Thread: PORK FINDER for Your State and/or City

I think you will find this link very interesting and informative... I did!
Click on your state, then city--Pork abounds---our kids (and grandkids) will be paying for this folly! I'm astounded at so many dog parks, golf course upgrades and "wall coverings" for elementary schools! Paint - yes, roofing - sure, bridges - absolutely, but wall coverings? And the lunacy goes on!


IF THE LINKS BELOW DON'T WORK, CLICK HERE:
http://www.stimuluswatch.org/

You can search by keyword, federal program or by state. People are going nuts seeing what their states are asking for! This is urgent? Oh yeah, $17 BILLION for Puerto Rico ????

Find projects by state or territory

Alaska (46 projects)
Alabama (318 projects)
Arkansas (199 projects)
Arizona (743 projects)
California (1971 projects)
Colorado (201 projects)
Connecticut (449 projects)
Washington, D.C. (8 projects)
Delaware (7 projects)
Florida (1752 projects)
Georgia (266 projects)
Hawaii (316 projects)
Iowa (51 projects)
Idaho (348 projects)
Illinois (1031 projects)
Indiana (713 projects)
Kansas (139 projects)
Kentucky (524 projects)
Louisiana (433 projects)
Massachusetts (266 projects)
Maryland (54 projects)
Maine (72 projects)
Michigan (782 projects)
Minnesota (335 projects)
Missouri (403 projects)
Mississippi (552 projects)
Montana (57 projects)
North Carolina (319 projects)
North Dakota (61 projects)
Nebraska (154 projects)
New Jersey (261 projects)
New Mexico (215 projects)
Nevada (163 projects)
New York (289 projects)
Ohio (847 projects)
Oklahoma (223 projects)
Oregon (159 projects)
Pennsylvania (352 projects)
Puerto Rico (340 projects)
Rhode Island (116 projects)
South Carolina (271 projects)
South Dakota (30 projects)
Tennessee (103 projects)
Texas (1240 projects)
Utah (298 projects)
Virginia (400 projects)
Vermont (61 projects)
Washington (368 projects)
Wisconsin (358 projects)
West Virginia (1 projects)
Wyoming (85 projects)

400,000 for median beautification.

Awesome site. Did the O'Reilly factor do this? I see "Streetcar fever" is spreading out from Portland, Ore (requested: $75,000,000) to other places like Miami (requested: $280,000,000) and Cincinatti, OH. Well, this is a lot better than their continuing light rail boondoggle which now is approaching, or passed, the billion dollar mark, per route. Thanks, US taxpayers, for contributing fifteen dollars for every two dollar ride!
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If the resulting economic development returned the funds to US coffers it would be different. I don't know what evidence would indicate that. Many times it ends up diminishing the existing bus service.

This site was built by volunteers and is not affiliated with any group or organization.

The project was started by Jerry Brito after Eileen Norcross pointed out to him the opportunity the mayor's report presented. Jerry herded cats on the project and contributed the graphic design. The development of the site was lead by Peter Snyder, who coded the site in PHP and MySQL and implemented the MediaWiki integration. Peter was assisted by Kevin Dwyer, who helped scrape and format the report data.

Its creators are:

Jerry Brito, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. His research has focused on government transparency and accountability, specifically how the internet can be harnessed to crowdsource the task of keeping officials accountable. You can read his paper on the subject, "Hack, Mash, and Peer: Crowdsourcing Government Transparency," (PDF) pubilshed by the Columbia Science & Technology Law Review. His personal site is jerrybrito.org.

Kevin Dwyer, Senior Computer Scientist at White Oak Technologies, Free Software contributor, and GNU/Linux zealot. Also a Pythonista, Kevin writes about the science of computers and beer at http://squareone.pheared.net.

Eileen Norcross, senior research fellow at the Mercatus Center at George Mason University. Her research has focused on state and local budgets, economic development, and the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) program. For more information, you can read her paper, "The Community Development Block Grant: Does it Work?"

Peter Snyder, contract programming. He specializes in Web 2.0 projects and Cocoa programming in Chicago, IL. He can be contacted about projects at snyderp@gmail.com, or at his website www.peteresnyder.com. You can read his daily thoughts at snyderp.tumblr.com.

Again, this is an independent website that is not affiliated or connected to any organization including the developers' employers

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/home/faqs

How do these projects fit in with the stimulus bill?


It is expected that the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act will be signed by the President on February 16. That legislation won't list the projects to be funded. Instead, it will appropriate money for federal grant programs, such as the Community Development Block Grant (CDBG) or Surface Transportation Program, which will then use the appropriated stimulus money to make grants to cities. In the case of CDBG, for example, the Department of Housing and Urban Development will be the agency that will decide (using a formula) which of the projects requested by the mayors will be funded.

That said, the funding Congress approves for these programs, and thus how much money cities will actually receive for their projects, may exceed or fall short of the mayors' suggestions. This means that not every project requested by the mayors will be funded. And that is why it's important for citizens to register their opinions on which projects they believe are critical and which are not. By the same token, it is also likely that many projects not yet proposed by localities (and thus not listed on this site) will receive funding via federal programs.

http://www.stimuluswatch.org/home/faqs

I've been stuck on that site since I went there. The audacity of these projects is unbelievable!

i forwarded this to family & friends, we need people see how the government is going to spend our retirement.

6 Million to convert 60 hybrid vehicles to plug-in technology. At a 100K per car to convert them, you could buy over a 100 brand new ones. 75 MILLION per mile for 3.5 miles of light rail in AZ.

600 MILLION for an African-American Heritage Trail in MS.

It's a laundry list of everything liberal politickians want, but were so idiotic that only during a time of "crisis" could they be sneaked through.