Early results on successful earmarks

The recently passed stimulus bill is massive. Only slightly more massive than the one passed late last year.

As I discussed regarding last years bailout, Taxpayers for Common Sense is again taking a close look at the bill to see what kind of earmarks our beloved congress has added to an emergency bill sure to pass. The bill was only recently released, but they are hard at work. Here's a few of my favorite pet projects we will be paying for to 'stimulate' the economy. (By 'stimulate' the economy, I mean stimulating the voters in a particular district to vote for the same guy again next time)

• $713,625 Woody Biomass at SUNY-ESF. Walsh and Schumer sponsors
• $951,500 Sustainable Las Vegas. Berkeley and Reid sponsors.
• $24,000 A+ for Abstinence. Specter is sponsor.
• $300,000 Montana World Trade Center. Rehberg sponsor.
• $950,000 Myrtle Beach International Trade and Convention Center. Graham sponsor.
• $200,000 Oil Region Alliance. Peterson sponsor.
• $190,000 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY for digitizing and editing the Cody collection. Barbara Cubin is the sponsor
• $143,000 Las Vegas Natural History Museum, Las Vegas, NV, to expand natural history education programs. Sponsored by Harry Reid
• $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society, Honolulu, HI, for educational programs. Sen. Daniel Inouye is the sponsor.
• $381,000 for Jazz at Lincoln Center, New York, NY for music education programs. Jerrold Nadler is the sponsor.

Notes:
That is over $1 MILLION spent in Vegas, complements of Reid. However, most economies find a nice Natural History Museum quite stimulating indeed.

A+ for abstinence gets $24 grand. Sentator Specter added this one for us. A+ for abstinence is ran by Pregnancy Ministries, Inc. Again, as we all know, kids not telling their parents about their sex lives is GREAT for the economy. Lets not mention this little thing called the SEPARATION OF CHURCH AND... never mind...

The Montana World Trade Center?

Myrtle Beach needs us to buy them a convention center?

A couple hundred grand for scanning in every document available that has anything to do with Buffalo Bill?

Hey. At least they put the economy first!

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