Thread: PORK For Maine From Our Two Traitors!

This is what bought off Olympia Snowe and Susan Collins vote!
Will this all be worth the total collapse of America? I THINK NOT!!!
Here is their contact info for you to THANK them yourself!

Susan Collins email:
http://collins.senate.gov/public/contin ... lins.Email
Phone:
Washington, D.C. Office (202) 224-2523

Augusta Office (207) 622-8414
Bangor Office (207) 945-0417
Biddeford Office (207) 283-1101
Caribou Office (207) 493-7873
Lewiston Office (207) 784-6969
Portland Office (207) 780-3575

Olympia Snowe:
Phone:
Phone Washington (202) 224-5344
Toll Free in Maine: (800) 432-1599
Fax: (202) 224-1946

Email:
http://snowe.senate.gov/public/index.cf ... nowe.Email


$2.25 MILLION to operate the Agriculture Department's New England Plant, Soil and Water Lab in Orono.

$173,000 for University of Maine research on wild blueberries

$500,000 for Acadia Partners for Science and Learning, a student and teacher training program in Winter Harbor.

$100,000 for the Seals as Sentinels program at the Marine Environmental Research Institute's, which studies toxic contamination in seal blubber as an environmental indicator.

$951,500 for the Maine Tidal Power Initiative, a project of the University of Maine and Maine Maritime Academy to develop tidal power in the Gulf of Maine.

$750,000 to buy land to add to Acadia National Park.

$333,000 to buy videoconferencing, podcasting and other communications technologies for the Wishcamper Center at the University of Southern Maine

$190,000 to help support the 2-1-1 Maine system, a telephone service that connects callers with health and social services programs.

Anyone Know what bought off Arlen Spectors vote?

This is the worst one:

$173,000 for University of Maine research on wild blueberries

Dixie

The REAL reason they voted on the Stimulus was for the "Pork" for Acadia National Park and Acadia Partners (over $1 million dollars of prime "Maine pork" for the Sierra Club - to keep developers out of the park) -

S.1329 Add to

Acadia National Park Improvement Act of 2007

A bill to extend the Acadia National Park Advisory Commission, to provide improved visitor services at the park, and for other purposes.

Sponsor: Susan Collins
Co-Sponsor: Olympia Snowe

I don't think we should nitpick about smaller projects that are industrially or economically related. If that were the case I would also have to be against research into agricultural technology ---which would reduce the demand for foreign workers. At 173,000 dollars it would take six of these projects just to get to one million dollars, 6,000 to get to one billion dollars and 750 times that to get to the total stimulus package. I would rather concentrate on objecting to the big, overtly political money wasters.

That's not saying that I support the Maine Senators' vote for the package......

Specter didn't sell out cheaply and made sure the money went for something he would personally benefit from. He has cancer, read on:

http://www.aacr.org/home/public--media/news.aspx?d=1256

American Association for Cancer Research Lauds Senator Arlen Specter for Leadership in the Fight Against Cancer

February 17, 2009

PHILADELPHIA - Following the passage of the American Recovery and Investment Act of 2009 by Congress, the American Association for Cancer Research praised Republican Senator Arlen Specter of Pennsylvania for his leadership in including a $10 billion investment in the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

"Senator Specter has demonstrated a long-standing commitment to the advancement of biomedical research and to the fight against cancer," said Margaret Foti, Ph.D., M.D. (h.c.), CEO of the American Association for Cancer Research. "Through high courage, leadership and foresight, Senator Specter has helped to secure a vitally needed $10 billion investment in the NIH that will support a new age of discovery and patient care."

Investment in the NIH drives innovation that leads to economic growth and job creation. NIH funds projects at universities, hospitals and research institutions across the country. According to Families USA, every dollar spent on research creates $2.25 in local economic activity. NIH research has fueled the biotechnology economy and has been critical to revolutions in drug discovery and patient care.

In a continuing effort to combat disease and improve public health, the NIH last year awarded 47,000 grants totaling $20.4 billion that supported salaries, equipment and infrastructure across the country. The average NIH research grant supports seven jobs.

An estimated $1.3 billion of the total $10 billion will be used by the National Cancer Institute to support projects aimed at devising new and better ways to combat the more than 200 diseases we call cancer.

"The additional money comes at a propitious time, when so much basic science is ripe for translation to the clinic," said Foti. "We are grateful to Senator Specter for recognizing both the immediate opportunity that increased funding provides and the need for stable support of our nation's scientific enterprises over the long term. These investments in cancer research will save lives and decrease the current $219 billion burden of cancer on our health care system and the economy."

Originally Posted by Dixie

This is the worst one:

$173,000 for University of Maine research on wild blueberries

Dixie

Why study them??? We grow and sell tons!
What a bunch of crap!

If that were the case I would also have to be against research into agricultural technology ---which would reduce the demand for foreign workers.

I'm confused??? I could give a rats A@@ about FOREIGN WORKERS!!!!

STOP all foreign workers!
The hell with every country but US & Canada, they way it always was before NAFTA!

They threw Americans under the bus for garbage projects that benefit no one!

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