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• $2 billion earmark to re-start FutureGen, a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
• A $246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.
• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.
• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).
• $448 million for constructing the Department of Homeland Security headquarters.
• $248 million for furniture at the new Homeland Security headquarters.
• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.
• $400 million for the Centers for Disease Control to screen and prevent STD's.
• $1.4 billion for rural waste disposal programs.
$125 million for the Washington sewer system.
• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.
• $1 billion for the 2010 Census, which has a projected cost overrun of $3 billion.
• $75 million for "smoking cessation activities."
• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.
• $75 million for salaries of employees at the FBI.
• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.
• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.
• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.
• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into "green" buildings.
• $500 million for state and local fire stations.
• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.
• $1.2 billion for "youth activities," including youth summer job programs.
• $88 million for renovating the headquarters of the Public Health Service.
• $412 million for CDC buildings and property.
• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.
• $160 million for "paid volunteers" at the Corporation for National and Community Service.
• $5.5 million for "energy efficiency initiatives" at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery
Administration.
• $850 million for Amtrak.
• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.
• $75 million to construct a "security training" facility for State Department Security officers when they can be
trained at existing facilities of other agencies.
• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.
• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.
Yep No Pork here - (and that is not even all) all good stuff. Thanks for the change and thanks for not playing Politics you have all made me proud
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The Community Reinvestment Act (CRA) was applicable only to banks in specific areas. Mortage Brokers and loan companies that did not accept deposits were exempt from the CRA guidelines. Those banks affected by CRA made up only 5% of mortgages. You are a little off the mark when you say that the government forced banks to make loans to people who could not afford them. The real problem was with greedy, unscrupulous lenders who were exempt from the CRA guidelines.
ReplyDeleteThe banks too advantage of the government backed loans and many got greedy and I think that is deplorable too but the government made a foundation and environment for it. and in 2003 when GWB and some republicans said we were headed for disaster Barney Frank, Franklin Rains and others called them fear mongers and racists (which doesnt mean they should have gave up like they did) so sure the Greedy are a part of this but the government never should have even forced the loans in the first place
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