9,000 PIGS ARRIVED
Obama approved another spending bill named Omnibus Appropriations Act full of pork…9,000 of them.
FactReal provides a list of some of the controversial earmarks/pork/bribery:
BRIBERY
While Americans’ retirement savings and house values vanish, Obama signed another BRIBERY BILL (AKA Omnibus Appropriations Act, 2009). He will take money from your pocket to finance these politicians’ interest projects. How many jobs will be created or how will these help to stop the recession:
| $6.6 MILLION | for TERMITE RESEARCH |
| $5.8 MILLION | for TED KENNEDY INSTITUTE FOR THE SENATE |
| $5.0 MILLION | for SUGARBEET/AVIAN DISEASE |
| $3.8 MILLION | for TIGER STADIUM |
| $2.7 MILLION | for WOOD EDUCATION (??) |
| $2.2 MILLION | for GRAPE GENETICS |
| $2.0 MILLION | for ASTRONOMY PROMOTION |
| $1.8 MILLION | for PIG & MANURE ODOR |
| $1.7 MILLION | for HONEY BEE |
| $1.2 MILLION | for CITRUS CANKER (which doesn’t affect the fruits) |
| $1.0 MILLION | for CRICKETS |
| $819,000 | for CATFISH GENETICS |
| $800,000 | for OYSTER REHABILITATION |
| $473,000 | for LEFTIST NATIONAL COUNTIL OF LA RAZA (THE RACE) |
| $469,000 | for FRUIT FLY |
| $380,600 | for CARBON NEUTRAL GREEN CAMPUS |
| $300,000 | for GO GIRL GO! (???) |
| $250,000 | for LOBSTERS |
| $225,000 | for EVERYBODY WINS! (???) |
| $209,000 | for BLUEBERRY IMPROVEMENTS |
| $200,000 | for TATTOO REMOVAL |
| $100,000 | for READY WILLING & ABLE (??) |
ANOTHER BROKEN PROMISE: EARMARK ORGY
| OBAMA THEN: promised Earmark Reform… he’d go line by line |
OBAMA TODAY: signed today the Omnibus bill with 9,000 Earmarks |
Mr. Obama, what is a ‘worthy’ earmark? Bribing special interest groups with taxpayer money?
Related:
How the economic crisis was created, Business as usual for Obama, Obama signs earmarked bill, Government’s big raise, Obama on pork
