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From that article:
Michigan projects
The huge spending bill the U.S. Senate is expected to take up Tuesday allocates more than $154 million for Michigan, including such projects as:
* $25.4 million to construct an Ambassador Bridge border station.
* $250,000 to Detroit Rescue Mission Ministries for a youth corrections program.
* $500,000 to the Mexicantown Community Development Corp. for a Detroit welcome center.
* $300,000 for Focus: HOPE to renovate a Detroit facility.
* $175,000 for design and construction of the Belle Isle Natural Zoo.
* $150,000 to the Jewish Association for Residential Care in Farmington Hills.
* $225,000 to the city of Menominee in the Upper Peninsula to renovate a recreational facility.
* $105,000 for Closing the Gap in Lansing for computer training for low-income students.
* $450,000 for Automation Alley in Troy for facilities construction and improvements to a technology center.
* $225,000 for the City Opera House Heritage Association in Traverse City.
* $1 million for Oakland County Sheriff's Department for hand-held digital fingerprint and photo devices for patrol cars.
* $350,000 to Wayne County's Center for Mental Health Services for anti-addiction project.
Source: Taxpayers for Common Sense, Michigan congressional offices, Detroit News research
That sounds like pork to me.
And reading this morning's WSJ, Bush "cut" many of the most popular pork program among Congress; cut's that are sure not to hold through the process. He excluded about $50B needed for Iraq and Afghanistan, and "anticipating large savings by making the federal government operate more efficiently, a time worn budget pledge that rarely pays off" as wsj says.
So the huge $521B deficit is really smoke and mirrors, in the end it will be much higher.
John |
