House Quietly Passes $633 Billion Spending Bill Loaded With Pork

[OhioChick]

After Spending A Week Excoriating Wall Street For “Spending Like A Drunken Sailor,” House Quietly Passes $633 Billion Spending Bill Loaded With Pork

September 26th, 2008 | by Ken Grandlund |
After spending more than a week deriding the excesses of Wall Street and comparing the nations financial industry players to “drunken sailors on leave,” the U.S. house of Representatives quietly passed a $633 BILLION omnibus spending bill yesterday loaded with pork projects.

Talk about the pot calling the kettle black. In the midst of “the most serious financial crisis” since the Great Depression, lawmakers apparently think the U.S. government is flush enough to keep on doing business as usual AND give up over $1 TRILLION dollars of taxpayer money to the greedy bastards in the financial industry.

WHO THE HELL KEEPS VOTING FOR THESE ASSHATS?!?!?

Examples of the pork projects (and these are put forth EQUALLY by BOTH PARTIES) include:

Rep. Pelosi (D-CA) obtained $1,500,000 for the Presidio Heritage Center.

Sen. Stevens (R-AK) obtained $2 million for Hibernation Genomics, a project at University of Alaska – Fairbanks that is investigating using hibernation as technique to preventing and treating trauma from injury and ischemia for battlefield conditions. WAY TO GO MR. BRIDGE TO NOWHERE. EVEN UNDER INDICTMENT, YOU STILL KNOW HOW TO DELIVER THE PORK!

Rep. John Murtha (D-PA) obtained $24.5 million for the National Drug Intelligence Center which has been criticized as redundant of existing facilities and for mismanagement. In previous year, the Administration has attempted to shut down NDIC and merge it with existing facilities. GREAT! MORE FUNDING FOR PROJECTS THAT DON’T WORK OR ARE (gasp) BADLY MANAGED. KIND OF LIKE WALL STREET, NO?

Sen. Bond (R-MO) obtained $800,000 Pseudofoliculitis Barbae (PFB) Topical Treatment – this goes to ISW Group in St. Louis, MO, a privately held pharmaceutical company. FUNDING FOR SHAVING BUMPS?

Sen. Shelby (R-AL) and Rep. Aderholt obtained $1.6 million for SAIC’s High Fidelity Virtual Simulation and Analysis program which uses simulation software to reduce the amount of time it takes a soldier to receive operational support in the field. CAN WE PAY FOR THIS ONE WITH VIRTUAL MONEY THEN?


Sen. Levin (D-MI) obtained $1.6 million for Low Temperature Vehicle Performance Research at Wayne State University, double what the program received in FY08. RIGHT…BECAUSE WE ALL NEED TO KNOW HOW WELL CARS PERFORM IN -20 DEGREE TEMPERATURES.

And they wonder why the average American isn’t supporting the Wall Street Bailout.

What ever happened to that much touted reform that Democrats promised us? Oh, yeah. They are a bunch of liars too.

More: http://www.teambio.org/2008/09/26/after-spending-a-week-excoriating-wall-street-for-spending-like-a-drunken-sailor-house-quietly-passes-633-billion-spending-bill-loaded-with-pork/

[TahitiNut]

1. As a Wayne State University alumnus, I applaud Senator Levin for bringing home the bacon.

:evilgrin:

[global1]

2. Last Night Someone On This Board Asked What Stories Are We Missing By.....

spending all this attention on the Wall St. Bailout. I guess this is what we were missing. I haven't listened to cable news today at all. Have they commented on this?

[sinkingfeeling]

3. Federal monies have been allocated like this for 50 years or more. Earmarks aren't bad in and of

themselves.... transfering federal monies to state economies.

[Bill McBlueState]

4. Can you say more about the low-temperature vehicle research?

I can imagine a number of circumstances -- say, probes on Mars -- where you might want to have a pretty good handle on how different types of vehicles behave at low temperatures. But I'm not sure exactly what they're working on at Wayne State. Sounds like you might, though?

[soothsayer]

6. Doesn't an ice age come quickly on the heels of global warming?

[anitar1]

5. k@r. everyone should take a look at this one. n/t

[ihavenobias]

7. Thanks for posting, interesting information

K & R

[avaistheone1]

8. Where is our democratic leadership?

:shrug:

[radfringe]

9. use the pork to bail out the fat cats... :) n/t