Earmarks aplenty in 2009 omnibus
Quite frankly I didn’t know what an omnibus was until I looked it up in wikipedia.
Taxpayer.net, run by Taxpayers for Common Sense, reports that the Fiscal Year 2009 Omnibus has 8,570 earmarks worth $7.7 billion dollars. That’s a lot of loot. They offer an Excel spreadsheet of the earmarks. I am interested to see how many of the earmarks benefit Asian Conservative constituents, if any. Updates to this post will follow.
Update 1:
($142,500) Japanese Community Youth Council, San Francisco, CA for renovation of a youth development facility
($237,500) Japanese American Museum of San Jose in San Jose, CA for construction of a new museum
($476,000) Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment
($196,500) Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment, San Gabriel Valley Business Development and Revolving Micro Loan Fund for counseling and advising services
($245,643) Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program
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These items benefit the Asian American communities in California. I doubt it’ll contain anything to benefit the conservative cause?
Given the large Asian populations in Washington, Texas, and the East coast I would have expected at least a few earmarks in those areas. It is nice to know that Asians are being recognized by their representatives.
Being somewhat familiar with the San Gabriel Valley area, I’ll hazard a guess that the earmark for the Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment was spearheaded by an Asian Conservative. If anyone has any info regarding my assertion I’d like to know more.
While this does support the Asian Community, it’s wasteful spending like this that every day tax papers have to burden in the name of special interest!! Will helping a Japanese American Museum help this economy any? I think not…
@Tim
I am an Asian Liberal and earmarks for programs like:
($142,500) Japanese Community Youth Council, San Francisco, CA for renovation of a youth development facility
($237,500) Japanese American Museum of San Jose in San Jose, CA for construction of a new museum
($476,000) Chinese Hospital, San Francisco, CA for facilities and equipment
($196,500) Pacific Asian Consortium in Employment, San Gabriel Valley Business Development and Revolving Micro Loan Fund for counseling and advising services
($245,643) Asian Pacific Islander Small Business Program
Would help NOT only the Asian American communities, but the surrounding communites too. You talk about wasteful spending, but lets look at what the Bush Crime Family wasted taxpayer money on:
01) Military spending: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2007/02/05/AR2007020501552.html. Think about where the money went. Did it go to the troops? Not really. Ask Donald Rumsfeld: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3jPgljRvzQw&fmt=18 So where did the wasteful spending go? Even conservative Dwight D. Eisenhower was against military waste: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_rRqeJcuK-A&feature=related&fmt=18 and here is his quote: http://www.h-net.org/~hst306/documents/indust.html. And what did Bush use our tax money for? http://www.commondreams.org/views02/0206-02.htm. So if you talking about wasteful spending, at least the community centers will generate funding that will stay in San Fran and not in Dubai where Halliburton is or: http://www.sourcewatch.org/index.php?title=Military-industrial_complex.
When Roosevelt created the NEw Deal which included:
* AAA - Agricultural Adjustment Act, 1933
* CAA - Civil Aeronautics Authority (now Federal Aviation Administration), 1933
* CCC - Civilian Conservation Corps, 1933
* CCC - Commodity Credit Corporation, 1933
* CWA - Civil Works Administration, 1933
* EBA - Emergency Banking Act, 1933
* FAP - Federal Art Project, part of WPA, 1935
* FCA - Farm Credit Administration, 1933
* FCC - Federal Communications Commission, 1934
* FDIC - Federal Deposit Insurance Corporation, 1933
* FERA - Federal Emergency Relief Administration, 1933
* FHA - Federal Housing Administration, 1934
* FLA - Federal Loan Agency, 1939
* FMP - Federal Music Project, part of WPA 1935
* FSA - Farm Security Administration, 1935
* FTP - Federal Theatre Project, part of WPA 1935
* FWA - Federal Works Agency, 1939
* FWP - Federal Writers’ Project, part of WPA 1935
* HOLC - Home Owners Loan Corporation, 1933
* NIRA - National Industrial Recovery Act, 1933
* NLRB - National Labor Relations Board, 1934
* NRA - National Recovery Administration, 1933
* NYA - National Youth Administration, part of WPA 1935
* OC - Office of Censorship, 1941
* OWI - Office of War Information, 1942
* PRRA - Puerto Rico Reconstruction Administration, 1933
* PWA - Public Works Administration, 1933
* RA - Resettlement Administration, 1935
* REA - Rural Electrification Administration (now Rural Utilities Service), 1935
* RFC - Reconstruction Finance Corporation (originally a Hoover agency), 1932
* SEC - Securities and Exchange Commission, 1934
* SSB - Social Security Board (now Social Security Administration), 1935
* TVA - Tennessee Valley Authority, 1933
* USHA - United States Housing Authority, 1937
* USMC - United States Maritime Commission, 1936
* WPA - Works Progress Administration, 1935
The money stayed in the U.S. When Reagan cut taxes (which Eisenhower, Nixon and Ford left alone), our industry went to China, Mexico, Korea, Japan, India and so forth, while we became a consumer nation. Now with NAFTA and CAFTA, it’s worse! At least Obama (a corporatist aand member of: Council on Foreign Relations, Bilderberg and Trilateral Commission) decreased taxes on 95% of Americans and increased it on 5%. He also broke GATT and WTO rules by increasing tariff’s on China. Reagan decreased tariffs and and increased taxes on the working class: http://www.washingtonmonthly.com/features/2001/0301.green.html. So money spent to rebuild our commonwealth is a lot better spent than say India. You agree? And are you a patriotic American? Then vote for taxing the Rockefeller et al.