Posted on 03/11/2009 3:34:26 PM PDT by MAKOTHEDOG
BOSTON – More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys. The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute. The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project.
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"The Edward M. Kennedy Addiction, Rehabilitation and Recovery Institute" for the Senate would be a more appropriate name.
Are they going to dredge the canal under the Chappaquidick bridge so that any car careening off the bridge irrevocably sinks into the abyss?
That would mean even more jobs!!
All of this pandering with our money is despicable.
Are they going to put a stop to that windfarm in Nantucket Sound?
Well,
I don’t live in that part of the country thank god but my guess would be that THEY will move it to my backyard. You see, even more jobs!!!
One of the Cape locals told me he’s heard the bridge referred to as the Kennedy carwash.
You forgot the ‘Sir’ (*/sarc).
Why don’t they just throw that lard a$$ into the “big dig.” That’s already cost millions if not billions of tax payer dollars. He deserves NOTHING more. He’s a waste of human flesh, IMO! Can you tell that I don’t like him? LOL!
15 billion and it’s now going through renovations
It wouldn't be the same with Oldsmobiles.
Think they should pay for their “memorials’ themselves.
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