The earmarks in the bill identified by the watchdog group Citizens Against Government Waste include:
-- $400,000 for the restoration and renovation of the Ritz Theatre in Newburgh, N.Y.;
-- $1,000,000 for repairs, restoration, and modernization of a theatre and construction of an additional space at the Portsmouth Music Hall in New Hampshire;
-- $400,000 for construction and renovation for safety improvements at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden;
-- $350,000 for renovation of the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia;
-- $250,000 for construction of the Monroe County Farmer’s Market in Kentucky;
-- $194,000 for completion of the historic restoration project at the Historic Slater Mill in Pawtucket, R.I.; and,
-- $150,000 for Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Inc., for renovation and build out of the Pregones Theatre, in the Bronx.
The House and Senate passed the legislation.
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$12,390 for grow lights and potting soil in the whitehouse grow room.
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ReplyDeleteHmm, I wonder where the $1.1 trillion will come from?
ReplyDeleteA spending bill from the our criminal friends in DC, perhaps a last ditch effort to pay off their cronies before the collapse.
Los Angeles Supervisor Mark Ridley Thomas is getting a brand new ass rape after word got out that he planned to use nearly a millon bucks of taxpayer money to remodel his office.
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"$400,000 for construction and renovation for safety improvements at the Brooklyn Botanic Garden" Well, that seems reasonable!
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These people won't stop until the dollar is toast!
The sheep will continue to be sheared, and loving it.
ReplyDeleteAll this proves is that construction and maintenance is expensive and that government does not know how to balance its goals. We should be preparing ourselves for a changing century and an unraveling economy, but unfortunately the weight of the machine is hard to stop once the momentum is already in place.
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