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Says Gateway Pundit who provides a partial list of the smoked bacon on the Iraqi supplemental bill listed at the Club for Growth website:
Aquaculture Operations: Provides $5 million for payments to “aquaculture operations and other persons in the U.S. engaged in the business of breeding, rearing, or transporting live fish” (such as shellfish, oysters and clams) to cover economic losses incurred as a result of an emergency order issued by the Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service on October 24, 2006.
Spinach: Provides $25 million for payments to spinach producers that were unable to market spinach crops as a result of the FDA Public Health Advisory issued on September 14, 2006.
Hurricane Citrus Program: Provides $100 million to provide assistance to citrus producers (such as orange producers) in the area declared a disaster related to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita.
NASA: Provides $35 million to NASA, under the “exploration capabilities” account, for “expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina.”
Corps of Engineers: Provides $1.3 billion to Corps of Engineers for continued repairs on the levee system in New Orleans.
FEMA: Provides $4.3 billion for disaster relief at the Federal Emergency Management Agency (FEMA). The bill would eliminate the state and local matching requirements for certain FEMA assistance (in connection with Hurricanes Katrina, Rita, Wilma, and Dennis) in the states of Louisiana, Mississippi, Texas, and Florida, and provides that the federal portion of these costs will be 100%.
HUD Indian Housing: Provides $80 million in tenant-based rental assistance for public and Indian housing under HUD. Crop Disaster Assistance: Provides roughly $3 billion in agriculture assistance to crop producers and livestock owners experiencing losses in 2005, 2006, or 2007 due to bad weather.
Shrimp: Provides $120 million to the shrimp industry for expenses related to the consequences of Hurricane Katrina.
Frozen Farmland: Provides $20 million for the cleanup and restoration of farmland damaged by freezing temperatures during a time period beginning on January 1, 2007 through the date of enactment.
Milk Income Loss Contract (MILC) Program: Provides $283 million for payments under the MILC program, to extend the life of the program for one year, through September 30, 2008. MILC provides payments to dairy farmers when milk prices fall below a certain rate.
Peanut Storage Subsidies: Provides $74 million to extend peanut storage payments through 2007. The Peanut Subsidy Storage program, which is set to expire this year, pays farmers for the storage, handling, and other costs for peanuts voluntarily placed in the marketing loan program.
FDA Office of Women’s Health: Provides $4 million for the Office of Women’s Health at the Food and Drug Administration.
National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA): Provides $60.4 million for fishing communities, Indian tribes, individuals, small businesses, including fishermen, fish processors, and related businesses for assistance related to “the commercial fishery failure.” According to the Committee Report, this funding is to be used to provide disaster relief for those along the California and Oregon coast affected by the “2006 salmon fishery disaster in the Klamath River.”
Avian Flu: Provides $969 million for the Department of HHS to continue to prepare and respond to an avian flu pandemic. Of this funding, $870 million is to be used for the development of vaccines.
Secure Rural Schools Act (Forest County Payments): Provides $400 million to be used for one-time payments to be allocated to states under the Secure Rural Schools and Community Self-Determination Act of 2000. This program provides a funding stream (known as forest county payments) to counties with large amounts of Bureau of Land Management land, in order to compensate for the loss of receipt-sharing payments on this land caused by decreased revenue from timber sales due to environmental protections for endangered species. The authorization for these forest county payments expired at the end of FY 2006, and counties received their last payment under the Act in December 2006.
LIHEAP: Provides $400 million for the Low-Income Home Energy Assistance Program (LIHEAP).
Vaccine Compensation: Provides $50 million to compensate individuals for injuries caused by the H5N1 vaccine, which is a flu vaccine. Payment to Widow of Rep. Norwood: Provides $165,200 to Gloria W. Norwood, the widow of former Rep. Charlie Norwood (R-GA), an RSC Member, who passed away last month. In the Emergency Supplemental Appropriations Act of 2005 (H.R. 1268), Congress provided $162,100 to Doris Matsui, the widow of former Rep. Robert Matsui.
Capitol Power Plant: Provides $50 million to the Capitol Power Plant for asbestos abatement and safety improvements. Liberia: Provides that money appropriated for FY 2007 for the Bilateral Economic Assistance program at the Department of Treasury may be used to assist Liberia in retiring its debt arrearages to the International Monetary Fund, the International Bank for Reconstruction and Development, and the African Development Bank.
SCHIP: Provides $750 million to the Secretary of HHS to provide assistance to the State Children’s Health Insurance Program (SCHIP) “shortfall states,”, in the form of an amount “as the Secretary determines will eliminate the estimated shortfall.” This provision is direct spending that is essentially capped at $750 million and designated as an emergency to avoid PAYGO constraints.
Minimum Wage Increase: Increases the federal minimum wage from $5.15-per-hour to $7.25-per-hour over two-plus years-a 41% increase. Yields $16.5 billion in private-sector costs over five years.
Tax Increases and Shifts: Implements several tax increases and shifts, including: denying the lowest maximum capital gains tax rate for certain minors and adults, extending the suspension of interest payments due to the IRS, and adjusting the deadlines for corporate estimated tax payments. Costs taxpayers $1.380 billion over the FY2007-FY2017 period.
Here is more bad news from the anti-pork front.
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Time for the demacrats to get the loonie toons treatment BOP EM OVER THE HEAD WITH REALY BIG MALLET:razz:
I do see one thing wrong with the analysis on the minimum wage increase. It’s NOT a 41% increase. With the increased amounts of taxes that will be charged because of the increased wage rate it will be higher in overall costs than just the actual wage increase. Don’t forget Unemployment Compensation Insurance payments and Social security taxes are also based on wages so those will go up as well. All lower pay scale employees will also expect a raise to keep them above minimum wage and that will cause increased costs as well. The end result is that we can expect to see more people on unemployment lines as employers will no longer be able to retain the same staffing levels, good employees will not receive raises that they deserve because less productive ones are getting the money instead, service in restaurants, and retail outlets will get worse due to staffing restrictions, and retail prices will also rise. I was managing a retail store during an increase in minimum wage, I was forced to cut my staffing by over 10% just to keep payroll in line with sales. I had a lot of unhappy part time employees who were no longer getting 20+ hours a week. Not a one of them was getting paid minimum wage, but with the large increase, to keep them above minimum wage, I had to cut their hours. It didn’t thrill any of us. They weren’t making as much money and I had to work to make up the staffing shortfall. They went from working 20+ hours a week to working 10 - 15 and I went to working 60+. Many of them quit because they weren’t getting enough hours to make it worth coming in.
Then there are the Union jobs that have their payscale based as a percentage of minimum wage which will get HUGE increases causing many building projects to become prohibitively expensive resulting in the workers who would’ve been working building them and transporting materials to the site (Trade union and teamster guys listen up) being unemployed as well. Of course this doesn’t apply to government building projects, cost overruns never stop the government from building things, it will however cause the private sector to curtail its construction plans. Outside of the government, who agrees to buy a product for one price and then pays 40 - 60% more for it? Expect a number of commercial construction companies to find themselevs facing bankruptcy.
Meet the new boss, same as the old boss. I guess we were fooled again, well the people who voted democrat were.
‘buying votes to lose a war’??
You jest. That war was lost when Georgie Porgie decided impose mom, apple pie, and the “Amerkun Way” on people who didn’t want our reality.
The fat lady’s sung folks.
Time to bring our people home before anymore die in the name of Bush’s lust for oil and blood.
Democrats are out buying votes to lose a war
That is EXACTLY what they are doing…
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4. Oh gee Eben I thought it was Osama Bin Ladens lust for blood and oil that started this whole thing. Your wrong about the fat lady singing though because we are still a free nation and not under Islamic rule. Sorry!