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Pass the Pork Please

Earmarks and Pork in CJS bill




Here’s the link. Have fun seeing where all the money is going.

This post started out being a comment over at Vilmar’s, but it got so big I realized it was a post in itself. Sorry Vilmar. CJS is not the federal budget. It’s just the Criminal Justice System. But for some odd reason NOAA gets funded through them too. And it’s a whole gigantic poop pile of money, every single year.

Horry Clap, have you looked at some of this merde?

I noticed that almost all the pork money around my area is going to either the NOAA for fish hatcheries and flood control or to various police departments for COPS funding*. A huge part of that is for video surveillance cameras. Everywhere you look, money for video cameras. Britain, here we come.

Billings Montana, population 90,000, gets $269,000 to buy an armored security vehicle. And “tactical blankets”. WTF, are the Cheyenne going on the warpath or something?

Thunder Bay Marine Sanctuary in the Upper Peninsula gets half a million for “telepresence”. Say what?

A mere $100 Grand for the Seals As Sentinels program on the coast of Maine. “Save teh whales!!” “Um, sorry, we’re out of whales.” “Save the dolphins!!!” “Um, sorry, we don’t have any of them either.” “Save the seals!!!!1!!” “Ok, that we can do.”

$800 Grand for the University of Alabama to do weather research ... in the Gulf of Mexico.

A cool million for San Fwanswishco to get a Shot Spotter “gun location technology and policing project”, which actually means hidden microphones placed all over the ghetto. Like the SFPD is actually going to respond to a shooting in Oakland.

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* COPS is an ongoing computerization effort I gather, that has absorbed more than TEN BILLION DOLLARS in the past 14 years; more than < ahref="http://www.cops.usdoj.gov/Default.asp?Item=572">3/4 million dollars per police department. You’d think every badge out there had a box of solid gold donuts by now, but no. They need ever more computers and technology to more effectively fight crime give out speeding tickets and beat up little girls in holding cells.

For 2009 the CJS bill is for 57.9 BILLION
in 2008 the CJS bill was 51.8 BILLION
in 2007 the CJS bill was 54.6 BILLION
in 2006 the CJS bill was 52.3 BILLION
in 2005 the CJS bill was 43.4 BILLION
in 2005 the CJS bill was 41.4 BILLION

Wikipedia says there are 138 million taxpayers. I doubt that. Certainly there are a lot less actual bottom line payers of federal income tax than that. I’d guess half that number, which means the annual bite out of the workingman’s pocket for just CJS alone is around $625. That’s a whole shitload of donuts and fish eggs.

I’m waiting for TQFU** to get out his magic crayon and slash each and every one of these earmarks.

** Obama: The Quicker Fucker-Upper. Love it. Taking it. Using it. Thank you OCM and Vilmar.


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