I've read enough parts of it to know it's the biggest congressional boondoggle they've foisted off on us. I checked out stimuluswatch.org for a list of some of the notorious pork projects and found four prime cuts landing in Nancy Pelosi's backyard. One hundred million here, 200 million there, another 250 million for projects in San Jose, and eight more million for water system improvement. That's what's called "Bringing home the bacon!" Or is it "loading the larder?"
Then of course we have the half million for a dog park in Chula Vista, nearly a million for doorbells in Laurel, MS (Haven't people there learned to knock?), more than $400,000 for a police command vehicle for Pleasanton (this one's in Pelosi's backyard, too)...the list is endless. A state-by-state search of the tenderloins that are being distributed show which members of congress have the most clout with the meat cleaver....or maybe they live higher on the hog?
To add insult to injury, Nancy Pelosi wasn't satisfied with the little jet that flies her back out here to California every weekend....she needed the comfort, speed and security of a 200-seater that costs $60,000 in jet fuel one way. Add it up, and Pelosi's cross-country round-trips every weekend cost us taxpayers $480,000 per month or $5,760,000 annually! Why don't we just recall our Queen of the Spenders and really stimulate our economy?
And this is someone who screamed about corporate executives flying on private planes.
ReplyDeleteSpeaking of planes -- did you see where the president sent a White House plane to bring Sen. Sherrod Brown to D.C. Friday night to vote on the stimulus bill and then had it fly Brown back to Ohio? Brown was in Ohio at his mother's wake and funeral, but the Senate needed his vote to get the boondoggle through. So Obama volunteered one of "his" planes, which is a questionable -- if not illegal -- use of the tax-funded plane. Would the president have been so generous had this been a Republican senator attending a family funeral?