OT: Government waste (BTW: it's OT!)

Bette B.
on 4/12/11 12:09 am

Yesterday's post regarding Planned Parenthood got some people ranting about what a waste of taxpayer's money it was though, how providing birth control and health care for women is WASTE, I have no idea.

But since some people need examples of TRUE government pork, here are some pork barrel projects from 2010. Keep in mind that these are YOUR taxes dollars at work!

www.cagw.org/assets/pig-book-files/2010/2010-pig-book-summar y.pdf

$4,841,000 for wood utilization research in 11 states

$2,573,000 for potato research in four states

$349,000 for swine and other waste management

$6,056,565,000 for 35 anonymous DEFENSE projects.

$1,875,000 for (Defense again) genetics studies of food allergies.

$500,000 by Del. Madeleine Bordallo (D-Guam) for a Brown Tree Snake program

$800,000 for a program researching algae-based renewable energy for Nevada;

$100,000 for a rainfall analysis in Hawaii.

$400,000 for the Wichita EcoPartnership for the Kansas World Trade Center; $350,000 for the Pomona Fairplex Trade and Conference Center; $134,000 for the Montana World Trade Center; and $100,000 for the Myrtle Beach International Trade and Conference Center.

$1,000,000 for the Idaho Sage-Grouse Management Plan

$500,000 for exhibits at the Czech and Slovak Museum and Library in Cedar Rapids;

$100,000 for internet-based foreign language programs at Carnegie Mellon University (which has an endowment of $1,061,625,145).

$250,000 for the I Won’t Cheat Foundation in Salt Lake City for an anti-steroids education program and awareness campaign.

$150,000 by Rep. Louise Slaughter (D-N.Y.) for exhibits and interactive displays at the Theodore Roosevelt Inaugural Site Foundation in Buffalo.

$11,270,000 for the East-West Center in Hawaii.

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girlygirl1313
on 4/12/11 12:13 am - Davidson, NC

DS on 07/22/10

This bull**** is why I'm Libertarian.

Bette B.
on 4/12/11 12:17 am

Lap Band on 12/02/03

LOL - "bull****" like my post, or "bull****" like government pork?

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chris_ruff
on 4/12/11 12:25 am

RNY on 04/07/09 with

i find that people always whine and cry about paying for government services that they don't personally use. but when it comes to the ones they do, then its a matter of entitlement. people need to face reality and realize that our government is for everybody, and yes, that means that they won't like every nickel that gets spent.

--Christina

girlygirl1313
on 4/12/11 12:37 am - Davidson, NC

DS on 07/22/10

It's all pork, and unfortunately this also includes gov subsidized women's health programs. PP should be left to the charitable contributions of the private sector, not because of any personal moral stance but because it falls outside the roll of US government.

Poor ole PP is being used as a political pawn by both Dems and Reps right now. If this org was left alone to sole private support, PP would be a non issue and what good would that do for anyone in DC?

~GG

Lisa_67
on 4/12/11 12:45 am - Ravenna, OH

RNY on 09/01/09

Potato research? How the hell do you do research on a potato and why am I paying for it? I could care less, plus I don't even buy or eat potatos anymore!