|
|
Post by concerned on Jan 25, 2009 10:45:59 GMT -5
The link below will allow you to track how the tax money for the American Recovery and Re-investment Act for 2009 is actually spend. www.recovery.gov |
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on Jan 25, 2009 13:35:56 GMT -5
This is a little hard to believe, but if true, we're all for it!  |
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Jan 25, 2009 15:24:34 GMT -5
Here's my forecast of a tiny portion of the upcoming so-called "recovery and reinvestment."
$107,000 to study the sex life of the Japanese quail.
$1.2 million to study the breeding habits of the woodchuck.
$150,000 to study the Hatfield-McCoy feud.
$84,000 to find out why people fall in love.
$1 million to study why people don't ride bikes to work.
$19 million to examine gas emissions from cow flatulence.
$144,000 to see if pigeons follow human economic laws.
Funds to study the cause of rudeness on tennis courts and examine smiling patterns in bowling alleys.
$219,000 to teach college students how to watch television.
$2 million to construct an ancient Hawaiian canoe.
$20 million for a demonstration project to build wooden bridges.
$160,000 to study if you can hex an opponent by drawing an X on his chest.
$800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley.
$100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft.
$16,000 to study the operation of the komungo, a Korean stringed instrument.
$1 million to preserve a sewer in Trenton, NJ, as a historic monument.
$6,000 for a document on Worcestershire sauce.
$10,000 to study the effect of naval communications on a bull's potency.
$100,000 to research soybean-based ink.
$1 million for a Seafood Consumer Center.
$57,000 spent by the Executive Branch for gold-embossed playing cards on Air Force Two.
|
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Jan 25, 2009 15:38:12 GMT -5
Okay, that's a lie. Those are actual appropriations from last year, not a forecast. Graphically, it looks more like this:  |
|
|
|
Post by lucy on Jan 25, 2009 15:53:38 GMT -5
oh boy is that pork?
|
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Jan 25, 2009 16:01:14 GMT -5
Pure Grade A
|
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on Jan 25, 2009 16:29:34 GMT -5
$800,000 for a restroom on Mt. McKinley.
Hey, it gets cold up there!
$100,000 to study how to avoid falling spacecraft.
I've been recently worrying about that!
Hahahaha!
|
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Jan 25, 2009 20:20:00 GMT -5
A million dollars here, a million dollars there; pretty soon, you're talking about serious money.
Was that Sen. William Proxmire who said something like that?
|
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on Jan 26, 2009 1:09:58 GMT -5
|
|
|
|
Post by frankcor on Jan 26, 2009 7:09:24 GMT -5
I remember Dirksen. I admired him when I was still in high school. Thanks, Dave!
|
|
|
|
Post by dgriffin on Jan 26, 2009 18:53:58 GMT -5
I remember that craggy old face, shock of white hair and sandpaper voice.  |
|
