?$100,000 for socially conscious puppet shows in Minnesota
?$2 million to build a replica railroad tourist attraction in Carson City, Nevada
?$462,000 to purchase 22 concrete toilets for use in the Mark Twain National Forest in Missouri
?$3.1 million to transform a canal barge into a floating museum that will travel the Erie Canal in New York
?$1.5 billion for a Carbon Capturing Contest
?$3.4 million to create an underground turtle tunnel, or eco-passage, in Lake Jackson, Florida.
?$1 million to study the health effects of environmentally friendly public housing on 300 people in Chicago.
?$983,952 for street beautification in Ann Arbor, Mich., including decorative lighting, trees, benches and bike paths
?$1 million for Portland, Ore., to replace 100 aging bike lockers and build a garage that would house 250 bicycles.
?$700,000 to Oregon crab fishermen to help recover lost crab post. You would think for that much money they could just go buy new ones.
?$300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state.
?$5 million to create a geothermal energy system for the Oak Ridge City Center shopping mall in Oak Ridge, Tenn. From TheHill.com, The main problem, is the fact the mall has been losing tenants for years and is mostly empty.”
?$9.38 million to renovate a century-old train depot in Lancaster County, Pa., that has not been used for three decades.?In rural Wisconsin, 37 little-used bridges are receiving $15.8 million in stimulus funds. According to the Milwaukee Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, “The 37 bridges average 568 vehicles a day.” Some of these bridges see less than ten cars a day.
?Montana received $2.2 million to install skylights in their state-run liquor warehouse.
?The $800,000 given to John Murtha Airport to repave a back runway. This airport services a whopping 20 passengers a day and has, over the past decade, already received millions in federal funds. Representative John Murtha treats this as his private airport and has spared no expense.
?$1 million was given to a Chicago dinner cruise company to “combat terrorism”
?The Coast Guard gets $572 million to create 1,235 new jobs. This comes to $460,000 per job.
?$30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies and $11 million for Microsoft to build a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway. Instead of taking our money, why isn’t Bill Gates helping with a solution?
?$1.15 million to install a guardrail for a persistently dry lake bed in Guymon, Okla.
?$2.5 million in stimulus checks sent to the deceased
?$6 million for a snow-making facility in Duluth, Minn.
?Every project gets its own $300 road sign claiming: “This project was paid for by stimulus money.”Should there be a punishment for an unbalanced budget?
we've had a national debt since 1820's. the only time we had a balanced budget, that i remember, is under clinton late in his presidency.
furthermore, of all those states you mentioned - break it down to red/blue, or punish those who took money for pet projects.
We have only had BUDGETS since Wilson in the 1910's. The ONLY time that the US has been completely free of debt was under Andrew Jackson. We had a minimal military, no services, just the post office, courts, land offices, customs and federal buildings.
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Should there be a punishment for an unbalanced budget?The only taxes we had were excise taxes and import taxes. We have had MANY years when we reduced the national debt because of surplus revenues and reduced spending. Truman, Eisenhower, Kennedy, Johnson, Nixon, Carter, and Clinton along with their Congresses lowered the national debt.
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That's silly- inflation will reduce all public debt to nothing in the end.Should there be a punishment for an unbalanced budget?
As long as Republicans get people whipped up about small spending, the people who waste billions and trillions of dollars will not get punished at the poles.
They use fun sayings like "every little bit counts", when really Medicare, Medicaid, and defense spending alone would put is into the red, and so people get worked up about the small things while politicians get away with big things, like invading a country based on a complete lie.
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