Is this what our tax dollars go to?
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Krigloch the Furious
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No, this is where our tax dollars go:
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$1.5 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers for recovery along the coast, including funding for Hawaii for an April 2006 flood;
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$850 million for Department of Homeland Security grants ($625M for rail/transit grants, $190M for port security grants, and $35M for urban area security grants);
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$660 million for the procurement of an explosives detection system for the Transportation Security Administration;
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$640 million for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program;
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$425 million for education grants for rural areas;
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$388.9 million for a backlog of Department of Transportation projects;
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$165.9 million (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region) for fisheries disaster relief;
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$100 million for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions;
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$95 million for dairy producers;
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$75 million for salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
* $48 million in disaster construction money for NASA;
* $25 million for grants through the Safe and Drug Free Schools program;
* $25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant;
* $24 million to sugar beet producers;
* $22.8 million for geothermal research and development;
* $20 million for reimbursements to Nevada for “insect damage;”
* $13 for the Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program;
* $12 million for Forest Service money requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget
* $3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol;
* $3 million for sugar cane; and
* Allows the transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.
Just a small sampling of some of the pork shoved into the president's recently proposed supplemental Iraq War funding bill.
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$1.5 billion to the Army Corps of Engineers for recovery along the coast, including funding for Hawaii for an April 2006 flood;
*
$850 million for Department of Homeland Security grants ($625M for rail/transit grants, $190M for port security grants, and $35M for urban area security grants);
*
$660 million for the procurement of an explosives detection system for the Transportation Security Administration;
*
$640 million for the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program;
*
$425 million for education grants for rural areas;
*
$388.9 million for a backlog of Department of Transportation projects;
*
$165.9 million (including $60.4 million for salmon fisheries in the Klamath Basin region) for fisheries disaster relief;
*
$100 million for the Democratic and Republican National Conventions;
*
$95 million for dairy producers;
*
$75 million for salaries and expenses for the Farm Service Agency;
* $48 million in disaster construction money for NASA;
* $25 million for grants through the Safe and Drug Free Schools program;
* $25 million for asbestos abatement at the Capitol Power Plant;
* $24 million to sugar beet producers;
* $22.8 million for geothermal research and development;
* $20 million for reimbursements to Nevada for “insect damage;”
* $13 for the Ewe Lamb Replacement and Retention Program;
* $12 million for Forest Service money requested by the president in the non-emergency FY2008 budget
* $3.5 million for guided tours of the Capitol;
* $3 million for sugar cane; and
* Allows the transfer of funds from holiday ornament sales in the Senate gift shop.
Just a small sampling of some of the pork shoved into the president's recently proposed supplemental Iraq War funding bill.
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