's not 'progressive', is it? …………………………Hanzo
Here's another novel idea for ya', courtesy of the late, great Ronald Reagan~ "Government dosen't spend more than it takes in", genius!! ………………………………Hanzo
Yeah, private sector gonna build a park? LOL! No profit in that.
Hey, I've got a suggestion, how about lowering tax rates and restrictions/regulations that are strangling small business owners all across America
Sounds great. Stop giving that money away to Israel (and to Egypt BECAUSE we give it to Israel) and stop fighting wars for Israel. We could save a bundle. Stop exporting our jobs and importing our products. These are common-sense things.
And I understand that this administration has no business or economic people in it. No wonder that they are spending money like monopoly money. We're dealing with "idiots" and I do not believe that our economy can survive this presidential administration! Oh, wait a minute. That's right, this is a Marxist takeover, isn't it?
Didn't take long, did it? Did I say stop all govrnment spending, especially public works? No, I didn't. As usual,you use your typical ruse of try to take attention away from the subject, Israel this, Isarel that, the Jews this, the Jews that. What would you know about common sense, obviously, nada……………….Hanzo
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Don't you have a book burning or something like that to go to, you little bed-wetting Nazi?
No more "stimulus" boondoggles! You've stolen enough already to buy another country! When will it end?
You can' talk about pork without bringing up the $1.8 million "Hog Manure Odor Abatement" allotment.
Gotta make up those 1,500,000 – 2,000,000 created or saved jobs somehow.
Reading about fraud waste and abuse on a web page is great but it does not reach the nation. I wish there was a major ad in a major paper taken out on a whole page dedicated to citing the waste in the Stimulus Plan like 2 million for teaching hair styling. Along with citing the waste, cite the State, the district, and the Congress person from that district. Obviously that Congress person ask for the funds wasted. Picture, name and party would expose this corrupt Congress and White House.
"TSA" and "performance-based" do not ever belong in the same sentence.
How Glorious it will be to see little O'Keefe and Friends behind bars in a Louisiana federal prison! THAT is what I want to see on video.
I know I wonder how their asses will hold uP! Pimp N ain't a thing to me Too Short