We want the pork
Towns in America are flooding the Government with requests for projects to be included in the economic stimulus package being assembled by President-Elect Obama and Congress.
USA News reports on how the town of Edwardsville, Alabama has put forward proposals for $375 million of spending. Edwardsville has a population of 194m so that is around $2 million per resident.
Their proposed projects include:
- a renewable energy museum (cost: $32.1 million)
- scenic railroad (cost: $37.0 million)
- vineyards (cost: $9.0 million)
- replace streetlights with solar-powered lights (cost: $3,479,200),
- build solar-powered recharging stations for electric golf carts and vehicles (cost: $620,000)
- installing water pipelines beneath roads to soak up the sun’s rays, transferring heat (cost $50.4 million) that will halve the amont of energy required
So far the towns have a combined wishlist of $96.6 billion!
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Tags: government spending, pork, United States
January 11th, 2009 at 12:54 pm
Thats what happens when you let left wing nutters get voted into local Govt.
The last Auckland City Council was no better than this.
January 11th, 2009 at 12:59 pm
So Palmerston North will be begging for US grant aid soon?
January 11th, 2009 at 1:10 pm
Forget the pork and apple sauce as our CCC Bob each way mayor uses rates to bail out a bent property developer.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Te Papa
TranzRail
Mikhael …
Energy saving lightbulbs
Biofuel quotas
Solar subsidies (for solar manufacturers who immediately doubled the profit margins and flogged franchises)
January 11th, 2009 at 1:41 pm
Te Papa
KiwiRail
Mikhael..
Energy saving lightbulbs
Solar subsidies for resellers
Biofuel quotas
January 11th, 2009 at 1:43 pm
Te Papa
KiwiRail
Mikhael..
Energy saving lightbulbs
Solar subsidies for resellers
Biofuel quotas
January 11th, 2009 at 1:45 pm
Or could it be?
Te Papa
KiwiRail
Kullen..
Energy saving lightbulbs
Solar subsidies for resellers
Biofuel quotas
January 11th, 2009 at 1:50 pm
Yeah the way O’Bama was speechifying the other night makes Edwardsville demand seem quite rational………..Expat don’t forget treaty settlements.
January 11th, 2009 at 1:52 pm
And I think energy saving lightbulbs are great, except when some fucktard greenie knobjockey tells me I HAVE to use them.
January 11th, 2009 at 2:42 pm
That 1-45 list ain’t ‘pork’ tho
January 11th, 2009 at 2:55 pm
My own bailout proposal would be:
* Blue-ray DVDs of all cool TV programmes.
* IMAX Theatre.
* Google-Porn account
* Personal Predator Drone with unlimited Hellfire missile refills.
* Stryker for transport with the understanding that the cannon will only be used against SUVs
* nuclear weapon arsenal (once giving it to me, they’ll have to spend billions in a credible deterent)
And lastly but not the least (but certainly the cheapest)
* Letters of Marque
January 11th, 2009 at 3:15 pm
After the last 8 yrs I find these stupedous claims forgiveable.
I am though concerned at the intelligence of Americans.
They have yet to realise the affluence bubble for the middle class in the US has been busted.
The middle class will struggle to survive from now on. It has been targeted and the coup d’grace administered.
The American dream is dead. Simple as that.
The police have stated they’re ‘targeting’ Motor cyclists here now. They’ve had there way for far too long persecuting drivers in 50 K areas where there are little or no accidents and ignoring the high ways where there are.
Have you noticed the public get no recognition for lower road tolls. Its all the police or Transit. The people are all children who have been taught to listen.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:14 pm
Perhaps someone should tell them that the money is either being printed or borrowed (once again!) and let them reassess their demands.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:20 pm
Can’t they get the money from the UN.
They always seem to have Zillions to play with?
OFFS, forgot. You have to vote in and support murdering zealots in Palestine/Gaza
January 11th, 2009 at 4:34 pm
It’s great that President Bush has left America’s finances in such great shape.
January 11th, 2009 at 4:50 pm
Thats what happens when you let left wing nutters get voted into local Govt.
In Alabama?
January 11th, 2009 at 4:51 pm
rador – much like Helen left our finances , thanks caustic Cullen you ####, didn’t you pick that up on the rador you silly red lemon!
January 11th, 2009 at 5:18 pm
>> Thats what happens when you let left wing nutters get voted into local Govt.
>> In Alabama?
Left wing, anarcho syndicalist, or frickin’ libertarian, you’d be stupid not to ask for free government money for your city, especially when they’ve rather loudly announced they’re going to give a lot away.
January 11th, 2009 at 5:27 pm
radar, none of the Right Wing Cheer Squad here is prepared to acknowledge the success Shrub has had in emulating his father.
Bush snr trashed the US economy, Clinton rebuilt it and Shrub has again destroyed it. US unemployment is now the highest it has been since the seppos kicked out Bush snr.
http://www.nytimes.com/2009/01/10/business/economy/10jobs.html?_r=2&th&emc=th
And Stephen, right on! Who here would reject “free money”?
January 11th, 2009 at 5:55 pm
It’s not all Bush’s fault that the US economy is in the crapper. But it could well all be Obama’s fault that it stays there for the next 4 years. Someone should tell this prick that governments don’t create jobs. Well, not meaningful ones anyway. It’s easy to create the illusion when you have the ability to steal from the taxpayers.
The countries that will come out of this global financial mess the best will be those who’s governments realise they can’t spend their way out of this one.
January 11th, 2009 at 7:35 pm
“It’s easy to create the illusion when you have the ability to steal from the taxpayers”
Yeah….see Kiwibank.
January 11th, 2009 at 10:39 pm
If the US didn’t waste a trillion dollars on their stupid war in Iraq, there woud be plenty of money!
January 12th, 2009 at 6:50 am
>>”If the US didn’t waste a trillion dollars on their stupid war in Iraq, there wou(l)d be”…..a global oil supply crisis, make no mistake.
January 12th, 2009 at 7:38 am
Bork – Bush did what he had to. Fool or not, he acted in the best interests of the godamn U S of A.
Now, why did NZ sign up to Kyoto….?
January 12th, 2009 at 8:05 am
Let’s not forget that Clark’s Labour was hot to trot on tax-and-spend pork barrel projects.
Anyone for a $4,000,000 Chinese Garden in Dunedin?
January 12th, 2009 at 9:06 am
Anyone point me to our economic stimulus plan??
January 12th, 2009 at 9:11 am
anyone point me to NZ’s failing auto industry or dfailing financial services backbone?
You lefties love a bandwagon.
January 12th, 2009 at 9:46 am
I wonder if the same pastors who told their congregation to go to the bank and pay to god they will approve your mortgage will reach in to their silk lined pockets and help them out?
Will we see a drop in falcons and holdens on the road soon with possible closures in Australia? what will bogans drive in 10 years time?
January 12th, 2009 at 9:53 am
the same jap imports most of them drive now I guess.
January 12th, 2009 at 4:08 pm
Danyl: Don’t be silly — it’s obviously totally irrelevant that while Democrats hold solid majorities in both houses of the State Legislature, that the Governor, Secretary of State, Attorney General, State Auditor and State Treasurer are all Republicans. (As well as both US Senators, and four out of seven Congressmen.) While they may be nutters, I don’t think you could fairly characterise any of them as being of the left wing variety.
Oh, and thanks to a quirk of the Alabama consitution governments at the county level have very little autonomy. So I guess it doesn’t matter that Cleburne County (of which Edwardsville is a part) is dominated by registered Republicans as well.