Dixie - In Memoriam
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Over and over, we hear the lament from the left... If us cruel old republicans get our way, children and the elderly will starve! Suggesting that we live within our means, is turned into a faux panic, that poor people, children, and the elderly, will be left out in the cold to die of hunger in the streets, because there is no one to take care of them anymore.
Now, even I, as a cruel and heartless conservative, don't want the poor, children and elderly to die in the streets, for heaven sakes... How would I get around town, having to step over all the corpses? So, I did a little investigating, and discovered a few things that maybe we can eliminate, before we have to let this happen....
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to
maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal
monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.
I think we can feed and shelter a lot of people for $175 mil. Before we resort to raising someone's taxes, maybe we can consider doing without the Dayton monkey house?
The city of Shreveport, Louisiana misspent $1.5 million in stimulus funds on mold
remediation for a housing complex it was considering for demolition, according to
a federal audit.
Don't know about pinheads, but it seems to me, if we can renovate housing complexes before demolition, just because we have the money to do it... maybe our taxes are high enough? Maybe we could use money like this to help the poor and old people who are dying?
The city of Las Vegas has received a $5.2 million federal grant to build
the Neon Boneyard Park and Museum, including $1.8 million in 2010. Over the
last decade, Museum supporters have gathered and displayed over 150 old Las
Vegas neon signs, such as those from the Golden Nugget and Silver Slipper
casinos.
Now, I don't know about you, but seems to me, if push came to shove, maybe we could divert this funding to the poor and elderly, to prevent their certain starvation and demise... don't know, it seems like it might be a better idea to me... Just sayin'... priorities.
Grateful Dead chose a public institution to archive the band‘s memorabilia
―because the whole idea of it being public and free was important to them,‖ yet
taxpayers are paying $615,000 to make the band‘s archives ―free‖ and ―public.‖
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the University of
California at Santa Cruz the federal funds to digitize Grateful Dead photographs,
tickets, backstage passes, flyers, shirts, and other memorabilia.
Now, I am a Dead Head... love me some Dead! But if it comes down to some poor kid or elderly person being fed or housed, or cared for medically even... I think I could sacrifice my part as a taxpayer, in the Grateful Dead Museum.... but then, I am a cruel heartless conservative who loves me some Dead, so maybe not. //sarcasm
In 2008, Professor Bonnie Nardi of the University of California-Irvine received
$100,007 from the National Science Foundation to ―analyze and understand the
ways in which players of World of Warcraft, a popular multiplayer game, engage
in creative collaboration.
Prof Nardi could have visited my sister and observed my nephew and his friends, and she would have charged much less, and would have provided hot meals! Seems like $100k would feed a lot of hungry old people and children. Maybe we could do without this, before we start talking about raising tax rates?
A federal grant program has directed a million dollars from the
public coffers to infuse zoos around the United States with snippets of poetry.
Fun for me -- Fun for you
When you have nothing better to do
Grab your wallet -- Grab your hat
Grab your kid and come to the zoo!
Where's my $1 million check?
Located less than 25 miles north of the Las Vegas airport, the Clark County Shooting Park is not your normal gun range. The 2,900- acre facility has an archery range, a building with a 30-seat classroom, a rifle and pistol range, and 24 trap and skeet fields. In the future, the range will have another 700 developed acres that will also include an area for horseback-mounted shooting. The gun range was built because of federal legislation that procured the land and allocated more than $64 million in Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funds to plan and build the gun range, including $15.6 million this year alone. The shooting park is being billed as a huge tourist attraction. The park, however, has been losing money. This year, the park had $430,000 in revenues, but cost $1.3 million to operate.
Now, as nice as I'm sure this place is, and as much of a shooting and gun nut as I am, I just think I could find it in my cruel conservative heart, to cut the funding for this money-losing proposition, in order to feed the hungry children and old people.
The Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to
prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Department‘s
Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Lovely... but couldn't we have prevented this, and used this money to feed hungry old people and children? Maybe we should hold someone more accountable for our money and where it's going, before we are asked to fork over even more?
The Monkton, Vermont Conservation Commission received $150,000 in federal
grant money to build a ―critter crossing,‖ to save the lives of thousands of
migrating salamanders and other amphibians that would otherwise be slaughtered
by vehicle traffic on a major roadway.
If it came down to feeding a hungry old person or kid, I think we could maybe live with a few dead salamanders, don't you?
The National Science Foundation directed nearly a quarter million dollars to a
Stanford University professor‘s study of how Americans use the Internet to find
love.
I could have told them for free! WWW.EHARMONY.COM!
The City of Atlanta recently received $47.6 million in stimulus funding to
construct a $72 million, 2.62-mile streetcar project in downtown Atlanta. The
new street car will take passengers from Centennial Olympic Park to the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center. Luckily, if passengers do not want to ride on the
streetcar, they can also take the existing
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority (MARTA), which covers the
same area as the streetcar.
This is one of about two-dozen examples around the country, of how the money from the stimulus was wasted. I think this needs to be brought up when the children and old people are starving, that maybe we should have used our money more wisely?
A ranch house in a closed park that has been unused for a decade has received $440,000 for green energy upgrades. The 345-acre Gibson Ranch Park, where the ranch house is located, was partially closed due to budget and staff cuts in 2009 and is currently closed to the public while county officials develop a long-term plan to keep the park open. The new funds are from a federal Energy Efficiency Block Grant program and will pay for new windows, HVAC system, lighting and roofing.
Before we let old people and children starve, or raise taxes on folks, could we maybe stop wasting money on stuff like this? I mean, I think the whole "Green Energy" thing is great and wonderful, but to have it installed in a closed park building, doesn't make a lot of sense, especially if we have poor old and sick people to tend to.
U.S. taxpayers watched their money vanish quicker at the Super Bowl than those
who bet on Peyton Manning and the Indianpolis Colts to win the game. The U.S.
Census Bureau lost a $2.5 million bet when its ―Snapshot of America‖ ad tanked
when it ran during a commercial break in the third quarter. Media critics agreed
the multi-million dollar advertisement ranked as one of the worst during the Super
Bowl.
Until we see an END to stuff like this, let's not even go there with tax increases, and let's reasonably understand, before the first person dies of starvation in America, things like this can and would be sacrificed.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $442,340 to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting.
Of course, liberals apparently think this is far more important than feeding starving old people and children in America.
When it was built by the Corps of Engineers, Optima Lake was heralded as a
future oasis for residents of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Despite the construction of
a large dam and related facilities, no lake ever formed. That has not stopped the
Army Corps of Engineers, however, from announcing over $172,000 worth of
property improvements for the ―lake.‖
In the 1960s, Optima Lake was built to improve the water supply of the Panhandle
in Oklahoma and to provide flood protection. Despite the effort, it was never filled
with water, making it all but useless to potential visitors and leading the federal
government to abandon the project years ago. It remains today as a remote site
visited by few and strewn with abandoned structures.
In early 2009, the Corps of Engineers set aside over a million dollars from the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to replace an existing
guardrail at Optima Lake, arguing the funds were needed to bring its lightly used
road up to full federal highway standards.139 The Corps of Engineers later halted
the guardrail project140 after taxpayers pointed out that stimulus money could be
better spent somewhere other than at an abandoned, non-existent lake.
This past September, the Corps announced renewed plans for the lake,
designating over $152,000 in stimulus funds to demolish ―148 campsites, 11
restrooms, 2 trailer dump stations, 1 chimney and the Overlook Building‖ at Lake
Optima. 141 The Corps also spent another $19,500 on speed humps, signage, and
locked gates to close the road to the lake.
We can probably stop funding things like this, if we need to feed starving old people or kids... We could probably look at not funding stupidity, before we increase tax rates.
Federal stimulus funds totaling $150,045 were paid to preserve and resurface an
1860 New Hampshire bridge that does not connect to any roads and ends in an
eight-foot drop.
Wow... a bridge to nowhere! But we gotta raise taxes or old people are going to starve! We can't cut spending because children will go hungry! Really Libs?
―It beats being at work!‖ glowed one Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
manager at a taxpayer-funded conference last December.149 The FAA spent $5
million to send 3,600 employees to a ―conference‖
in Atlanta, although ―whistleblowers and critics
say [the conference] was little more than an
excuse to throw a three-week-long Christmas
party.‖150 An undercover investigation by ABC
World News revealed the nightly parties got a bit
on the wild side. ―Anytime you get a bunch of
FAA guys together, it is nothing but a party,‖
bragged one FAA employee.151 According to the
report, ―[a]nother conference attendee asked a
female ABC News undercover reporter if she was
a ‗hooker‘ because ‗I was ready to reach for my
wallet.‘
So... Children and elderly people are sick and starving because mean old republicans want to cut spending and live within our means... they don't want to let the FAA guys have a good time and party hardy, and because of that, people will starve and die!
Unneeded space in federal courthouses costs the taxpayer $51 million annually,
according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).161
GAO examined 33 federal courthouse projects completed since 2000. It found
millions of square feet of unnecessary space – nine courthouses‘ worth – which
Congress never approved.
Maybe we can house the hungry children and elderly there?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) secured a grant for $800,000 in stimulus
funds to study the effects of a genital-washing program in Orange Farm, South
Africa.176 Investigators will attempt to teach ―uncircumcised African men how to
wash their genitals after having sex,‖ and hope doing so will prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
I love this one! Of course, the liberals will allow old people and children in America to starve and die in the streets to avoid cutting funding to the program for teaching African men to wash their peckers.
Congress has spent more than $668 million maintaining a ―wild horse and burro‖
population on federal and private land.
Yes, you're reading that correctly... to maintain a wild horse and burro population. Of course, when liberals speak of budget cuts, they seem to think this funding would certainly remain intact, while hungry old people and children die in the streets.
A $700,000 federal grant paid for researchers to examine ―greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things. $260,000 building a pedestrian bridge across the North Creek, just 20 paces from an existing sidewalk crossing the river. $216,884 in funding to the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University to study ―Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice.
And they want to raise our taxes and not make budget cuts to keep old people and children from dying... remember that.
This year Congress spent $28 million to print the rarely used paper versions of the
Congressional Record, even though access to this information has been available
online for fifteen years.
Perhaps that $28 million could be used to buy a hot meal for a hungry elderly person or poor child? Hmmmmm?
The National Science Foundation awarded a $168,766
federal grant to Columbia University researchers to
study the sexual behavior of wild blue monkeys by
analyzing monkey feces in Africa.
Guys, maybe I am slipping as a heartless cruel conservative, but if we have old people and children starving, seems like we could put off studies on monkey shit for a while?
Howard County, Maryland was recently named by Forbes as the third richest
county in the nation, with a median household income over $101,000.350 Maybe
that is why one local county official sees the $4.7 million price tag for three new
electric buses as a bargain. The money will be used to purchase three ―first of its
kind‖ electric buses that can charge without being plugged in – the primary
destination for the buses will be the local Columbia Mall.351 The Federal Transit
Administration is chipping in $3.7 million toward the total cost through its
Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER)
Program.352 At nearly $1.56 million per bus, County Executive Ken Ulman counted
the purchases as ―another example of our commitment to saving the environment
and saving money.
I don't know... $1.5 mil buses, seems a little extravagant, if we have starving old people and children to care for... but apparently, this is okay with liberals, because it's GREEN!
SOURCE:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public//in...&File_id=774a6cca-18fa-4619-987b-a15eb44e7f18
Now, even I, as a cruel and heartless conservative, don't want the poor, children and elderly to die in the streets, for heaven sakes... How would I get around town, having to step over all the corpses? So, I did a little investigating, and discovered a few things that maybe we can eliminate, before we have to let this happen....
The Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) spends $175 million every year to
maintain hundreds of buildings it does not use, including a pink, octagonal
monkey house in Dayton, Ohio.
I think we can feed and shelter a lot of people for $175 mil. Before we resort to raising someone's taxes, maybe we can consider doing without the Dayton monkey house?
The city of Shreveport, Louisiana misspent $1.5 million in stimulus funds on mold
remediation for a housing complex it was considering for demolition, according to
a federal audit.
Don't know about pinheads, but it seems to me, if we can renovate housing complexes before demolition, just because we have the money to do it... maybe our taxes are high enough? Maybe we could use money like this to help the poor and old people who are dying?
The city of Las Vegas has received a $5.2 million federal grant to build
the Neon Boneyard Park and Museum, including $1.8 million in 2010. Over the
last decade, Museum supporters have gathered and displayed over 150 old Las
Vegas neon signs, such as those from the Golden Nugget and Silver Slipper
casinos.
Now, I don't know about you, but seems to me, if push came to shove, maybe we could divert this funding to the poor and elderly, to prevent their certain starvation and demise... don't know, it seems like it might be a better idea to me... Just sayin'... priorities.
Grateful Dead chose a public institution to archive the band‘s memorabilia
―because the whole idea of it being public and free was important to them,‖ yet
taxpayers are paying $615,000 to make the band‘s archives ―free‖ and ―public.‖
The Institute of Museum and Library Services (IMLS) awarded the University of
California at Santa Cruz the federal funds to digitize Grateful Dead photographs,
tickets, backstage passes, flyers, shirts, and other memorabilia.
Now, I am a Dead Head... love me some Dead! But if it comes down to some poor kid or elderly person being fed or housed, or cared for medically even... I think I could sacrifice my part as a taxpayer, in the Grateful Dead Museum.... but then, I am a cruel heartless conservative who loves me some Dead, so maybe not. //sarcasm
In 2008, Professor Bonnie Nardi of the University of California-Irvine received
$100,007 from the National Science Foundation to ―analyze and understand the
ways in which players of World of Warcraft, a popular multiplayer game, engage
in creative collaboration.
Prof Nardi could have visited my sister and observed my nephew and his friends, and she would have charged much less, and would have provided hot meals! Seems like $100k would feed a lot of hungry old people and children. Maybe we could do without this, before we start talking about raising tax rates?
A federal grant program has directed a million dollars from the
public coffers to infuse zoos around the United States with snippets of poetry.
Fun for me -- Fun for you
When you have nothing better to do
Grab your wallet -- Grab your hat
Grab your kid and come to the zoo!
Where's my $1 million check?
Located less than 25 miles north of the Las Vegas airport, the Clark County Shooting Park is not your normal gun range. The 2,900- acre facility has an archery range, a building with a 30-seat classroom, a rifle and pistol range, and 24 trap and skeet fields. In the future, the range will have another 700 developed acres that will also include an area for horseback-mounted shooting. The gun range was built because of federal legislation that procured the land and allocated more than $64 million in Bureau of Land Management (BLM) funds to plan and build the gun range, including $15.6 million this year alone. The shooting park is being billed as a huge tourist attraction. The park, however, has been losing money. This year, the park had $430,000 in revenues, but cost $1.3 million to operate.
Now, as nice as I'm sure this place is, and as much of a shooting and gun nut as I am, I just think I could find it in my cruel conservative heart, to cut the funding for this money-losing proposition, in order to feed the hungry children and old people.
The Internal Revenue Service paid out $112 million in undeserved tax refunds to
prisoners who filed fraudulent returns, according to the Treasury Department‘s
Inspector General for Tax Administration.
Lovely... but couldn't we have prevented this, and used this money to feed hungry old people and children? Maybe we should hold someone more accountable for our money and where it's going, before we are asked to fork over even more?
The Monkton, Vermont Conservation Commission received $150,000 in federal
grant money to build a ―critter crossing,‖ to save the lives of thousands of
migrating salamanders and other amphibians that would otherwise be slaughtered
by vehicle traffic on a major roadway.
If it came down to feeding a hungry old person or kid, I think we could maybe live with a few dead salamanders, don't you?
The National Science Foundation directed nearly a quarter million dollars to a
Stanford University professor‘s study of how Americans use the Internet to find
love.
I could have told them for free! WWW.EHARMONY.COM!
The City of Atlanta recently received $47.6 million in stimulus funding to
construct a $72 million, 2.62-mile streetcar project in downtown Atlanta. The
new street car will take passengers from Centennial Olympic Park to the Martin
Luther King, Jr. Center. Luckily, if passengers do not want to ride on the
streetcar, they can also take the existing
Metropolitan Atlanta Rapid Transit
Authority (MARTA), which covers the
same area as the streetcar.
This is one of about two-dozen examples around the country, of how the money from the stimulus was wasted. I think this needs to be brought up when the children and old people are starving, that maybe we should have used our money more wisely?
A ranch house in a closed park that has been unused for a decade has received $440,000 for green energy upgrades. The 345-acre Gibson Ranch Park, where the ranch house is located, was partially closed due to budget and staff cuts in 2009 and is currently closed to the public while county officials develop a long-term plan to keep the park open. The new funds are from a federal Energy Efficiency Block Grant program and will pay for new windows, HVAC system, lighting and roofing.
Before we let old people and children starve, or raise taxes on folks, could we maybe stop wasting money on stuff like this? I mean, I think the whole "Green Energy" thing is great and wonderful, but to have it installed in a closed park building, doesn't make a lot of sense, especially if we have poor old and sick people to tend to.
U.S. taxpayers watched their money vanish quicker at the Super Bowl than those
who bet on Peyton Manning and the Indianpolis Colts to win the game. The U.S.
Census Bureau lost a $2.5 million bet when its ―Snapshot of America‖ ad tanked
when it ran during a commercial break in the third quarter. Media critics agreed
the multi-million dollar advertisement ranked as one of the worst during the Super
Bowl.
Until we see an END to stuff like this, let's not even go there with tax increases, and let's reasonably understand, before the first person dies of starvation in America, things like this can and would be sacrificed.
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) spent $442,340 to study the number of male prostitutes in Vietnam and their social setting.
Of course, liberals apparently think this is far more important than feeding starving old people and children in America.
When it was built by the Corps of Engineers, Optima Lake was heralded as a
future oasis for residents of the Oklahoma Panhandle. Despite the construction of
a large dam and related facilities, no lake ever formed. That has not stopped the
Army Corps of Engineers, however, from announcing over $172,000 worth of
property improvements for the ―lake.‖
In the 1960s, Optima Lake was built to improve the water supply of the Panhandle
in Oklahoma and to provide flood protection. Despite the effort, it was never filled
with water, making it all but useless to potential visitors and leading the federal
government to abandon the project years ago. It remains today as a remote site
visited by few and strewn with abandoned structures.
In early 2009, the Corps of Engineers set aside over a million dollars from the
American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) to replace an existing
guardrail at Optima Lake, arguing the funds were needed to bring its lightly used
road up to full federal highway standards.139 The Corps of Engineers later halted
the guardrail project140 after taxpayers pointed out that stimulus money could be
better spent somewhere other than at an abandoned, non-existent lake.
This past September, the Corps announced renewed plans for the lake,
designating over $152,000 in stimulus funds to demolish ―148 campsites, 11
restrooms, 2 trailer dump stations, 1 chimney and the Overlook Building‖ at Lake
Optima. 141 The Corps also spent another $19,500 on speed humps, signage, and
locked gates to close the road to the lake.
We can probably stop funding things like this, if we need to feed starving old people or kids... We could probably look at not funding stupidity, before we increase tax rates.
Federal stimulus funds totaling $150,045 were paid to preserve and resurface an
1860 New Hampshire bridge that does not connect to any roads and ends in an
eight-foot drop.
Wow... a bridge to nowhere! But we gotta raise taxes or old people are going to starve! We can't cut spending because children will go hungry! Really Libs?
―It beats being at work!‖ glowed one Federal Aviation Administration (FAA)
manager at a taxpayer-funded conference last December.149 The FAA spent $5
million to send 3,600 employees to a ―conference‖
in Atlanta, although ―whistleblowers and critics
say [the conference] was little more than an
excuse to throw a three-week-long Christmas
party.‖150 An undercover investigation by ABC
World News revealed the nightly parties got a bit
on the wild side. ―Anytime you get a bunch of
FAA guys together, it is nothing but a party,‖
bragged one FAA employee.151 According to the
report, ―[a]nother conference attendee asked a
female ABC News undercover reporter if she was
a ‗hooker‘ because ‗I was ready to reach for my
wallet.‘
So... Children and elderly people are sick and starving because mean old republicans want to cut spending and live within our means... they don't want to let the FAA guys have a good time and party hardy, and because of that, people will starve and die!
Unneeded space in federal courthouses costs the taxpayer $51 million annually,
according to the Government Accountability Office (GAO).161
GAO examined 33 federal courthouse projects completed since 2000. It found
millions of square feet of unnecessary space – nine courthouses‘ worth – which
Congress never approved.
Maybe we can house the hungry children and elderly there?
The National Institutes of Health (NIH) secured a grant for $800,000 in stimulus
funds to study the effects of a genital-washing program in Orange Farm, South
Africa.176 Investigators will attempt to teach ―uncircumcised African men how to
wash their genitals after having sex,‖ and hope doing so will prevent the spread of
HIV/AIDS.
I love this one! Of course, the liberals will allow old people and children in America to starve and die in the streets to avoid cutting funding to the program for teaching African men to wash their peckers.
Congress has spent more than $668 million maintaining a ―wild horse and burro‖
population on federal and private land.
Yes, you're reading that correctly... to maintain a wild horse and burro population. Of course, when liberals speak of budget cuts, they seem to think this funding would certainly remain intact, while hungry old people and children die in the streets.
A $700,000 federal grant paid for researchers to examine ―greenhouse gas emission from organic dairies, which are cause by cow burps, among other things. $260,000 building a pedestrian bridge across the North Creek, just 20 paces from an existing sidewalk crossing the river. $216,884 in funding to the University of California Berkeley and Stanford University to study ―Candidate Ambiguity and Voter Choice.
And they want to raise our taxes and not make budget cuts to keep old people and children from dying... remember that.
This year Congress spent $28 million to print the rarely used paper versions of the
Congressional Record, even though access to this information has been available
online for fifteen years.
Perhaps that $28 million could be used to buy a hot meal for a hungry elderly person or poor child? Hmmmmm?
The National Science Foundation awarded a $168,766
federal grant to Columbia University researchers to
study the sexual behavior of wild blue monkeys by
analyzing monkey feces in Africa.
Guys, maybe I am slipping as a heartless cruel conservative, but if we have old people and children starving, seems like we could put off studies on monkey shit for a while?
Howard County, Maryland was recently named by Forbes as the third richest
county in the nation, with a median household income over $101,000.350 Maybe
that is why one local county official sees the $4.7 million price tag for three new
electric buses as a bargain. The money will be used to purchase three ―first of its
kind‖ electric buses that can charge without being plugged in – the primary
destination for the buses will be the local Columbia Mall.351 The Federal Transit
Administration is chipping in $3.7 million toward the total cost through its
Transit Investments for Greenhouse Gas and Energy Reduction (TIGGER)
Program.352 At nearly $1.56 million per bus, County Executive Ken Ulman counted
the purchases as ―another example of our commitment to saving the environment
and saving money.
I don't know... $1.5 mil buses, seems a little extravagant, if we have starving old people and children to care for... but apparently, this is okay with liberals, because it's GREEN!
SOURCE:
http://coburn.senate.gov/public//in...&File_id=774a6cca-18fa-4619-987b-a15eb44e7f18
