The Examiner newspapers and the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters.org, and Citizens Against Government Waste are laying out the pork in the current appropriations bill for the Departments of Labor and HHS. The pols call them “earmarks” so as not to confuse the taxpayers.
You will be glad to know that New York is only getting $2.32 per capita from all this pork. The District of Columbia, on the other hand, is top dog with $8.83 per capita, almost double number two, Rhode Island. If you’re in America’s colonial empire, Samoa, Guam, the Marianas, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands you are SOL with this bill. Not one red cent “earmarked” for you brown skinned folks.
Here on America’s North Shore, we’re rolling in dough.
Monroe Community College for a special needs preparedness training program $450,000. [In other words, if you aren't educated enough to make it in a community college, we'll try to tutor you.]
Rochester City School District, for its Rochester Children’s Zone student achievement initiative $400,000 [for the 50% of kids that don't drop out?]
Unity Health System for facilities and equipment for the Park Ridge Hospital Emergency Center $400,000 [They did show a profit in 2005. Yet they get this gift from the taxpayers.]
Nazareth College for equipment and technology upgrades for the Math/Science Teacher Enhancement project $250,000 [And this college's endowment is? Lots?]
Monroe Community College for the Advanced Technology Training Systems Program, including purchase of equipment $200,000 [This would be training for people who will then go to work at some of the biggest corporation in the area, like Kodak, Xerox, Baush & Lomb. You know, companies who could pay to train their employees but would rather have the taxpayers do it.]
The really, really dumb ones?
- Jazz at Lincoln Center, for music education programs $500,000
- American Airpower Museum for exhibits and education programs $300,000
- American Ballet Theatre, for music education programs $300,000
- Kips Bay Boys & Girls Club for a nutrition and anti-obesity demonstration program for 6-to-12-year-old children $275,000
- Samuel Field YM&YWHA, for a naturally occurring retirement communities demonstration project $150,000
- Queens Theatre in the Park, for a project to provide youth with career planning and development in the performing arts industry $100,000
The Examiners’ link has the “earmarks” by state. Go and look at yours. Unless, of course, you live in Samoa, Guam, the Marianas, Puerto Rico or the Virgin Islands.
Thanks to Captain’s Quarters and Wizbang
