Roll Out the Barrel….of Pork
Posted by
Jenn on Feb 3rd, 2009 |
1 comment
Here are some highlights of the way Congress wants to spend your tax dollars:
- $600 million for the federal government to buy new cars, on top of $3 billion spent each year
- $7 billion for modernizing federal buildings
- $1.5 million for a water park in Miami
- $50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
- $150 million for the Smithsonian
- $1 billion for Amtrak, which hasn't turned a profit in 40 years
- $2 billion for child-care subsidies
- $50 million the National Endowment for the Arts
- $400 million for global-warming research
- $2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
- $650 million in addition to the billions already spent on digital TV conversion coupons.
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Yay for big government.