Roll Out the Barrel….of Pork

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.