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Question by Call me-C-4-Curious-: Do you agree that our elected Republicans are right on wasteful list of spending?
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Do you agree w/ the house Republicans-List of wasteful provisions…?
On Monday, House Republican leaders put out a list of what they call wasteful provisions in the Senate version of the nearly _$ 900 billion_ stimulus bill that is being debated:

• $ 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) (global warming equipment?)

• $ 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.

• $ 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.” (what’s that?)

• $ 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. (I thought they were exempt from the Fed. government)

+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. (Obama’s youth?)

• $ 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. (paid volunteers?)

• $ 5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the
Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

• $ 850 million for Amtrak, a business that’s been losing money for the past 20 years. ( I think Amtrak should be revamped)

• $ 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. (but O wants to cut our nukes by 80 percent?)

*If you were voting to spend _our_ money, is this how you would be doing it under the guise of “stimulus”?*

*Kentucky wisdom: “If it smells like a pig, and squeals like a pig, and
eats any slop that you serve it, then it is certainly a politician that is
pushing pork into what they would argue should be a legitimate bill.*

*Note: House Republicians have identified the above as wasteful.

What do you think?***

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Answer by barefoot road
They are certainly the total experts on wasteful spending that destroyed America and put us in a Great Depression that will be worse than the 30’s, so I will say “yea”.

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