Are This Wasteful Spening in the Stimulus Bill?
Question by Rick: Are this wasteful spening in the stimulus bill?
http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/02/02/gop.stimulus.worries/index.html
$ 2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $ 246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $ 650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $ 88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $ 448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $ 248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $ 600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $ 400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD’s.
• $ 1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
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• $ 125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $ 150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $ 1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $ 3 billion.
• $ 75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”
• $ 200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $ 75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $ 25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $ 500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $ 10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $ 6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.
• $ 500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $ 650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $ 1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.
• $ 88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $ 412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $ 500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $ 160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $ 5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.
• $ 850 million for Amtrak.
• $ 100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $ 75 million to construct a “security training” facility for State Department Security officers when they can be trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $ 110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $ 200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
Best answer:
Answer by jdrumming
Yes. Because some of the money should be spent helping people learn the English language well enough to ask a question.
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