Pass The Bill To Find Out What’s In It| Pass It Now! II

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Link to 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania –September 28 –

As we detail in this third report in a series, some projects accomplish such questionable goals as putting
in new windows at a vacant government building, replacing a new sidewalk with an even newer one, or
money for a park that is only accessible by boat or plane. Link to 100 stimulus projects that give taxpayers the blues

I have noted the following:

To condone a $308 million; 9. Power Plant Construction Won’t Start for at Least Two Years (Kern County, CA), is irresponsible, especially when taken together with the rest of the wasteful spending. $308 million is not chump change, no matter how devoted and loyal a person is to a group of socialist Democrats. This bill denigrates the professional management skills prominent in a capitalistic society. It shows a blatant lack of discipline in running a country. It makes a mockery of the Chinese and other investors, who hope they have a risk free investment in United States securities.. This is just for starters, before I do some research. I promise to come up with more negative adjectives to describe the defensive behavior, which spins the wasteful spending as just a minor, acceptable, behavior.

None of the participants in the stimulus have been punished, except the socialist Democrats in the House, who were removed in November of 2010. The legislators and President Obama should be punished. Their actions should bring consequences, but it possibly won’t. Another possibility would be to amend the constitution, so that whatever it takes; bad behavior is not rewarded, and is in fact punished. I’ll leave specific amendment ideas to the lawyers.

 

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania –September 27 –

I’m just finding out what was in the almost $1 trillion stimulus bill, which didn’t reduce the nation’s unemployment.

Where some of the money went, and some is still supposed to go:

Introduction ........................................................................................................................................................................... 4

1. Forest Service to Replace Windows in Visitor Center Closed in 2007 (Amboy, WA) -

$554,763 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 5

2. “Dance Draw” - Interactive Dance Software Development (Charlotte, NC) - $762,372 ............ 6

3. North Shore Connector to Professional Sports Stadiums, Casino (Pittsburgh, PA) - $62

million ........................................................................................................................................................................ 7

4. FEMA Stalls Two Texas Fire Stations More Than a Year, Increases Costs (San Antonio, TX)

- $7.3 million ..................................................................................................................................................... 9

5. Abandoned Train Station Converted Into Museum (Glassboro, NJ) - $1.2 million ................... 10

6. Ants Talk. Taxpayers Listen (San Francisco, CA) - $1.9 million ......................................................... 11

7. Stimulus Project Threatens Pastor’s House (Newark, OH) - $1.8 million ...................................... 12

8. Old Abandoned Iron Furnace Gets Facelift after Money Squandered on Same Project Years

Before (Fitchburg, KY) – $357,710 ................................................................................................................. 14

9. Power Plant Construction Won’t Start for at Least Two Years (Kern County, CA) - $308

million ...................................................................................................................................................................... 15

10. Town Replaces New Sidewalks With Newer Sidewalks That Lead to Ditch (Boynton, OK) -

$89,298 ..................................................................................................................................................................... 16

http://coburn.senate.gov/public/index.cfm?a=Files.Serve&File_id=a7e82141-1a9e-4eec-b160-6a8e62427efb

Please open the link and go to “Ants” $1.9 million ; 6.

Random Pictures

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Corn Cobs
I was born and raised on a farm. I’m fond of simple things like corn cobs. I found these corn cobs at a farmer’s market near Pittsburgh. The grain elevator near where I lived, when I was young, was powered by a steam engine. The furnace to make the steam used corn cobs.

Pittsburgh Mills
Pittsburgh Mills is one of the shopping malls in our area. I took a shot one day, when we went to Olive Garden to eat. The camera that I use has a LCD and no view finder, so it is difficult to see outside in bright light. I drape a sweater or something over my head to make the LCD more visible.

Farm Market
This corn field is behind a farm market, which sells primarily meat. The same people, who own the market, own the corn field behind it. There’s a cow pasture adjacent to the corn field, but the cows weren’t out. They have their own animals butchered, and sell the meat themselves.
 
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Extraterrestial|Transparency

It has been my good fortune to connect with Extraterrestial. I suggest that you go to his Newsvine column for more information. Extraterrestial is omnicient and omnipotent. He has difficulty typing because he has eight fingers, all of which are connected by webs. You know, like webs on a ducks foot.

In the normal course of events, Extraterrestial made a comment on one of my articles. I knew in an instant that this was an epiphany!

Extraterrestrial

Hell! that sounds even better!!! "Obama Keeps His Word On Transparency! We See Right Through Him!" (something like that maybe?) :-]

OR....."Get the transparency out of the W.H. and back in the government!"

#20.1 - Sat Sep 10, 2011 9:39 PM EDT

"Obama Keeps His Word On Transparency! We See Right Through Him!"

This is an excellent slogan for the 2012 presidential campaign. Please use it wherever possible, and as often as possible.

Can you see through this: Video

Extraterrestial can!

We are Waiting for Our Son

 

 

Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – September 4 –

Our son is coming to Pittsburgh to visit for the week of the Labor Day holiday.

Myself, my wife, and our son lived in the same house in Scottsdale, Arizona for about 5 years. He still lives there, and plans to stay there indefinitely.

He was scheduled to switch planes in Chicago. It wasn’t a straight through flight. He was supposed to arrive in Pittsburgh about 7 PM Eastern tonight. He called from the Phoenix airport, before he left this morning. We haven’t heard anything from him since. Hopefully, I’ll be able to report that all is well in this article.

I have really missed him. He’s a geek among other things, he’s single, and is about 53 years old. He likes beer, and I think the plans are to attend some sort of beer festival, while he’s here. I’m a tea totaler, and my wife is as well.

We left Scottsdale in March of this year, and we haven’t seen him since then. I told him that I can’t wait to see him again, when we were on the phone the other day.

Our son arrived at my daughter’s house in Pittsburgh about 10 PM Eastern.

 

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At My Daughter’s House

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Rock at my daughter’s house

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Close-up of Wolf at my daughter’s house

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Wolf rock at my former residence in the 70s

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Blue Spruce on a stick, near the bottom, at my former residence, there is also a weeping larch, and a Rheingold in the upper left corner.

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The same Blue Spruce at my daughter’s house

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The same weeping larch at my daughter’s house

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My daughter still has the same Rheingold from our former residence

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The sunlit pine tree, center of picture, at my daughter’s house, is about forty five feet tall. I picked it up in a Styrofoam cup at Ford’s Dearborn, Michigan plant

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The purple colored tree, on the bottom left, is a cotinus velvet cloaked. This picture was taken at our former residence. This same tree is at my daughter’s house now.

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Cotinus Velvet Cloaked Close Up

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – August 12 –

I’m hoping this article will be a memorial to me and my wife after I’m gone. I’m posting it so that my children and grandchildren can look at some of my and my wife’s treasures during our life.

Some of the treasures live on today.

Wolfman Report: Socialism; a loser?

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Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania – June 28 –
I have been writing about Greece’s economic problems. They have a socialist government. Here’s an analysis of some of their problems:
From Wikipedia
The government of Greece agreed to impose a fourth and final round of austerity measures. These include:^[60]

• Public sector limit of €1,000 introduced to bi-annual bonus, abolished entirely for those earning over €3,000 a month.
  
• An 8% cut on public sector allowances and a 3% pay cut for DEKO (public sector utilities) employees.
  
• Limit of €800 per month to 13th and 14th month pension installments; abolished for pensioners receiving over €2,500 a month.
  
• Return of a special tax on high pensions.
  
• Changes were planned to the laws governing lay-offs and overtime pay.
  
• Extraordinary taxes imposed on company profits.
  
• Increases in VAT to 23%, 11% and 5.5%.
  
• 10% rise in luxury taxes and taxes on alcohol, cigarettes, and fuel.
  
• Equalization of men's and women's pension age limits.
  
• General pension age has not changed, but a mechanism has been introduced to scale them to life expectancy changes.
  
• A financial stability fund has been created.
  
• Average retirement age for public sector workers has increased from 61 to 65.^[61]
  
• Public-owned companies to be reduced from 6,000 to 2,000.^[61]

On 5 May 2010, a nationwide general strike was held in Athens to protest to the planned spending cuts and tax increases. Three people were killed, dozens injured, and 107 arrested.^[62]
The vote on more austerity measures is supposed to take place Wednesday and Thursday. Newsvine member usa1 supplied the following links:
Comparable to kids in a candy store
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The situation in Greece could be duplicated in the United States of America.
If it does, austerity will take place.