Porkulus 1.5? $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine lobster, La Raza & more!

Yea, well techically this bill isnt meant to “stimulate” the economy, but its basically as worthless as the one that is supposed to, and nearly half the cost. You want earmarks? There are lots and lots and lots of earmarks in the $410 billion omnibus spending bill coming down the road. Not that any of the people who are going to vote for it will actually read it, of course. If they did, they couldn’t look into the camera and sanctimoniously declare that, uh, you know, “There are no earmarks.”

The Modesto Bee reports:

During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.

“We need earmark reform,” Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. “And when I’m president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely.”

President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that’s riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.

The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks — loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress — were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.

So while Obama and McCain were slamming earmarks on the camp aign trail, House and Senate members — Democrats and Republicans — were slapping them into spending bills.

“It will be a little embarrassing for the president if he signs a bill with that many earmarks on it,” said Stan Collender, a veteran Washington budget analyst.

Hill staffer Tom Jones is going through the omnibus spending bill with a fine-tooth comb, and Twittering his earmark findings, including:

* $200,000 for “Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program,” pg. 283;

*Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;

*$5.8 million earmark for the “Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate…for the planning and design of a building & an endowment,” pg. 232;

*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.

- The City of North Pole, Alaska (motto:  “Where the Spirit of Christmas Lives Year Round”) gets $1 million to improve its wastewater treatment system.  That’s $571.43 dollar per citizen.

- $1.75 million to acquire land for the Cape Cod National Seashore.

- $2.2 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in Geneva, NY

- $2.4 million for the Southeastern Poultry Research Lab in Athens, GA

- $42,000 for “Arbuscular Mycontizal Fungi” in Wyndmoor, PA

- $1 million for Corn and Soybean Research in Wooster, OH

- $1.8 million for the Honey Bee Lab in Weslaco, TX

- $1.8 million for Swine Odor and Manure Management Research in Ames, Iowa

- $443,000 for Beaver Management and Control in Mississippi

- $208,000 for Beaver Management and Control in North Carolina

- Several hundred thousand for “Blackbird Management” programs in KS, LA, ND and SD.

- $657,000 for Brown Tree Snake Management in Guam

- $1,049,000 for “Mormon Crickets” in Utah (I am told they are neither Mormon nor are they crickets)

- $162,000 for Rodent Control in Hawaii

- $209,000 to “Improve Blueberry Production and Efficiency” in Georgia

- $254,00 for the “Montana Sheep Institute”

- $413,000 for Tri-State Joint Peanut Research in Alabama

- $2.9 million for Shrimp Aquaculture in AZ, HI, LA, MA, MS, SC and TX

- $277 million for 2nd Avenue Subway

- $210 million for LIRR terminal in Grand Central


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3 Responses to “Porkulus 1.5? $410 billion omnibus spending bill: Gang tattoo removal, Maine lobster, La Raza & more!”

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  3. ebolks on March 4th, 2009 11:56 pm

    PORK IS WHEN THE GOVERNMENT SPENDS MONEY ON SOMEONE ELSE. STIMULUS IS WHEN THEY SPEND IT ON YOU. DID YOU KNOW B. JINDAL WAS NUMBER 14 IN HIS LAST YEAR IN CONGRESS IN BRINGING HOME THE PORK. HE WAS NO PIGLET. INCIDENTALLY HE IS GOING TO TAKE THE MONEY FROM THE STIMULUS BILL FOR THE RAILROAD BETWEEN BATON ROUGE AND NEW ORLEANS. THAT PORTION OF THE BILL MUST NOT BE PORK. BIGGEST PORKERS IN OMNIBUS ARE REPUBS COCHRAN AND WICKER 860M BETWEEN THEM BUT DON’T FORGET SHELBY, 250M, AND SPECTOR AND VITTER AND ON AND ON. THE REPUBS WON THIS PORK WAR, OF COURSE SOME OF THE REPUBS WHOSE PORK IS STILL FRYING IN THIS BILL AREN’T IN THE SENATE ANYMORE SO I GUESS THEY UNDER PORKED. NOW THAT’S AN EXAMPLE FOR ALL US LIBERALS TO CONSIDER.

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