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If you are offended by foul language, I would recommend against reading this.  If you curse and swear at the TV every time this new stabilization act comes up, then read on and enjoy!

I am just absolutely fed up (no pun intended) with the unchecked and useless spending.  So, I sat down and read through H.R. 1 tonight.  What would H.R. 1 unmodified spend our money on?

Keep in mind that ALL of the dollar amounts below are completely separate and in addition to regular annual budgets, grants and appropriations!!!!!!  Also note that I did not mention any of the vast governmental expansion going on in this SPENDING BILL!  Hundreds of pages of various other non-appropriation provisions are included as well that I am not even going to attempt to dive into.

Synopsis of the Bill:  I am no highly educated economist but I am smart enough to know crapbag spending from stimulus and I don’t believe you will find much stimulus really going on here!

Approximately $4.5 Billion for Federal management/oversight of the funds  (HAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)
Approximately $2.1 Billion for Offices of Inspector General for management/oversight of funds  (Oh wait, one more time... HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA!!!!)
$25 Million for salaries and expenses for the Government Accountability Office for oversight activities relating to this Act (And.... nope, sorry, laughbox is broken now!)
$14 Million for a new Accountability and Transparency Board  (Great idea!)
$44 Million for construction, repair, improvement activities and rental payments of Department of Agriculture Buildings and Facilities
$209 Million for deferred maintenance of Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service facilities
$245 Million for salaries and expenses for the purpose of maintaining and modernizing the information technology system of the Farm Service Agency
$350 Million for watershed and flood prevention operations of the Natural Resources Conservation Service
$50 Million for watershed rehabilitation by the Natural Resources Conservation Service
Approximately $7.6 Billion for Rural Development Program loans
Approximately $23 Billion for Rural Housing Service loans
Approximately $3 Billion for Rural Utilities Service broadband loans and grants
Approximately $100 Million for implementation of new State agencies management information systems or to improve existing systems as part of the Nutrition Program for Women, Infants, and Childre (WIC) of the Food and Nutrition Service
$150 Million for the Emergency Food Assistance Program
$150 Million for the administration of a temporary increase in benefits under the supplemental nutrition assistance program
$250 Million for Department of Commerce Economic Development Assistance Programs
$1 Billion for Periodic Censuses and Program by the Bureau of the Census  (Is this where they will plant the RFID chip in my arm?)
$350 Million for salaries and expenses for National Telecommunications and Information Administration
Approximately $2.9 Billion for Wireless and Broadband Deployment Grant Programs
$650 Million for the Digital-To-Analog Converter Box Program
$100 Million for NIST Scientific and Technical Research and Services
$100 Million for NIST Industrial Technology Services
$300 Million for construction of NIST research facilities
$400 Million for habitat restoration and mitigation activities by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
$600 Million for accelerating satellite development and acquisition, acquiring climate sensors and climate modeling capacity and establishing climate data records by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration
$3 Billion for state and local law enforcement assistance
$1 Billion for community oriented policing services grants
$400 Million for science by the National Aeronautics and Space Administration
$50 Million for cross-agency support by NASA
$2.5 Billion for research and related activities by the National Science Foundation
$100 Million for education and human resources for the National Science Foundation
$400 Million for major research equipment and facilities construction by the National Science Foundation
$4.5 Billion for improvement, repair and modernization of Department of Defense facilities, restore and modernize Army barracks and invest in the energy efficiency of DOD facilities
$350 Million for DOD energy research and development
$2 Billion for Army Corps of Engineers civil construction
$250 Million for Army Corps of Engineers Mississippi River and Tributaries projects
Approximately $2.2 Billion for Army Corps of Engineers operation and maintenance
$25 Million for Army Corps of Engineers Regulatory Program
$500 Million for Department of Interior water reclamation and rural water projects
$18.5 Billion for Department of Energy energy efficiency and renewable energy  programs
$4.5 Billion for Department of Energy electricity delivery and energy reliability projects
$1 Billion for Department of Energy advanced battery loans
$500 Million for Department of Energy institutional loans
$8 Billion for Department of Energy innovative technology loans
$2.4 Billion to demonstrate carbon capture and sequestration technologies by the Department of Energy (What the crap is carbon capture?HuhHuh?  Give me a million and I will go pick up all the coal I can find and put it into buckets for you!)
$2 Billion for Department of Energy science  (I’m blinded by science!)
$500 Million for Defense Environmental Cleanup
$3.25 Billion worth of outstanding repayment balances by the Western Area Power Administration
$3.25 Billion in borrowing authority to the Bonneville Power Administration
$7.7 Billion for real property activities of the Federal Buildings Fund (Hey, it is better than fake property activities!)
$600 Million for an energy efficient Federal Motor Vehicle Fleet
$426 Million for administrating SBA loans (Yep, this is the most intelligent thing I have ever seen!  Give less attention to troubled small businesses, the current backbone of the US, than what the government will spend on green cars!  Dumbasses!  What gets better is that the requirements for SBA loans in this bill are 26 pages and the green government cars utilize less than one page!  Once again, Einsteins!)
$100 Million for sea ports of entry non-intrusive detection technology by Homeland Security
$150 Million for construction of Homeland Security inspection facilities at land border ports of entry
$500 Million for purchase and installation of Homeland Security explosive detection systems and emerging checkpoint technologies for aviation security
$150 Million for the Coast Guard for alteration or removal of obstructive bridges  (Oops, paid lots of money to build a bridge that’s in the way and needs to be torn down!)
$200 Million for FEMA emergency food and shelter programs
$325 Million for priority road, bridge and trail repair or decommissioning, critical deferred maintenance projects, facilities construction and renovation, hazardous fuels reduction and remediation of abandoned mine or well sites for the Bureau of Land Management
$300 Million for priority road and bridge repair and replacement and critical deferred maintenance and improvement projects on US Fish and Wildlife Service properties
$1.7 Billion for National Park Service construction
$200 Million for revitalization of the National Mall  (Still there folks, they just have to seed instead of sod now!)
$100 Million for National park Service Centennial Challenge signature projects and programs  (What the hell?)
$200 Million to the USGS for surveys, investigations and research
$500 Million for Bureau of Indian Affairs construction
$800 Million for EPA Hazardous Substance Superfund Remedial program
$200 Million for EPA Leaking Underground Storage Tank Trust Fund Program  (Damn, even leaking tanks have trust funds!)
$8.4 Billion for State and Tribal Assistance Grants
$650 Million for Forest Service capital improvement and maintenance
$850 Million for wildland fire management (That is a lot of freakin’ canteens and rakes!  Don’t dog me here folks, I WAS a firefighter and have fought 1000+ acre fires!)
$550 Million for Indian Health Service facilities
$150 Million for deferred maintenance projects, repair, revitalization and alteration of Smithsonian Institution facilities
$50 Million for grants and administration by and of the National Endowment for the Arts
$4 Billion to the Department of Labor for training and employment services (Training for...?)
$120 Million for community service employment for older Americans (Age discrimination maybe?)
$500 Million for state unemployment insurance and employment service operations (Again let’s spend more on green cars for our elitists than for unemployment insurance!  Don’t need to be a Wernher Von Braun to be a governmental leader.)
$80 Million for the enforcement of worker protection laws and regulations, oversight and coordination activities related to the infrastructure and unemployment insurance investments of this stabilization act  (Do they still get the money if nobody is employed?  Does a tree that falls in the forest with nobody around to hear it make a sound?)
$300 Million for construction, rehabilitation and acquisition of Job Corps Centers  (Let’s make pretty buildings and not worry about all of those people that could have been employed with the money!)
Approximately $2.2 Billion for health resources and services:  facilities, training, etc.
$462 Million to the CDC for disease control, research and training  (We may all die from the bubonic plague, but will have energy efficient cars in the Federal Fleet!  YEAH!)
$3 Billion for National Institute of Health grants or contracts and research
$500 Million for NIH buildings and facilities
$700 Million for comparative effectiveness research for the Medicare Prescription program ($700 Million buys lots of $4 Walmart generics!)
$1 Billion for low-income home energy assistance
$2 Billion for payments to states for the Child Care and Development Block Grant
$3.2 Billion for Head Start, Early Head Start and other Children and Family Services programs
$200 Million for Aging Services Programs
$2 Billion to the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology for such things as continued work on advancing health care information enterprise integration ($2 Billion, huh?  Enterprise integration?  I still can’t figure out why healthcare costs so much.)
$900 Million for public health and social service emergency funds to support advanced research and development
$3 Billion to establish a Prevention and Wellness Fund
$13 Billion for education for the disadvantaged  (Holy Crap!  I am a middle class, average American with four kids.  Will my kids be considered disadvantaged?)
$100 Million for Impact Aid to the Elementary and Secondary Education Act (Like a meteor impact?)
More than $1 Billion for School Improvement Programs
$225 Million for School Innovation and Improvement
$13.6 Billion for Special Education
$700 Million for rehabilitation services and disability research
More than $16 Billion for Student Financial Assistance
$50 Million for administration of the $16 Billion in Student Financial Assistance
$100 Million for Higher Education (OK, so now we are going to build pedestals to elevate educational facilities?)
$250 Million for the Institute of Education Sciences
$14 Billion for School Modernization, Renovation and Repair
$6 Billion for Higher Education Modernization, Renovation and Repair (Yep, let’s modernize, renovate and repair those elevating pedestals!)
$200 Million for AmeriCorps
$900 Million for Social Security Administration expenses
Approximately $6.0 Billion for DOD Military Construction
$950 Million for VA Medical Facilities
$50 Million for VA National Cemetery Administration for monument and memorial repairs
$276 Million for an Administration of Foreign Affairs Capital Investment Fund
$224 Million for some sort of US and Mexico water quantity program construction  (I give up!)
$3 Billion for FAA grants
$30 Billion for highway infrastructure investment (Finally, something the man said this bill would do! Woopee!)
$300 Million for grants for intercity passenger rail service
$800 Million for grants to Amtrak
$9 Billion for Federal Transit Administration
$5 Billion for Public Housing
$2.5 Billion for Elderly, Disable and Section 8 Housing energy retrofits
$500 Million for Native American Housing Block Grants
$5.2 Billion for a Community Planning and Development Fund
$1.5 Billion for HOME Investment Partnerships Program (Seriously, what is this?)
$10 Million for Self-Help and Assisted Homeownership Opportunity Program (Yeah, I really don’t want to know what this is!)
$1.5 Billion for Homeless Assistance Grants
$100 Million for lead hazard reduction
$79 Billion for State Fiscal Stabilization (There goes states’ rights!)

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