The amount of wasteful spending in this country, to say the least, is completely outrageous. The money being allotted for frivolous spending throughout the government of the United States of America is completely out of control. All the bills that are sighted in this report are from the fiscal year of 2009.
$14.6 million for brown snake tree control. Over the last ten years, Representatives Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Representative Madeline Bordallo (D-Guam) have brought home $14.6 mllion in earmarks for brown snake tree control. In Fiscal Year 2009, they received $1.2 million alone. Are brown snakes such a problem that they are worth $14.6 million? $1.2 million is a great example of wasteful government spending, let alone $14.6 over ten years!
$50k to replace trees. In fiscal year 2009, Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich) asked for $50k to replace trees. No, these trees were not in a federal park or even disaster area. These trees were in River Rouge, Michigan. United States Census shows that River Rouge, Michigan is a town of less than 10,000 people. With all federal government expenditures, the question is "Why should a taxpayer in California pay to replace trees in Michigan?" How would Representative Kilpatrick answer this question?
Military spending has been a source of contention. News media outlets regularly run stories about war spending. What they do not tell us is other places the government spends money on the military. After all, non-war spending does not meet their agenda. Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), and Representative Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) requested $30,000,000 for Phase Five of an access road. The access road is being built at Pohakuloa Training Area. Keep in mind, this is Phase Five of an access road. The other four phases already cost $74.4 million.
Veterans benefits and military spending have received a large amount of attention. Our military veterans deserve the best benefits money can buy. This spending story has nothing to do with veterans benefits. It is about a request for money to build a dining hall. Representative Louise Slaughter joined then Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in requesting $9 million to build a dining hall at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
Swine farms give off voluminous amounts of odor. There is no disputing that. However, is this really a problem for the federal government. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) believes so. In fiscal year 2009, Senator Harkin requested $1,791,000 for swine odor research. The research will be into swine odor and ways to manage it and will be conducted in Ames, Iowa. Would you call this necessary or wasteful government spending?
Now I can call Bull when I see it. We seriously have to spend 1.8 million to find out why swine manure stinks? Thats ridiculous. Has anyone took the initiative to study the human feces to see if we excrete nutrients. If the time was taken to study this then they would more then likely determine that humans excrete nutrients in their feces as well. Also, as for odor control, we as humans, have invented the toilet. Why not spend this money on creating a sanitary way to not only dispose of the swine manure, but it would also act to control the odor. There is no reason to do a study on why manure has an odor. It always has and always will. Thats part of anatomy. Lets spend this money on something more important, like finding homes for all the children who are abandoned at birth and given up for adoption of just left out on the Hospitals doorstep.
As a final thought I would like to leave you with a segment from the 2009 Pig Book. It is under the Department of Defense. And I find this spending to be outlandishly ridiculous. $465,000,000 for the continued development of the F-136 engine as an alternative engine in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program. The JSF is 55 billion dollars over its budgeted cost according to the Government Accountability Office. Congress has added funding for an additional engine in order to supposedly increase competition and flexibility for pilots, despite the fact that the winning engine had prevailed in a half dozen public and private competitions, and despite the fact that no other part of the plane would be competed once production commenced. CBS News reported on July 30,2007, that the Air Force and two independent panels concluded that the second engine is not necessary and not affordable, and that the professed savings from competition will never be achieved.
A total of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives have refused to be associated with this bill by remaining anonymous. Hint, hint, anyone? If the officials we have elected are hiding their voices and not wanting to be tagged with this, then why has the millions of dollars even been allotted for these mind blowing bills? $465 million for competition level engines? I urge you to pick up the phone, call your local Representative, and let them know how utterly disgusted you are with the way taxpayer's dollars are being spent.
$14.6 million for brown snake tree control. Over the last ten years, Representatives Mazie Hirono (D-Hawaii) and Representative Madeline Bordallo (D-Guam) have brought home $14.6 mllion in earmarks for brown snake tree control. In Fiscal Year 2009, they received $1.2 million alone. Are brown snakes such a problem that they are worth $14.6 million? $1.2 million is a great example of wasteful government spending, let alone $14.6 over ten years!
$50k to replace trees. In fiscal year 2009, Carolyn Kilpatrick (D-Mich) asked for $50k to replace trees. No, these trees were not in a federal park or even disaster area. These trees were in River Rouge, Michigan. United States Census shows that River Rouge, Michigan is a town of less than 10,000 people. With all federal government expenditures, the question is "Why should a taxpayer in California pay to replace trees in Michigan?" How would Representative Kilpatrick answer this question?
Military spending has been a source of contention. News media outlets regularly run stories about war spending. What they do not tell us is other places the government spends money on the military. After all, non-war spending does not meet their agenda. Senators Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii), Daniel Akaka (D-Hawaii), and Representative Neil Abercrombie (D-Hawaii) requested $30,000,000 for Phase Five of an access road. The access road is being built at Pohakuloa Training Area. Keep in mind, this is Phase Five of an access road. The other four phases already cost $74.4 million.
Veterans benefits and military spending have received a large amount of attention. Our military veterans deserve the best benefits money can buy. This spending story has nothing to do with veterans benefits. It is about a request for money to build a dining hall. Representative Louise Slaughter joined then Senator Hillary Clinton (D-N.Y.) and Charles Schumer (D-N.Y.) in requesting $9 million to build a dining hall at Niagara Falls Air Reserve Station.
Swine farms give off voluminous amounts of odor. There is no disputing that. However, is this really a problem for the federal government. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) believes so. In fiscal year 2009, Senator Harkin requested $1,791,000 for swine odor research. The research will be into swine odor and ways to manage it and will be conducted in Ames, Iowa. Would you call this necessary or wasteful government spending?
Now I can call Bull when I see it. We seriously have to spend 1.8 million to find out why swine manure stinks? Thats ridiculous. Has anyone took the initiative to study the human feces to see if we excrete nutrients. If the time was taken to study this then they would more then likely determine that humans excrete nutrients in their feces as well. Also, as for odor control, we as humans, have invented the toilet. Why not spend this money on creating a sanitary way to not only dispose of the swine manure, but it would also act to control the odor. There is no reason to do a study on why manure has an odor. It always has and always will. Thats part of anatomy. Lets spend this money on something more important, like finding homes for all the children who are abandoned at birth and given up for adoption of just left out on the Hospitals doorstep.
As a final thought I would like to leave you with a segment from the 2009 Pig Book. It is under the Department of Defense. And I find this spending to be outlandishly ridiculous. $465,000,000 for the continued development of the F-136 engine as an alternative engine in the Joint Strike Fighter (JSF) Program. The JSF is 55 billion dollars over its budgeted cost according to the Government Accountability Office. Congress has added funding for an additional engine in order to supposedly increase competition and flexibility for pilots, despite the fact that the winning engine had prevailed in a half dozen public and private competitions, and despite the fact that no other part of the plane would be competed once production commenced. CBS News reported on July 30,2007, that the Air Force and two independent panels concluded that the second engine is not necessary and not affordable, and that the professed savings from competition will never be achieved.
A total of 100 Senators and 435 Representatives have refused to be associated with this bill by remaining anonymous. Hint, hint, anyone? If the officials we have elected are hiding their voices and not wanting to be tagged with this, then why has the millions of dollars even been allotted for these mind blowing bills? $465 million for competition level engines? I urge you to pick up the phone, call your local Representative, and let them know how utterly disgusted you are with the way taxpayer's dollars are being spent.
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