Introduced today, Dec. 14, 2010, at 12:15 pm.
The take-it-or-leave-it, no-need-to-debate-it, bend-the-country-over-the-table, Mother-of-all-spending-bills.
Including:
$277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin
$246,000 for bovine tuberculosis in Michigan and Minnesota
$522,000 for cranberry and blueberry disease and breeding in New Jersey
$500,000 for oyster safety in Florida
$349,000 for swine waste management in North Carolina
$413,000 for peanut research in Alabama
$247,000 for virus free wine grapes in Washington
$208,000 beaver management in North Carolina
$94,000 for blackbird management in Louisiana
$165,000 for maple syrup research in Vermont
$235,000 for noxious weed management in Nevada
$100,000 for the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage Visitor’s Center in New York
$300,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii
$400,000 for solar parking canopies and plug-in electric stations in Kansas
And that's just one recital of a few of the items, taken from a cursory glance...
And we wonder why the world is beginning to run the hell away from our Treasury debt?
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