Do You Think Your MONEY Has Been Wasted on the Stimulus?
Question by I bet ya!: Do you think your MONEY has been wasted on the Stimulus?
This is what “SOME” of your money that will be paid by your GREAT, GREAT Grand children will be paying for.
2050:
Grandpa…..what the HELL am I paying for that your generation did back in 2009
$ 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.
• $ 525 million for the Washington DC 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 wild land 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
That’s over 124 BILLION dollars in pork.
I’m especially fond of the 75 million to pay for salaries in the FBI. Were their projections so bad that they are already out of money, or is this evidence of Obama re-instating the failed Clinton policy of treating the Global War on Terror as a police activity?
How about another 650 billion to allow people to buy TV converters for the switch to digital. I never spent my expired coupons- how many other people ordered them and didn’t spend them? How much money has fallen through the cracks on this already?
400 million to prevent STD’s. I have one comment- zip up your fly- it’ll save us 400 million dollars.
Lastly 2 BILLION DOLLARS to fund a clean coal plant that has already been deemed a failure.
3 Million for the First Lady’s closet re-do
Best answer:
Answer by BekindtoAnimals22
Completely wasted. A doctor asked a question earlier today. He said his hospital was given 1.2 million dollars which he thought would be used to by a new MRI machine. It was used to hire 8 people to find out if the patients like the food. Need I say more?
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