Posted on 03/11/2009 3:47:49 PM PDT by Responsibility2nd
BOSTON (AP) — 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 $22 million JFK library earmark was sponsored by fellow Massachusetts Democrat Sen. John Kerry, who is also a top sponsor for the money for the Kennedy Senate Institute. Kerry defended the library project, which he said is needed to upgrade the facility.
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The billions in earmarks in the federal spending bill have been a source of contention.
President Barack Obama signed the bill which he described as imperfect. He said it must signal an "end to the old way of doing business."
Critics led by Republican Sen. John McCain have denounced the 8,000 pet project contained in the bill as pork.
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I'm sure thats coming....
Or the Edward M. Kennedy underwater park.
One of the most disgusting things that these little pharaohs in Congress does with our tax dollars is to build monuments to themselves.
Or they can simply change the name of the state to kennedy.
Or the USS Oldsmobile submarine exhibit.
True.
But at least one clown built a momument to himself with his own money.
http://www.politico.com/blogs/thecrypt/1208/Roland_Burriss_Monument_to_Me.html
What about an aquatic park?
Only millions this time? The Big Dig was a $15 billion tribute to the Whale and Rose Fitzgerald Kennedy. It sounds as if we are getting a break this time around.
Nationalized health care will be dubbed Kopechne Care - a helping hand to those who have been left to drown.
Dont forget the Edward M. Kennedy Memorial Bar and Slough.
He can’t occupy it quick enough for me.
Kennedychusetts. Yes, they should have just gone on and done it years ago.
Genesis 11:3-4 The word of God....
Amazing. The USA now has a “royal” family, who’s claim to fame is infidelity and public drunkenness and corruption.
I just can’t wait to see who the next Kennedy scalawag is going to claim the throne.
More statues of Caesar.
You got that right. Until the people in this country grow a spine, it will keep going on.
Sitting around and bitching for Bush, or anyone else enjoying the public trough to get a spine just generates laughter in political circles.
HAH!
When I visited Boston harbor on a cruise ship, I made sure NOT to disembark into the city of these thieves, collaborators, rapists,and murderers, otherwise know as Kennedys.
I refuse to spend one red cent of my money in that city or state.
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