Lots of Our Money, Right Out the Window

Received the following from MoveOn.org today (excerpts):

Congress is now considering President Bush's gigantic, 820 billion dollar spending bill. The bill is full of giveaways to giant corporations, including many that would never pass if they were considered on their own... The House is scheduled to vote on this bill today, Monday December 8th. The Senate may follow suit soon afterward... Here are some examples of the pork in the Omnibus spending bill: $50,000,000 to build an indoor rainforest in Iowa. $2,000,000 for the First Tee Program, to get young people into golf. $405,000 for industrial lubricants research in Iowa. $338,000 for the Alabama Beef Connection. $225,000 for the National Wild Turkey federation, a hunting concern. $4,000,000 for the International Fertilizer Development Center. $595,000,000 for Trilogy, an FBI information technology program. $397,700,000 for prison buildings and facilities. $6,000,000 for a Police Athletic League. $30,000,000 for the Southwest Border Prosecutors Initiative. $7,105,000 for construction of an international narcotics control law enforcement academy in Roswell, NM. Up to $120,000,000 for a classified Defense Department project. $250,000 for the General Patton Museum of Cavalry & Armor, in Kentucky. $225,000 for a shopping center in Adelanto, CA. $500,000 for the "Exercise in Hard Choices" at the U. of Akron, which attempts to replicate House and Senate meetings in which congressional members review a budget, and vote to include or exclude various options.