Stimulus Earmarks – House Republican leaders put out a list of wasteful earmarks attached to the Senate version of the $900 billion stimulus bill proposed by Barack Obama.
The Senate is currently caucusing over changes in the nearly $900 billion economic stimulus bill that has already passed the House and earmarks aren’t dead.
Republican earmarks waste list
- $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 icebreaking 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.
- $125 million for the Washington sewer system.
- $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
- $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which already 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.
And that’s the latest news on the Republican list of stimulus earmarks.
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February 4th, 2009 at 3:13 pm
Tell the crybaby repubs to shut up and get over their loss, and get on with getting our country going, what a bunch of f–kin crybabies…
February 4th, 2009 at 3:31 pm
Where are the benefits for the average American who is jobless and can’t get a loan for dept consolidation?
Where are the increased unemployment benefits that actually cover lost wages?
Where are the benefits for lost insurance coverage?
Where is the educational support for college tuition?
February 9th, 2009 at 6:11 pm
You cannot legislate the poor into freedom by legislating the wealthy out of freedom. What one person receives without working for, another person must work without receiving. The government cannot give anybody anything that the government does not first take from someone else. When half the people get the idea that they do not have to work because the other half is going to take care of them, and when the other half gets the idea that it does no good to work because somebody else is going to get what they work for, that, my dear friend, is about the end of any nation. You cannot multiply wealth by dividing it. Dr. Adrian Roger.
Lift a finger lazy boy (other than whining on a keyboard about someone not taking care of you) and make the world better, don’t wait on others to do it for you.
February 15th, 2009 at 11:50 pm
Little boy John has clearly demonstrated his blind following of the misleading drive by media/Dems/lefties. How else could someone so fool hardily resolve to drink the cool aid and honestly believe that moving ahead with this blatantly misleading and irresponsible earmark stuffed stimulus rip-off will do our nation any good? If we don’t do a little crying now to try and alert the brain dead masses… no amount of crying will help down the road when this great nation tanks as a results of the amateurs attempting to run the show.
February 24th, 2009 at 12:16 pm
According to Wikipedia (the now default knower of all things) – the current list of Socialist Republics lists like this:
1. People’s Republic of China
2. Cuba
3. North Korea
4. Laos
5. Vietnam
I say let old John boy from entry 1 above head on over to any of those 5 countries for a year or two… like ALL of their Citizen’s, he will be rafting his as* accross whatever ocean or desert he can to get back to The Land of the Free and the Home of the Brave. I can’t wait until the end of President Hussein’s four years when we are all sneaking ourselves across the Mexican boarder because Mexico looks a heck of a lot better than North Korea to me. Good luck with your Socialist President there John Boy!
February 25th, 2009 at 10:43 pm
All i can say is……………….. **Sigh……**** and GEEZZZZZZZZ!
February 26th, 2009 at 2:52 pm
There are over eight thousand earmarks.
If this is what the republicans have (I’d love to see the list of which republicans are asking for these) then the democraps still have thousands more.
Leave it to the libs to bitch about a few republicans instead of looking at their own parties lies and waste.
Get the log out of your own eyes before you go bitching about the speck in someone elses!
February 27th, 2009 at 10:50 pm
If you actually read the list, these things aren’t all that bad. Also, all of the repub commenters: you don’t have to use bad language to get your point across. also, you have no idea what you’re talking about. You give no specific details. I think that some of the money is fine to be going to things like RENEWABLE ENERGY. come on republicans, you’re a waste of time. the last eight years led to this. President Obama is our only hope
March 1st, 2009 at 11:26 am
Earmarks reduce the amount of funds available to be distributed in sensible well thought out directions. I believe earmarks along with non-topic legislation (riders) should be eliminated from ALL bills.
There seems to be a consensus that the mortgage failure rate, the investment securities built from these mortgages, and the large scale gambling related to these securities (credit default swaps) is at the source of this financial wreck. Wouldn’t the best move to be to reduce the rate of mortgage failures? Refinancing is a better way to return value back to the securities because it removes the bad “paper” from the system at the source. If foreclosures can be stopped by injecting enough cash to allow some individuals, who would not benefit from refinancing, to sell their homes and satisfy their mortgage, wouldn’t the securities regain much of their original value? Wouldn’t that then make the investors (individuals and businesses) credit worthy again?
I just don’t see how $246 million to help Hollywood movie producers by film will restore some of the investment value lost from the economy, strengthen businesses, and generate available credit. Does anyone? Anyone that is not a Hollywood movie producer, that is.
March 2nd, 2009 at 12:28 pm
Where are the democrats earmarks? And please don’t tell they don’t have any.
March 2nd, 2009 at 3:00 pm
shut up stupid
March 4th, 2009 at 6:55 pm
This is not a dem / repub issue….it is simply an American political disgrace ! The fact is the majority of earmarks will have no positive effect on the economy. The dems and repubs that threw this crap in there should be ran out of town.
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March 11th, 2009 at 3:22 am
Well said, finally a good report on this stuff
March 11th, 2009 at 4:40 pm
I agree that the earmarks should all go. Since the republicans never put in for earmarks, the democrats should not get any either. Did I also hear that a few of these earmarks were sponsored by the GOP guys?
March 11th, 2009 at 4:44 pm
for rich: it’s only fair that the dems should get a turn at blowing up the economy. you guys had your chance. and did a great job!
March 12th, 2009 at 10:18 pm
TO: JOHN BOY. YOUR NAME SAYS IT ALL!!! YOU, ALONG WITH THE REST OF THE DAMN-O-CRATS…. MORONIC AND ILLITERATE WHO DON’T BOTHER TO GET INFORMED, ETC., GET YOUR DAMN HEADS OUT OF THE SAND AND SEE THE LIGHT!!!! UNFORTUNATELY, BY THE TIME YOU DO IT WILL BE AWFULLY LATE. YOU WILL PROBABLY STILL BE WAITING IN LINE FOR SOME “FREEBIE” FROM THE ANOINTED ONE. WELCOME TO YOUR NEW COUNTRY.
March 12th, 2009 at 10:31 pm
OBAMA…..THE ONLY HOPE?????? DAMN, NO WONDER YOU ARE KNOWN AS THE DUMBOCRATS. YOUR ONLY HOPE, HUH? HIS AGENDA IS TO FUNNEL $$$$$, AND LOT’S OF IT, TO HIS FAMILY, FRIENDS (AND THAT INCLUDES THE TERRORISTS IN THE MIDDLE EAST). THE 9-HEADED SNAKE RUNNING THE GOVERNMENT: OBAMA, PELOSI, BIDEN, REID, DODD, BARNEY FRANK, EMMANUEL, GEITHNER AND DASCHEL….. NOTHING BUT A BUNCH OF CROOKS RUNNING THIS NATION. WHAT A DISGRACE. OUR FOREFATHERS MUST BE ROLLING IN THEIR GRAVES. WHEN MORALITY, INTEGRITY, AND HONESTY IS LOST…. SO IS EVERYTHING ELSE.
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September 9th, 2009 at 3:59 pm
marie.. you truely believe Obama is going to fund money to his “friends who are terrorists in the middle east.”
or are you laughing as much as I am while reading it.. enjoy being a wacko.
March 11th, 2010 at 5:02 pm
I don’t see that these are wastefull. Fighting STD’s, buying fuel efficient vehicles, Coast Guard ice breakers, Mississippi River flood reduction, Homeland security HQ, reduce the problems with lead-based paint? This all sounds fine and what I would like my government to be involved in.