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From Reverent & Free:

The Party of No
CNN has a list of stimulus proposals deemed “wasteful” by GOP leadership. Some of my favorites:

-$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

-$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

-$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

-$1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.

-$500 million for state and local fire stations.

At least we know what the priorities of the national GOP don’t involve. Their priorities don’t involve protecting farmlands from pollution or flood prevention. Their priorities don’t include helping out our nation’s young. The GOP apparently considers it wasteful to fund local fire stations.

None of the above programs are going to stimulate the economy or create any worthwhile or long-term employment.

In traditional leftard fashion, Mr. Skinner hand picked a few items from the article, and left out the balance. Here’s the entire 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 icebreaker (arctic 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 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.

Funny, when the GOP acts with intelligence and responsibility and outs the Democrats for being the wasteful spend-free liberals we all remember, the lefties get up in arms.

According to the democrats we need to help the hollywood left buy motion picture film, buy furniture for Homeland Security headquarters, buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees, spend $125 million for the Washington sewer system, (why not give Fort Wayne the money they need??), and among the most stupid, $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service?

Sorry, that’s quite oxymoronic. “Paid volunteers?”

If you want to stimulate the economy, stimulate it by creating wealth and jobs, not social programs and more federal spending on the kingdom.

The more things change, the more they stay the same.

AWB

Tags: Bailout, Barack Hussein Obama, fort wayne sewage, Obamassiah, Radical Left, Stimulus, Wealth redistribution

Mayor King Henry has struck again, this time yanking $250,000 of economic development (CEDIT) funds from city council members so *he* can better decide how to use the funds. Ruling from the top, Deputy Mayor acting Mayor Greg Purcell said “having all the money in one pot would let the city use it more efficiently”.

When the program started in 1990, each council district received $450,000 with an additional $450,000 split among the three at-large members. Henry slashed that amount to $250,000, and now it’s going to ZERO.

From a local news source:

Just because Henry is eliminating the council’s CEDIT funding doesn’t mean he doesn’t want their help, Purcell said.

Last November, the mayor and then-council president Didier sent a letter to neighborhood association presidents asking for suggestions of infrastructure projects.

Hey, how about some sewers for the 3 additions in Aboite that have septic fields that no longer perk? A large portion of the affluent drains into the Hadley ditch, and e-coli levels there are among the state’s highest. All three additions have been part of Fort Wayne since the January 2006 annexation, yet the city hasn’t lifted a finger to resolve the situation. All the while, the city exerts an enormous effort on “green initiatives” and “carbon footprint reduction” yet continues to allow the ongoing pollution of Hadley ditch.

I must note that Councilman Mitch Harper has had conversations with Aqua Indiana, but they won’t even hold conversations with our addition any longer. Talking to Aqua Indiana is like talking to a rock.

The city of Fort Wayne has something called the Green Business Outreach Program, which according to the city’s web site is a pilot program aimed at training citizens on how to reduce the carbon footprint in their home. How about a program designed to keep shit out of the waterways?

They also have the Green Ribbon Commission that according to the city web site is to provide advice and recommendations to the city on goals and strategies to conserve energy and improve air quality, raise awareness of air quality and energy issues within the community and encourage citizens and businesses to engage in energy savings and improved air quality practices. What about the water?

Also from the local news rag:

He [Councilman Smith] said he hopes the administration works with the council on deciding how to spend any federal stimulus money the city might receive as well as the city’s trust fund, when it becomes available next year.

The trust comes from revenues from the city’s light lease with Indiana Michigan Power and could be spent on anything next spring, or not spent at all.

Smith said if the money was to be used, it would be best spent on infrastructure.

Ah, the Light Lease Fund. I wonder how King Henry will take control of that? No, he *will* take control of it. How he spends it will be another issue. I digress.

Taking away the CEDIT funds from city council is in my opinion a bad move. The program has worked well for close to 20 years, and who better to help their constituents than the elected officials that live in the neighborhoods and talk to the citizens every day?

Where I live in the city we still have chip and seal streets, no city water, no street lights, no sewer and no sidewalks. Oh, but we are paying a maintenance fee for sewers and by-golly, they pick the fucking garbage up once a week.

Oh, and we also have Harrison Square. I guess we should all be thankful.

End rant – AWB

Tags: CEDIT, fort wayne sewage, Harrison Square, Tom Henry