Official Pork Thread

Some more figures of what is inside the latest Stimulus Package. Now remember two things.

1) The purpose of this bill is to "jumpstart the economy and create jobs.

2) The amount of money these departments/programs are recieving in this package, set's the benchmark for what they will expect to recieve from future budgets.

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$2 billion for FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois from which the DoE pulled funding last year after having determined that the project was inefficient.

$246 million as a tax break to Hollywood for movie producers buying film.
(What....hollywood doesn't have enough money?)

$650 million for the digital TV converter coupon fiasco.
(That many people still rely on rabit ears?)

$448 million to build the headquarters for the Department of Homeland Security.
$248 million for furniture for said DoHS HQ.
(Mahogany baby)

$600 million to buy hybrids for federal employees.

$400 million for CDC screening to prevent STDs.

$1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.

$125 million for the Washington sewer system.
(note to contractors: Make sure the pipes heading to teh capital are really really big)

$150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

$1 billion for the 2010 Census.

$75 million for smoking cessation activities.

$25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse programs.

$500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

$10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

$6 billion to make federal buildings green.

$500 million for state and local fire stations.

$650 million for wildland fire management on forest lands.

$1.2 billion for youth activities including summer job programs.

$88 million to renovate Public Health Services HQ.

$412 million for CDC buildings and property.

$500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Maryland.

$160 million for paid volunteers at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

$5.5 million for energy efficient initiatives at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

$850 million for Amtrak.

$100 million to reduce the hazard of lead-based paint.

$75 million to construct a security training facility for State Department Security officers.

$100 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

$200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military

 installations.

$50 million in funding for the National Endowment for the Arts 

$726 million for the "after school snack program".