The huge 2009 stimulus bill before Congress is packed with wasteful items that appear to have no stimulus properties at all, except to help politicians get re-elected. It really doesn't matter how the federal government manages to spend our money, for each and every dollar Congress gives to one group they must take it from another. Remember it's not the federal governments money Congress is spending, its yours and mine. In the end we all lose.
Here are just a few of the many pork-barrel "Earmarked" projects in the bill that unfortunatly just passed the House of Representatives:
-- $44 million for construction, repair and improvements at U.S. Department of Agriculture facilities;
-- $209 million for work on deferred maintenance at Agricultural Research Service facilities;
-- $26 million for the re sodding of grass on the National Mall;
-- $245 million for maintaining and modernizing the IT system of the Farm Service Agency;
-- $222 million for research on global warming;
-- $50 million for "watershed rehabilitation";
-- $2.7 billion for rural-water and waste-disposal direct loans;
-- $1 billion for "periodic censuses and programs";
-- $650 million for digital-to-analog converter box program;
-- $125 million for the funding of voter education and recruiting;
-- $624 million for Navy operation and maintenance; and
-- $79 billion in education funds for states.
I could have made three to four pages of items similar to these. I am personally against the bill because I don't believe at all in large government. But how can anyone see this as a stimulus? It is a waste of our money -- borrowed money.
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