How the Senate Wants to Spend Your Money.

This is beyond ridiculous.

You've heard the horror stories about the wasteful projects in the House version of the Obama-Reid-Pelosi debt bill. You heard about reseeding the mall, and funding 'stimulative' contraception. But did you know that the Senate has a whole raft of new items in their version of the bill?

Here's a taste:

$20 million "for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers." (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: 20,000,000 for the removal of small- to medium-sized fish passage barriers)

Fish passage barriers...Give me a break.

$400 million for STD prevention (Pg. 60 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "CDC estimates that a proximately 19 million new STD infections occur annually in the United States...The Committee has included $400,000,000 for testing and prevention of these conditions.")

$400 million...Give me a break.

$25 million to rehabilitate off-roading (ATV) trails (Pg. 45 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "$25,000,000 is for recreation maintenance, especially for rehabilitation of off-road vehicle routes, and $20,000,000 is for trail maintenance and restoration")

$25 million...Give me a break.

$34 million to remodel the Department of Commerce HQ (Pg. 15 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: $34,000,000 for the Department of Commerce renovation and modernization")

$34 million...Give me a break.

$70 million to Support Supercomputing Activities for climate research (Pgs. 14-15 of Senate Appropriations Committee Report: $70,000,000 is directed to specifically support supercomputing activities, especially as they relate to climate research)

$70 million...Give me a break.

$150 million for honey bee insurance (Pg. 102 of Senate Appropriations Committee report: "The Secretary shall use up to $ 50,000,000 per year, and $150,000,000 in the case of 2009, from the Trust Fund to provide emergency relief to eligible producers of livestock, honey bees, and farm-raised fish to aid in the reduction of losses due to disease, adverse weather, or other conditions, such as blizzards and wildfires, as determined by the Secretary")

$150 million...Give me a break.

-- Brian Faughnan

How many jobs are these projects likely to create? We're in deep deep shit.

If anyone can, please explain this to me...please do.

Here's another one by another Obama idiot.

We are not rich like y'all, that is one thing you will have to understand, that one day this year we will be, because we have Barack Obama.

-- Obama supporter whose car was being repossessed.

We're in BIG trouble..BIG BIG Trouble. If anyone believes Obama can save anything, than you can kiss the north end of a duck flying south.

Damn, I'm pissed!