The Stimulus Waste List.
These are government projects. This is the
biggest scam I have ever seen.
$2 billion earmark to re-start Future Gen,
a near-zero emissions coal power plant in Illinois that the Department of
Energy defunded last year because it said the project was inefficient.
$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 icebreaking 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 STDS.
$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 already 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 wild land 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.
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