Oh Where, Oh Where Have The Stimulus Funds Been Wasted?

The Porkulus(Stimulus)
is filled



with soooooo
much Pork. . . .



that I can smell the
bacon all the way here. . .
(wherever you live)



all the way
from Washington D.C.







Here are some examples of many of the wasteful projects that Dirty Harry, Slicky Dickie, and Wicked Witch Pelosi of the West authorized when voting YES to pass PORKULUS, and in doing so wasted loads of taxpayer money.




1)The Stimulus Package vital water pumps in California were shut down to protect a 2-inch minnow called the Delta Smelt. Two-Thirds of the farmers in CA depend on this water for the growth of their crops.



And this is so ridiculous. . . .


the damn fish are causing. . . .




80,000 people to lose their jobs and raising the unemployment rate for both cities of Mendota and Firebaugh to 41% unemployment, the highest in the nation.





2) Non-Existent Oklahoma Lake in Line for Over $1 Million ToConstruct a New Guardrail Optima Lake was built in the 1960's but one huge problem still exists today. The lake NEVER filled up with water. In 1997, Alan Riffel, then-City Manager of nearbyWoodward, Oklahoma, called the lake, “one of Oklahoma’s greatest boondoggles.”




3) South Dakota fish hatchery to spend half of a $20,000 grant on a freezer for fish sperm.

4) The U.S. Department of the Interior will spend $280 million on wildlife refuges and fish hatcheries, $630,000 on a bridge at the National Bison Range, and $249,000 for solar panels at Ennis Fish Hatchery. Refuges and hatcheries in Montana will receive about $3 million of theInterior Department's stimulus spending at Ennis Fish Hatchery


5) Federal stimulus cash paying for a fish hatchery and a new visitor center in Missouri. $2.9 million will go to a new Mingo National Wildlife Refuge visitor center in Missouri, and an additional $940,000 will go for solar power at a Fish Hatchery.







Rev. Jeremiah The Bullfrog spewed speech like "God D**n" America" and Obama listened in one a pew for over 20 years. Now Obama says YES to the fishies, but NO to Americans and their jobs.




6) $800,000 for little-used Johnstown, Pennsylvania airport to repave a back-up runway; the “Airport for Nobody” Has Already Received Tens of Millions in Taxpayer dollars




The airport is called John Murtha Airport



7) Little-Used “Shovel-Ready” Bridges in Rural Wisconsin Given Priority Over Widely Used Structurally Deficient Bridges.



8) Pawtucket, Rhode Island spending $550,000 on a skateboard park.

9) The Florida Department of Transportation plans to spend $128 million on the proposed Indian Street Bridge, though it does not yet have all the property it needs. The proposed funding of $128 million will be used to build a bridge a quarter of a mile away from an existing bridge, but it is unclear whether it is “shovel-ready.” According to CNN, “the state has yet to buy all the property it needs for the right-of-way leading to the bridge."

10) Virginia will spend $340,000 on a rural bridge that carries only 20 cars a day. The Rock Creek Road bridge leads to a gravel road with seven houses. Two residents of Rock Creek Road said they had not realized the bridge was in disrepair and were not sure that was the best use of the stimulus funds. VDOT officials say their top priority in choosing projects was how quickly they could get started.





11) “Microsoft Bridge” in Seattle will receive $11 million in stimulus funds. Despite having nearly $20 billion in cash reserves, Microsoft will be the prime beneficiary of $11 million for construction of a bridge to connect the two campuses of its headquarters. Separated by a
highway, the Microsoft headquarters outside of Seattle in Redmond, Washington will now be
linked by an unusual diagonally shaped bridge, once construction is completed.







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A Proposal to Eliminate Waste in Our Government

I just received this in an email from my dad, and I thought everyone would enjoy this poem as well. I absolutely love it!!

A SENSIBLE SUGGESTION
"The Proposal"

When a company falls on
difficult times, one of the
thingsthat seems to happen
is they reduce their staff and
workers. The remaining
workers must find ways to
continue to do a good
job or risk that their job
would be eliminated as
well. Wall street, and
the media normally
congratulate the CEO
for making this type of
"tough decision", and
his board of directors
gives him a big
bonus. Our government
should not be immune
from similar risks.

Therefore:
Reduce the House of
Representatives from the
current 435 members to
218 members.
Reduce
Senate (members
from 100 to 50 one per
State).
Then, reduce their staff
by 25%.
Accomplish this over the
next 8 years (two steps/two elections),
and of course this would
require some redistricting.

Some Yearly Monetary
Gains Include:

$44,108,400 for
elimination of base
pay for congress. (267 members
X $165,200 pay/member/ yr.)

$97,175,000 for
elimination of their staff.
(estimate $1.3 Million
in staff per
each member of the House,
and $3 Million
in staff per each send a
member of the Senate every year)

$240,294 for the
reduction in remaining
staff by 25%.

$7,500,000,000 reduction
in pork barrel ear-marks
each year. (those
members whose jobs are
gone. Current estimates
for total government
pork earmarks are
at $15 Billion/yr).

The remaining
representatives would
need to work smarter
and
improve efficiencies.
It might even be in
their best interests
to work together
for the good of our country!
We may also expect
that smaller committees
might lead to
a more efficient
resolution of issues
as well.
It might even
be easier to
keep track of what
your representative is doing.
Congress has more
tools available to do
their jobs than it had
back in 1911 when the
current number of
representatives was
established. (telephone,
computers, cell phones
to name a few)

Note: Congress did not
hesitate to head home
when it was a holiday,
when the nation needed
a real fix to the
economic problems.
Also, we had 3 senators
that were not doing their
jobs for the 18+
months (on
the campaign trail) and
still they all
have accepted full pay.
These facts alone
support a reduction
in senators & congress.

Summary of opportunity:

$ 44,108,400 reduction
of congress members.
$282,100, 000 for
elimination of the
reduced house member
staff.
$150,000,000 for
elimination of reduced
senate member staff.
$59,675,000 for 25%
reduction of staff for
remaining house
members.
$37,500,000 for 25%
reduction of staff for
remaining senate
members.
$7,500,000,000 reduction
in pork added to bills by
the reduction of
congress members.
$8,073,383,400 per year
estimated total savings.
(That's 8-BILLION
just to start!)

Big business does
these types of cuts
all the time.

If Congresspersons were
required to serve 20, 25
or 30 years (like
everyone else) in order
to collect retirement
benefits, tax payers
could save a
bundle. Now they get
full retirement after
serving only ONE term.
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