Shameful!
South Carolina Ping
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Posted on 08/15/2006 8:34:29 PM PDT by upchuck
Congress is considering a bill — the Labor, Health and Human Services appropriations measure — that presently contains 1,867 earmarks worth more than a half-billion tax dollars and averaging nearly $268,000 each. Many are for things that sound like worthy causes such as "hospital facilities and equipment," yet none of the sponsoring congressmen put their names on their earmarks.
That's why The Examiner newspapers have joined with the Sunlight Foundation, Porkbusters.org, and Citizens Against Government Waste in posting the database of earmarks in the Labor-HHS appropriations and inviting readers to help identify the congressmen behind each earmark. Organizations like The Heritage Foundation, National Taxpayers Union and Club for Growth blog are linking to the database. The database was obtained from a congressional source and has been checked and double-checked. Congress may still modify the bill, approve it as is or reject it.
Check out the earmarks for your state and then call your congressman and ask if he or she sponsored any of your state's earmarks. If the answer is yes, ask why the congressman's name isn't on the earmark. If you recognize the institution designated to receive the earmarked tax dollars, call them and ask them what they intend to do with your money.
Then email us at info@examiner.com with the subject line "Earmarks" and tell us what you found out. The Examiner will be asking more questions about who got the earmarks and why, so your information could be very important. You will be part of an army of citizen journalists determined to shine some much-needed light on spending decisions made behind closed doors by powerful Members of Congress.
Not sure who is your congressman? Go to this web site: http://www.house.gov/writerep/
View the earmarks by state:
Alabama, Alaska, American Samoa, Arizona, Arkansas, California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware, District of Columbia, Florida, Georgia, Guam, Hawaii, Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa, Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Montana, Nebraska, Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New Mexico, New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Puerto Rico, Rhode Island, South Carolina, South Dakota, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, Wyoming.
Shameful!
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If you want masterful corruption, unaccountibility and inefficeincy, the Fed is the way to go.
bttt!!!!!!
Busting open Healthy People 2010!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Woo Hoo
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1563271/posts
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Thanks for the info. This alone makes me want to your screen name.
$300,000 Cincinnati Cincinnati Symphony Orchestra, for the Sound Discoveries Program for K-12 students
THIS sounds very hopeful in exposing Healthy People 2010
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SOB, MF-ing, bitch pols!
Earmarks
BumP
what the heck is that?
Good question. One I'm sure your Congresscritter will be ever so happy to answer :)
This?
http://www.experiencecorps.org/portarthur/
Experience Corps Port Arthur, Texas
>>> Experience Corps volunteers receive extensive training in tutoring and motivational techniques, a small monetary incentive each month to defray any costs associated with volunteer assignments, and the appreciation of their community, schools, and the students they tutor. The greatest benefit of becoming an Experience Corps volunteer is knowing that you are improving the lives of children in the community.<<<<
What is telemedicine and why do we need a demonstrations project?
That would be Verichip:
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/679883/posts
They did this demo at Robert Wood Johnson too. They promote themselves as a global leader in telemedicine.
I'll see if I can pull the Power Point file and post a link.
another 'volunteer' program that wastes taxpayer money with FAKE volunteers
Texas adds up to 26,300,000 all by itself. Sickening.
Here you go. The Power Point is accessable from this thread:
http://freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/1596116/posts
New Medical Trend Has People Getting Checked Out Electronically and Not In Person
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Thanks, I'll read it tomorrow.
You know, we have to find a way to make earmarks illegal. The Congress is out of control with spending and I can see the Republicans aren't terribly concerned that they're ticking off their base with their spending.
Do you think this is a good thing?
Thanks for the ping!!! :)
Yeah!!!THATS what Ken Lay, Skilling and all the other leadership at Enron were doing...EARMARKS now that's the ticket!!!
Sheesh!!!!
Mo just made an excellent point.
Oh absolutely. Look at how many people aren't following the NGO public private partnerships with Healthy People 2010. Whomever doesn't follow that, will certainly follow large amounts of monies for touchy feely programs that the congressman don't even want their names attached to.
BTTT!
Come give this a look over and bump.
These earmarked programs are all little parts of the same big program I was screaming about on the foie gras thread.
Notice the congressman don't even want their names attached.
How about a big blogger ping!
Not sure who the one on the left or right is, but as I live and breath, that feller in the middle is Ted Kennedy..
I hope a photoshop expert surfs along. That really could make a great thread graphic!
Let me guess: because he's briefly pulled his snout out of the trough so he can bloviate!!
Was I right?
Was I right?
I kind of figured he was preening for the camera, but you are correct, I believe that is the look of bloviating.
Wow. Take a look at Pennsylvania's earmarks.
Are any of these Murtha's?
Someone may want to shoot this to Irey.
Good point, Mo. Thanks for the ping, Calpernia.
CA: Congressman Jerry Lewis defends the use of 'earmarks' ("less than 1 percent of the budget")
http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/news/1684756/posts
Thanks for cross posting.
The Federal government has already admitted that they don't know exactly what 2/3's of what they spend is spent on. They can tell us which agency or department it went to, but government doesn't require itself to follow the rules it lays down for public corporations.
My pleasure.
I'm shocked all the local 'Rat reps in the San Jose area could muster was a measly $625K. Slackers! ;-)
Telemedicine is when the have a doctor in another city/state/country look at your medical information, x-rays, etc. to diagnose your illness/injury.
They will need to demonstrate it to prove that the technology is up to snuff. Bandwidth is usually the biggest hurdle with this type of technology.
Big man, pig man.
Ha ha, charade you are.
You well-heeled big wheel.
Ha ha, charade you are.
And when your hand is on your heart.
You're nearly a good laugh.
Almost a joker.
with your head down in the pig bin
Saying "keep on digging"
Pig stain on your fat chin
What do you hope to find
Down in the pig mine
You're nearly a laugh
You're nearly a laugh
But you're really a cry.
I found two programs of interest :
$400,000 Huntington Appalachian Leadership & Education Foundation, for a program to develop character, leadership, and technical skills of secondary school students. In other words, more money to indoctrinate students in government schools into the New World Order mindset...teach them how to be "good little slaves".
$200,000 Wheeling Urologic Research Institute for facilities and equipment. Probably where they'll develop a "piss test" for caffeine (when caffeine is declared "unsafe to the working environment", resulting in employees being fired for consuming caffeinated beverages in the privacy of their own homes) and red meat (when the fascist judges declare that firing somebody for eating red meat, even in the privacy of their own home, is constitutional).
$100,000 Martinsburg James Rumsey Technical Institute for the Automotive Technology Program, including purchase of equipment. Probably to teach the automobile technicians/repairmen how to retrofit older cars with police state technology such as thumbscanners or VeriChip scanners (both of which "could do away with car keys") and surveillance cameras inside your car which could allow Big Brother to punish you criminally if you dare drive drowsy...or if you dare drive after taking even ONE SIP of a beer (the ultimate goal of MADD is neo-prohibition, which will result in the legal definition of DUI being changed into "one sip, and you are legally drunk").
Getting back to using thumbscanners/VeriChips in order to unlock your car or start your car. Last year, I posted a fake VeriChip PSA with Britney Spears harping "how cool it is to unlock my car and start my car with just a swipe of my hand". But over the past year, I began to realize that Spears is just a small fish in the great big pond of Hollywood NWO-ites. I'm sure that the Hollywood "it" girl who will be used as the VeriChip endorser will be one who has connections to the U.S. military. Now just think if Hitlery wins the Presidency in '08 and decides to go forward with the Real ID Act and the North American Union and then decides to suspend posse cometatus and have the military force all U.S. citizens to be chipped. Who will be there to harp about the benefits of the VeriChip? Why the Hollywood "it" girl I mentioned before...the New World Order's China Doll.
Like I said in another thread, the far left and the far right are two sides of the same fascist coin. Both sides have one common goal : tyranny. The ACLU? Gimme a break. They don't stand for civil liberties. They stand for EQUAL TREATMENT, which unfortunately includes EQUAL ENSLAVEMENT FOR ALL.
Yeah that may sound like a tin foil hat conspiracy...but so did National ID Cards (Real ID Act) and the North American Union (Security & Prosperity Partnership of North America). Truth is, the far left and the far right both strive for fascism in the USA, and both sides would use any means necessary towards achieving their goals of tyranny in America.
>>>An image-processing computer system developed by Toyota Motor Corp. and a Toyota affiliate uses a camera near the steering wheel to detect when the driver stops looking straight ahead.<<<
http://abcnews.go.com/Technology/wireStory?id=1100432
The only way the powers that be will be able to get this damn thing in anyone's car is via mandate. I bet this is in the Healthy People bill. I will search it's focus areas tonight.
This project is all about asking our Reps and Senators to show some accountability. They work for us and shouldn't object to publically accepting responsibility for earmarks they design. If they do they have no business holding public office.
Lot of good that will do, how will they handle looking to the left/right when going through an intersection or to turn, let alone looking for an address.
>>>how will they handle looking to the left/right when going through an intersection or to turn, let alone looking for an address.
Logic need not apply.
If bigdcaldavis theory in post 41 is correct, it would enter the vehicles via a forced marketing mandate.
Healthy People 2010 is a very, very large bill that all those earmarks in this thread are affiliated with. It is funded primarily by Gorbechev's Green Cross Foundation and several other Foundations. It is dangerous and will send us into socialism faster than if Gore were President.
We use to have stuff like this in high school. It was called Vo Tech.
http://www.jjc.edu/Dept/Tech/IntegratedSystems.html
Healthy People 2010 is nothing but a guideline for a full-blown police state.
In a society with universal healthcare, government gets to decide how you will live your life. You will be told when to go to bed. You will be told when to get up. You will be told what you can eat and what you cannot eat. You will be told how much exercise you will get every day. You will be told when to go to the bathroom. You will be told how much water you can use in your bath or shower. You will be told what television programs or home videos you can and cannot watch. You will be told what to think (right now as we speak, public schools and communist propaganda such as MTV are conditioning your children into what is appropriate thinking and what is subversive thinking, and they are also teaching your kids that subversive thinking will be punished severely up to the point of expulsion...later the schools will just call the cops on kids who have subversive opinions).
How will Big Brother ensure you will follow his rules? By police state surveillance tools. Cameras in your car. Cameras in every room of your home, including your bathroom.
Healthy People 2010 proves one thing : The terrorists and their enablers have already won.
>>>>Healthy People 2010 proves one thing : The terrorists and their enablers have already won.
Not yet.
Alex Jones may be off the mark on most things, but the one thing he has always been on the mark on is police-state technology. Look at all the surveillance cameras throughout London. Those surveillance cameras WILL come to your city/town/village in the future...then those cameras will come inside your cars and inside your own homes. Soon, every new personal computer will have embedded cameras and thumbscanners. All new Macintosh computers (iMac, MacBook Pro, and MacBook) already have embedded cameras right above the monitor. Best Buy ads harp about laptops with fingerprint scanners for "extra security". That's how they sell police state technology to Joe Average...when they use the word "security", it sells.
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