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The Free Agent
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: near Charlotte NC
Age: 38
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http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/po...-68709732.html
The $787 billion stimulus bill was passed in February and was promised as a job saver and economy booster. Here is where some of the money went: - $300,000 for a GPS-equipped helicopter to hunt for radioactive rabbit droppings at the Hanford nuclear reservation in Washington state. - $30 million for a spring training baseball complex for the Arizona Diamondbacks and Colorado Rockies. - $11 million for Microsoft to built a bridge connecting its two headquarter campuses in Redmond, Wash., which are separated by a highway. - $430,000 to repair a bridge in Iowa County, Wis., that carries 10 or fewer cars per day. - $800,000 for the John Murtha Airport in Johnstown, Pa., serving about 20 passengers per day, to built a backup runway. - $219,000 for Syracuse University to study the sex lives of freshmen women. - $2.3 million for the U.S. Forest Service to rear large numbers of arthropods, including the Asian longhorned beetle, the nun moth and the woolly adelgid. remainder of list at link
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The Camp Fodder
Join Date: Sep 2005
Location: silver spring MD
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The Role Player
Join Date: Apr 2004
Location: Alexandria, VA
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whoever it is, it's not enough stimulus baby, hoo-ahh!! ![]() ![]()
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The Role Player
Join Date: Nov 2006
Location: Ashburn
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This is shocking to me. I was under the impression the govt was much better at spending my money than I. Oddly, the only project I approve of is for rearing a large number of nun moths. I'm so curious to see if they sleep around to reproduce. That wouldn't be very nun like.
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Ring of Fame
Join Date: Aug 2001
Location: Bradenton, FL
Age: 39
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John Murtha might be the most dispacable human being on earth.
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The Dirtbags
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Cadogan, PA
Age: 24
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I cannot believe I live in this man's district. But he was dead-on in '08 when he called the people that constantly vote him into office backward-rednecks.
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The Dirtbags
Join Date: Aug 2009
Location: Cadogan, PA
Age: 24
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There is no reason at all for the federal govenment to be giving money, especially this large amount, to professional sports team.....especially for a complex they'll only use 1-2 months out of the year!
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The Bruiser
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California Bay Area
Age: 26
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I see plenty bad, plenty of WTF and some good.
Many of those you can't judge with just a little quip. The Syracuse Professor for example has caught a ton of flack and I think its unwarranted. He's not a sociologist. There is plenty of merit to his study for the health of young women. |
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The Free Agent
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: near Charlotte NC
Age: 38
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I can judge them all as improper use of taxpayer funds
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The Bruiser
Join Date: Jul 2005
Location: California Bay Area
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The Free Agent
Join Date: Jun 2004
Location: near Charlotte NC
Age: 38
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Yes, that's correct.
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Join Date: Oct 2003
Location: Washington, DC
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The Backup
Join Date: Jul 2007
Location: Section 230, Row 13, via Lake Ridge, Va
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The Special Teams Ace
Join Date: May 2006
Location: Reston
Age: 46
Posts: 372
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Quick ask Ron Paul what he thinks about these Questionable Pork Barrel Projects?
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The Rookie
Join Date: May 2008
Location: The many tubes of the Internets
Age: 23
Posts: 1,447
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Microsoft? Some of my money is being given to ****ing Microsoft? Hell, why not just hand some tax dollars to Scrooge McDuck while you're at it?
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