Your tax money hard at work

[nietzsche]

The following are just SOME of what your hard earned money goes to. I'm all for helping people in need, but is it necessary the we pay for Brown Tree Snake Management, or a bus that costs $200,000? It's hard not to roll my eyes at both liberals who chastise the President for not spending enough on "education" or "health care" and so-called conservatives who are supposed to be fiscally responsible.


Amount
Recipient

$450,000
Baseball Hall of Fame

$97,000
Franco-American Heritage Center, Lewiston, Maine

$25,000
Develop curriculum to study mariachi music, Clark County School District, Nevada

$350,000
Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio

$150,000
Therapeutic Horseback Riding Program, Lady B Ranch, California

$950,000
Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$250,000
Police Activities League Center, Anaheim California

$2,000,000
Kitchen Relocation, Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough

$250,000
Alaska Statehood Celebration, University of Alaska

$250,000
Country Music Hall of Fame, Nashville, Tennessee

$121,250
Demolition, Broadview Heights, Ohio

$99,000
Train students in the motorsports industry, Patrick Henry Community College

$50,000
Workforce development, Fashion Business, Inc., Los Angeles, California

$100,000
Municipal swimming pool, Ottawa, Kansas

$100,000
Amer-I-Can program for youth, Illinois

$300,000
Relocate the Waynesboro, Mississippi Police Department

$250,000
Camp Police Athletic League of New Jersey

$35,000
Alabama Sports Hall of Fame

$100,000
National Association of Promoting Success

$175,000
Love Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska

$51,000
Robert E. Lee Community Center, Chase City, Virginia

$150,000
Grammy Foundation

$167,000
Horn Fly Research in Alabama

$72,750
Public swimming pool construction, Prescott, Alaska

$300,000
Revitalize downtown Council Bluffs, Iowa

$500,000
Beyond Missing

$75,000
Greater Syracuse Sports Hall of Fame, New York

$100,000
High Falls Film Festival, Rochester, New York

$291,000
International Museum of Women, San Francisco, California

$300,000
Streetlights and salt dome, Markham, Illinois

$1,500,000
Transport naturally chilled water from Lake Ontario to Lake Onondaga

$250,000
City pool renovation and construction, Banning, California

$250,000
Construct the Great Falls Parking Garage, Auburn, Maine

$6,285,000
Wood utilization research across several states

$200,000
Aviation Hall of Fame

$500,000
Equipment purchases, KENW public radio station, Portales, New Mexico

$100,000
?No Workshops, No Jumpshots," Virginia

$200,000
Audie Murphy/American Cotton Museum, Greenville, Texas

$275,000
National History Museum of the Adirondacks, Tupper Alaska

$150,000
Obscenity Crimes Project

$100,000
Breedlove Dehydrated Foods, Lubbock, Texas

$50,000
Feral hog control in Missouri

$250,000
Traffic calming, Windermere, Florida

$500,000
Jazz at Lincoln Center in New York City

$250,000
North Creek Ski Bowl, North Creek, New York

$1,750,000
Parents Anonymous

$1,500,000
Wood products wastewater repairs Canton, North Carolina

$150,000
Fishing Rationalization Research in Alaska

$1,500,000
Anchorage Museum/Transit intermodal depot, Alaska

$500,000
Center for the Living Arts, Alabama

$500,000
B&O Railroad Museum Restoration, Maryland

$250,000
Surplus federal property study, Walla Walla, Washington

$98,000
Alaska Sea Otter Commission

$200,000
Dennison Railroad Depot Museum, Ohio

$2,500,000
Horse Springs Ranch, New Mexico

$150,000
?Parent Intern? program, Our House, Inc., Decatur, Georgia

$3,000,000
Center for Grape Genetics, Geneva, New York

$150,000
Coca-Cola Space Science Center, Columbus, Georgia

$100,000
Punxsutawney (Pennsylvania) Weather Museum

$280,000
Sidewalks, street furniture and fa?ade improvements, Bakersfield, California

$1,000,000
B.B. King Museum Foundation, Indianola, Mississippi

$250,000
A day care center in Sioux Falls, South Dakota

$268,000
Livestock waste research in Iowa

$350,000
Project Peacemaker, Turtle Mountain Community College, North Dakota

$200,000
Wallace State Center for Automotive Manufacturing and Plastics, Hanceville, Alabama

$160,000
Seafood waste in Alaska

$1,108,000
Alternative salmon products in Alaska

$796,000
Ice Age National Scientific Reserve

$42,124
Citrus waste utilization in Florida

$50,000
Wild rice research in Minnesota

$300,000
Wool research

$100,000
Trees Forever Program, Iowa

$1,800,000
Eider and sea otter recovery at Alaska Sea Life Center

$1,000,000
Trailways Station Revitalization and Visitors Center, Georgia

$3,500,000
Bus acquisition in Atlanta

$1,000,000
Clean fuel shuttle buses in Atlanta

$750,000
Broward/Palm Beach County buses, Florida

$2,000,000
Replace buses in Chapel Hill, North Carolina

$200,000
YMCA bus, Alabama

$25,000
Fitness equipment, YMCA of Bradford County, Pennsylvania

$921,000
Hardwood tree improvement and regeneration, Indiana

$350,000
Leafy spurge eradication in North Dakota

$10,000
Slickspot Peppergrass

$500,000
Chugach NF Valdez visitor center, Alaska

$2,300,000
Animal Waste Management Research Laboratory, Bowling Green, Kentucky

$515,000
Brown tree snake management in Guam

$3,000,000
Grape Genomics Research Center, Davis, California

$347,000
Grapefruit juice/drug interaction research, Florida

$63,000
Noxious Weed in the Desert Southwest, Las Cruces, New Mexico

$470,000
Swine and other animal waste management research, North Carolina

$150,000
?Check ?Em Out? program

$750,000
Close Up Foundation

$100,000
Marine turtles program

$430,000
Automotive technology and repair workforce training, Excel Institute, Washington, D.C.

$100,000
Pennsylvania Hunting and Fishing Museum, Warren, Pennsylvania

$1,250,000
Train-to-Mountain, Washington

$150,000
Alaska Botanical Garden

$250,000
Boardwalk in Brookings Harbor, Oregon

$200,000
Brookings Harbor Seafood Processing Plant, Oregon

$800,000
Improve a historic building in Las Vegas, Nevada

$500,000
Kincaid Park Soccer and Nordic Ski Center, Anchorage, Alaska

$100,000
National Railway Museum, Green Bay, Wisconsin

$900,000
Tongass Coast Aquarium, Ketchikan Alaska

[toasty]

Re: Your tax money hard at work

$100,000
National Association of Promoting Success

I love this. I guess the National Commission on Encouraging Failure worked a little too well...

[asdf_admin]

$450,000
Baseball Hall of Fame


now that's a fucking waste of money.

[FM]

$750,000
Close Up Foundation

guess the Far Away Commission folded...

[brakada]

Re: Your tax money hard at work

$2,000,000
Kitchen Relocation, Fairbanks (Alaska) North Star Borough

I'd love to see this 2 million $ kitchen...

$175,000
Love Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska

:?

$6,285,000
Wood utilization research across several states

Gee, I wonder how can we utilize wood?

$100,000
Punxsutawney (Pennsylvania) Weather Museum

What kind of clouds will they keep in this museum?

$347,000
Grapefruit juice/drug interaction research, Florida

wtf?

$300,000
Wool research

Shouldn't the wool industry be investing in such research and not the taxpayers? again...

[nietzsche]

$150,000
Fishing Rationalization Research in Alaska

why do we fish?

[sacredawe78]

nietzsche,


why did you use his name as your pseudonym?

how familiar are you with his work?

just curious because i'm an avid reader of his

[mojorisin007]

Check em out program? what the hell is that?

[brakada]

Re: Your tax money hard at work

And then you wonder about the US budget deficit... :P

[nietzsche]

nietzsche,


why did you use his name as your pseudonym?

how familiar are you with his work?

just curious because i'm an avid reader of his

huge fan. big into some of Heidegger, as well (no, I'm not German)

very.

Walter Kaufman is my hero.

[evangelion]

$450,000
Baseball Hall of Fame


now that's a fucking waste of money.

Couldn't agree more.

[Marimba]

tell them to put some money at The Marimba Hall of Fame!

[fishingnut]

hey, they forgot about my porsche fund?? :P