Obama's 2008 Federally Funded earmarks

Obama's Empty Suit · #1 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 11:58 AM

This cocksucker spends federal funds like a drunken sailor. This is OUR money he wants to spend in Illinois, can you imagine what this idiot would do running the whole country? Anyone who isn't sickened by this outrageous wasteful spending is a fucking idiot.

Obama Announces FY08 Federal Funding Requests
Thursday, June 21, 2007
Discloses earmarks to improve government transparency

WASHINGTON, DC – U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today announced that he had requested federal funding for the following projects, in the amounts designated by his constituents and several national organizations, as part of this year's annual appropriations process:

Adler Planetarium, to support replacement of its projector and related equipment, $3,000,000

AIDSCARE, Inc., for general operating support, $750,000

AIDSCARE, Inc., for completion of the North Lawndale Campus, $2,000,000

Aledo, IL, to support its replacement of two aging water towers, $750,000

American Red Cross of Illinois, for emergency preparedness, $5,000,000

American Theater Company, for the construction of a new facility in Logan Square, $200,000

Army Corps of Engineers in the Chicago District of Illinois, to support permanent construction of the Asian Carp Barrier, $7,500,000

Army Corps of Engineers in the Chicago District of Illinois, to support Operations and Maintenance of the permanent Asian Carp Barrier, $1,000,000

Army Corps of Engineers in the City of Rock Island, to support construction of Sunset Marina Harbor Entrance Improvements, $500,000

Army Corps of Engineers in Illinois, to support project UMR-IWW System Navigation Study, IL, IA, MN, MO, & WI, $24,000,000

Aurora University, to the Center for Latino Leadership and Education, $400,000

Benedictine University in Lisle, for the First Responder Program – An Education Initiative for Public Safety Officers and Iraqi and Afghanistan Veterans, $1,750,000

Carpentersville, IL, for the Carpentersville Community Response Team, $500,000

Carthage, IL, to develop the Illinois 336 Corridor Carthage Exchange, $1,350,000

University of Illinois at Chicago, for development of rapid wound healing therapies, $4,800,000

University of Illinois at Chicago, to develop a hand-held device used in combat, $2,000,000

Channahon, IL, for road upgrades, $12,000,000

Expansion of the Chicago Children's Advocacy Center for child abuse support services, $500,000

Chicago Children's Museum, for the construction of a new Chicago Children's Museum facility, $1,000,000

Chicago Children's Museum, for its Community Health and Wellness Initiatives, $300,000

Chicago Park District, for the development of DuSable Park, $3,000,000

Chicago Public Schools, for their Chicago Reading Initiative: Supported Literacy Programs, $4,000,000

Chicago State University, for research into unmanned aerial systems, $5,000,000

Chicago State University, to develop a sustainable and portable power system for military operation, $5,000,000

Chicago State University, to the HIV/ AIDS Policy and Research Institute, $1,000,000

Children's Memorial Hospital Intensive Care Unit Facilities, $3,000,000

Jesse Brown Veterans Administration Medical Center, $3,000,000

Easter Seals Metropolitan Chicago (ESMC), for its therapeutic School and Center for Autism Research, $1,500,000

Federation of Independent Illinois Colleges and Universities in Springfield, for its Training Health Professionals program, $500,000

Field Museum, for roof repair and rainwater diversion, $4,900,000

Field Museum, to support the expansion of the Halls of the Americas, $1,000,000

Franklin Park, IL, for construction of the Grand Avenue Underpass in Chicago, IL to ease congestion and increase traffic safety, $3,000,000

Galesburg, IL, to support construction of a new water treatment facility at the Oquawka, Illinois facility along the Mississippi River, $1,500,000

Governors State University, for the Center of Excellence in Health Professions Education, $1,000,000

Illinois Central College, for its Central Illinois Collaborative Advanced Manufacturing Workforce Initiative, $3,000,000

Illinois Institute of Technology, for research into impact-resistant materials, $1,500,000

Illinois Institute of Technology, to support its Integrated Advance Energy Systems Research Initiative, $750,000

Illinois Primary Health Care Association (IPHCA), for the Electronic Health Record Project IPHCA, $2,000,000

Illinois State University, for the Chicago Teacher Education Pipeline Programs and Partnerships, $300,000

Illinois State University, for the Great Lakes Teacher and Preparation Leadership Preparation Consortium, $500,000

Illinois State University, to improve manufacturing competitiveness with further development of the Integrated Manufacturing Laboratory (IML), $500,000

Johnsburg, IL, to support construction of additional sewer lines, $2,000,000

Lake County, for its Integrated Criminal Justice Information System, $1,000,000

Lee County Highway Department in Amboy, Illinois, for road upgrades, $300,000

Lewis and Clark Community College, for its mobile health clinic to provide healthcare services to rural areas, $350,000

Lewis University Airport in Romeoville, for the extension of its primary runway, $3,420,000

Long Creek, IL, to support construction of new water towers to increase its water capacity, $660,000

Loretto Hospital, for the Launa Thompson Women's Health Pavilion, $550,000

Loyola University Chicago, to the Center for School District Leadership for distance learning, $1,000,000

Manteno, IL, to connect existing and proposed parks in Kankakee County as part of the Manteno Greenways Trail System, $860,475

Martin Luther King, Jr. Community Center in Rock Island, for the renovation and expansion of the Center, $1,000,0000

McHenry County, for its Sheriff's Office law enforcement communication system, $1,000,000

McHenry County, to widen Miller Road, $500,000

McHenry County, for Flexible and Sustainable Training Solutions Initiative, $600,000

Memorial Hospital, for necessary equipment upgrades for vascular disease diagnostics and screenings, $1,800,000

Memorial Medical Center, for Advanced Flatplate Cardiac Catherization/Electrophysiology Laboratory, $1,000,000

Metra, to expand and improve service, $65,000,000

MetroLiNK Transit in Rock Island, to build a new state-of-the-art MetroLiNK Maintenance Facility, $5,000,000

Millikin University School of Nursing, for the expansion and upgrade of their nursing program, $500,000

Mobile C.A.R.E. Foundation in Chicago, for the acquisition and operation of Asthma Vans, $300,000

Moline, IL, for the design and construction of River Tech Boulevard Road, $1,595,000

Moline, IL, to address congestion in the I-74 Corridor, $8,000,000

Morrison, IL, for construction of a railroad overpass, $3,812,000

Continued.....

Obama's Empty Suit · #2 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 11:59 AM

Mount Carroll, IL, to support reconstruction of its water distribution system, $2,000,000

Mujeres Latinas en Accion, for the Parent Support Program and Women in Transition Program, $295,000

National Center for Family Literacy, for its Family Literacy for All Expansion, $250,000

National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for its cybersecurity initiative, $7,500,000

National Center for Supercomputing Applications at the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, for its Technology Research, Education and Commercialization Center (TRECC), $5,000,000

National Myoclonus Center, for the expansion of the National Myoclonus Center, $400,000

Normal, IL, for the construction of a multimodal transportation center, $10,000,000

Northeastern Illinois Sewer Consortium, for sanitary and storm sewer system upgrades, $500,000

Oakwood, IL, to replace its water distribution system, $836,000

Ogle County Highway Department, for the Southwest Rochelle Truck Loop, $150,000

Olympia Fields, IL, to make safety upgrades and improvements of the 203rd Street and Crawford Avenue, $1,000,000

Oregon, IL, for Route 251 & Steward Road Intersection Improvements, $125,000

Orland Park, IL, to expand U.S. 45, $450,000

PACE Suburban Bus, to replace the radio system in all of its 672 fixed route buses, $2,500,000

Patterson, IL, to support replacement of its "Drake Road" water main, $138,000

Peoria, IL, to support its construction of its combined sewer overflow replacement, $500,000

Poder Learning Center, for workforce training program, $200,000

Regional Climate Center, for the Midwestern Regional Climate Center (MRCC)/Illinois State Water Survey, $6,000,000

Riverside Healthcare, for a Computerized Physician Order Entry system for Kankakee, IL, $2,000,000

Rochelle, IL, for phase two of the Jack Dame Road/Union Pacific Railroad Overpass, $1,000,000

Rock Island Arsenal, to repair the roof on Building 299 for additional manufacturing space, $6,200,000

Rock Island Arsenal, to support a more robust capability to rapidly produce up-armor vehicle kits, $10,500,000

Rock Island Arsenal, to renovate and expand Rock Island Arsenal's combined Fire and Police Station facility, $3,500,000

Rock Island Arsenal, to support the development and enhancement of flexible lightweight metal technology, $1,350,000

Rockford College, to enhance classrooms, $490,000

Saint Xavier University, for nursing skills lab equipment, $500,000

Saint Xavier University, for the expansion of an early childhood professional development center, $900,000

Shawneetown, IL, to support updates and replacement of its water distribution system, $550,000

Shedd Aquarium, for its At-Risk Youth Mentoring Initiative, $600,000

Spark College, for real-time writers and captioning training project, $750,000

Southern Illinois University, for the National Corn to Ethanol Research Center, $2,000,000

Southern Illinois University, for the Paul Simon Public Policy Institute, $1,025,000

Southern Illinois University, for the School of Medicine Simmons Cooper Cancer Institute, $2,200,000

Southern Illinois University, Purdue University, and University of Kentucky, for coal research, $5,000,000

Thurgood Marshall College Fund (TMCF), for the National Education, Science, and Critical Skills Capacity Building Initiative, $2,000,000

University of Illinois, College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Sciences, for the Center for Advanced Bioenergy Research, $1,000,000

University of Illinois, College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Sciences, for the Illinois-Missouri Biotechnology Alliance, $3,000,000

University of Illinois, College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Sciences, for the Illinois Program for Integrated Sustainable Agriculture, $2,500,000

University of Illinois, College of Agriculture Consumer and Environmental Sciences, for the Soybean Disease Biotechnology Center , $2,000,000

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, College of Engineering, for Nanomedical Technologies, $3,000,000

University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, Department of Electrical and Computer Engineering, to encourage further education in technical domains that can be cleared by the Defense Security Service, $2,000,000

University of Illinois, for the Urban Teaching and Leadership Center, $1,000,000

West Frankfort, IL, to support replacement of its Big Ditch Pumping Station, $550,000

Wetlands Initiative of Illinois, to support its Illinois River Nutrient Farm Pilot Project, $11,810,000

Women's Sports Foundation, for its GoGirlGo! Chicago Initiative, $1,000,000

Center for Civic Education, for its National Council for Economic Education, $33,000,000

National Writing Project, $30,000,000

Reach Out and Read, Inc, $10,000,000

YMCA of the USA, for pioneering for healthy communities, $5,000,000

This guy has some set of balls......

Teak · #3 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 12:30 PM

Thats why EVERYONE'S income taxes will skyrocket if this clown is elected. Yet the lemmings are gobbling his line of bull like it was Kobe beef. Its SAD really, really SAD.

Badmutha · #4 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 02:13 PM

.....is there any doubt why Barrack is rated the #1 liberal

This guy doesnt just spend money like the typical tax/spend liberal....this guy spends money like it was going out of style.

Barrack Obama.....America Just Can't Afford Him

FedUpAmerican · #5 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 02:28 PM

Get used to it morons.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

No matter how you cry babies piss and moan and TRY to discredit him.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

A man that will fix what your soon to be extinct party of idiot fucktard pedophile losers fucked up for the last 7 1/2 years.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

Get used to it.

McCaint doesn't have a prayer.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

Obama's Empty Suit · #6 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 02:51 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FedUpAmerican

No matter how you cry babies piss and moan and TRY to discredit him.

If posting his liberal shopping list for the rest of us to pay for is an attempt to discredit him so be it. Is it any wonder he's done so well at fund raising? He's bought the vote of virtually every special interest group in Illinois with our money.

It's an absolute disgrace that he dumped all that waste on the US taxpayers. Most of us don't enjoy being anally raped, but obviously you encourage it.

I can't say I'm surprised...

Teak · #7 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 02:54 PM

Quote:

Originally Posted by FedUpAmerican

Get used to it morons.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

No matter how you cry babies piss and moan and TRY to discredit him.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

A man that will fix what your soon to be extinct party of idiot fucktard pedophile losers fucked up for the last 7 1/2 years.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

Get used to it.

McCaint doesn't have a prayer.

PRESIDENT OBAMA.

If elected I will never address his as anything more than "Piss-ant Obama", even in letters challenging him on why he continually fails to fulfill his campaign promises.

Now I realize he has promised to increase your welfare check, but is $10 more per month really going to help you that much, fatboy? Hell, your food bill alone will go up 10 times that amount, should he be elected.

Obama's Empty Suit · #8 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 03:11 PM

Every state charges a tax on every gallon of gasoline for road improvement funding. Apparently this isn't enough for the magic negro, Bojangles has done one better, he's found a way to charge all of us to build or repair roads in Illinois.

Channahon, IL, for road upgrades, $12,000,000

Franklin Park, IL, for construction of the Grand Avenue Underpass in Chicago, IL to ease congestion and increase traffic safety, $3,000,000

Moline, IL, for the design and construction of River Tech Boulevard Road, $1,595,000

Moline, IL, to address congestion in the I-74 Corridor, $8,000,000

Ogle County Highway Department, for the Southwest Rochelle Truck Loop, $150,000

Olympia Fields, IL, to make safety upgrades and improvements of the 203rd Street and Crawford Avenue, $1,000,000

Oregon, IL, for Route 251 & Steward Road Intersection Improvements, $125,000

Orland Park, IL, to expand U.S. 45, $450,000

Words can't even express the damage this country is in for if this scumbag is elected.

Obama's Empty Suit · #9 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 03:28 PM

It just keeps getting worse.... Apparently we all helped his wife get a raise.

Quote:

Obama’s Earmarks
Michael van der Galien, March 14, 2008

It seems that Barack Obama knows how to play the earmarking game better than just about anyone else: an important fundraiser for the Obama’s was rewarded with a large sum of money for all his fundraising work. And the hospital that employs Michelle Obama was also rewarded with more than $1 million… not just because they employed Michelle, but also because they gave her a gigantic raise.

Here’s the story, in short, about Michelle Obama: “In 2006, the Chicago Tribune reported that Mrs. Obama’s compensation at the University of Chicago Hospital, where she is a vice president for community affairs, jumped from $121,910 in 2004, just before her husband was elected to the Senate, to $316,962 in 2005, just after he took office.”

And what did the hospital get back?

Dan Riehl notes, via Amanda Carpenter, that in the list of earmarks he requested, $1 Million was requested for the construction of a new hospital pavilion at the University Of Chicago. The request was put in in 2006.

The Obama fundraiser: “Obama’s Illinois finance chairman, James S. Crown, serves” on General Dynamics’ board of directors “and his family holds a sizable stake in the company.” Aside from that, the Crowns are major fundraisers for Obama. They “have raised more than $200,000 for the Obama campaign, according to a list of fundraisers posted on Obama’s campaign website.”

As if that’s not enough, James’ wife, Paula Crown, is also a member of Obama’s National Finance Committee.

General Dynamics oversaw the so-called “High Explosive Air Burst Technology Program.”

The result of their work for Obama:

Obama Requested $8 Million And Helped Secure $1.3 Million For The High Explosive Air Burst Technology Program. In 2006, Obama requested $8 million and helped secure $1.3 million for High Explosive Air Burst Technology funding. Through General Dynamics, this project supported the 25mm Bushmaster cannon, the primary weapon on the Army Bradley Fighting Vehicle (BFV) and the US Marines’ Light Armor Vehicle (LAV). Under contract for System Design and Demonstration (SDD), GD-OTS is developing a Family of Ammunition for the Army’s Future Combat System (FCS) to include a High Explosive Air Burst (HEAB) round. This program will upgrade the capability of the current forces BFV and LAV. Additional funding for the 25mm HEAB for the SFV and LAV will ensure this program will run effectively during its planned service until 2051. [House Report 109-676 (109th Congress); Obama Request Letter To The Senate Appropriations Subcommittee on Defense, 2006]

Life is good when you’re a friend of Obama. Isn’t it?

Every Obama supporter who whines about the money spent on the defense industry can take this article and shove it up your ass.

Obama's Empty Suit · #10 (**permalink**) 07-08-2008, 03:43 PM

THE ULTIMATE HYPOCRITE

This guy is unbelievable. After he unleashed his assualt on the federal taxpayers wallet in the form of federal earmarks, he said this....

Quote:

Obama Cosponsors One-Year Moratorium on All Congressional Earmarks
Monday, March 10, 2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. - U.S. Senator Barack Obama (D-IL) today released the following statement on his decision to cosponsor an amendment offered by Senator Jim DeMint to implement a one-year moratorium on all congressional earmarks during the FY 2009 appropriations cycle:

"As a U.S. Senator, I have long fought for greater transparency and accountability in federal spending. One of the legislative accomplishments of which I am most proud is a law I authored to create a searchable database of all federal contracts and grants. I also have championed greater disclosure requirements for earmarks to ensure that the public knows which member of Congress is sponsoring an earmark.

However, even with all of these reforms, I have come to believe that the system is broken. We can no longer accept a process that doles out earmarks based on a member of Congress' seniority, rather than the merit of the project. We can no longer accept an earmarks process that has become so complicated to navigate that a municipality or non-profit group has to hire high-priced D.C. lobbyists to do it. And we can no longer accept an earmarks process in which many of the projects being funded fail to address the real needs of our country.

The entire earmarks process needs to be re-examined and reformed. For that reason, I will be supporting Senator DeMint's amendment and will not be requesting earmarks this year for Illinois. Over the next year, I hope to work with my colleagues, both Democratic and Republican, to improve the earmarks process."

He's right, the system is broken. In fact it shouldn't even exist. Federally funded earmarks are a vehicle for crooked politicians like Hussein here to bribe campaign donors using our money.

YOU ARE A FUCKING FRAUD BARRY.