Tuesday, November 3, 2009

Obama/Pelosi's Porkulus - Some Details

Courtesy of Susan Ferrechio of the Washington Examiner, here is a list of some of the wonderful uses your Federal Government has found for that $787,000,000,000 stimulus bill that Pelosi rammed down our throats back in February. Calm yourself, this will make your blood boil ....

- $300,000 for a helicopter to search for radioactive rabbit turds at the Hanford Nuclear Reservation

- $30,000,000 for a baseball spring traiing facility to be used by the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies

- $430,000 to repair a bridge in Wisconsin that carries fewer than 10 cars a day

- $11,000,000 to build a bridge to connect Microsoft's two Redmond campuses, currently seperated by a road

- $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown Pennsylvania, to add a second runway. The airport serves an average of 20 passengers a day

- $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex habits of freshman women

- $2,500,000 in stimulus checks sent to deceased persons, subsequently lost, stolen, or cashed by unintended persons

- $2,300,000 for the US Forestry Service to breed large numbers of bugs, including such winners as the Asian Longhorned Beetle, the Wooly Adelgid, and the Nun Moth

- $3,400,000 for a tunnel for turtles to use to cross a road in Lake Jackson Florida (I'm sure the wildlife is smart enough to read the signs directing them to the opening!)

- $1,150,000 to install a guardrail on a dry lake bed in Oklahoma

- $9,380,000 to refurbish a railroad station in lancaster County Pennsylvania - a station that has not been used in over 30 years

- $6,000,000 for a snow making machine in DULUTH MINNESOTA

- $173,834 to winterize six pickup trucks in Madison County Illinois

- $20,000 for a fish sperm freezer at Gavins Point Fish Hatchery in South Dakota (what, they couldn't buy one at Sears?)

- $380,000 to spay and neuter pets in Wichita Kansas

- $300 apiece for thousands of road signs to be placed at construction zones announcing that the project was being funded by stimulus money

- $1,500,000 for a fence to block suicide jumpers on the All American Bridge in Akron Ohio

- $1,000,000 to study the effects of environmentally friendly housing for 300 people in Chicago

- $356,000 for an Indiana University study of how children recognize foreign accents

- $983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor Michigan

- $148,438 for a Washington State University study on the affects of marijuana in conjunction with other drugs like morphine

- $462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for the Mark Twain National Forest

- $3,100,000 to transform a barge into a floting museum that will travel the Lake Erie Canal in New York

- $1,300,000 for government sponsored art projects in Maine

- $71,000 for a hybrid car for student drivers in Vermont, decked out with signage touting the car's energy efficiency

- $1,000,000 for Portland Oregon to replace aging bike locks and build a garage to house 250 bicycles

Thanks to Senator Tom Coburn (R-OK), the Senate Minority Leader, for digging this info out and posting it on hie official web site.

Doesn't this make you feel good about Obama's Hope and Change?

THIS IS OUR MONEY. The bastards running Congress and sitting in the White House told us this $787 ,000,000,000 was desperately needed to bring our economy back from the brink. Instead, this is the bullshit they wasted it on.

Obama, Pelosi, Reid ... should not only be thrown out of office, but should be thrown in jail for stealing our money and lying to us about it. How can we believe anything these crooks, these idiots tell us? And now we're supposed to trust them with 1/6th of our economy, and to oversee all aspects of our healthcare system. NO!!!!!!!!!!

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

These are the things we expected out of this congress, so i am not shocked. The people who should join our rightous anger are those foolish peole who were niave and believed Obama would make a change. Of course those people probably won't read what either of us write so the question i am concerned with is, as you have pointed out inprevios blogs,how do we get mainstream Americans to see the truth when the media is filtering out things that show O in a negative light?

Margot said...

I am trying to figure out why they would have to pay anybody to study the sexual habits of freshman woman at Syracuse - I would think there would be volunteers lining up.