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If you pay $20/hour (it is probably less, so the resulting numbers are even higher..) to the cleaning staff, the (paltry) $25 million for cleaning the Capitol and congressional office buildings yields 1 million, 250 thousand man hours… or 625 man years … let’s just call it 1,250 people working full time for six months, and that is just one of the pork line items, and a relatively small one at that… Another interesting calculation, the cost per Representative for “teleworking and other costs” is $57,471.26. But they are being frugal, the cost per Senator is $100,000!
Just imagine if all those unnecessary earmarks were directed to the people who need it most – hospitals (to purchase more ventilators – you didn’t think all those companies are making them for free, did you?), health care workers, people who have lost their jobs, small business owners trying to stay in business and keep paying their people…
To government bureaucrats, billions and millions [of our money] are chump change, to we the people, mere thousands make a difference…
Lawrence D….You are so correct…This Christmas tree for the democrats is full of PORK that includes many items and funds for non GERMANE BS that were not passable on their own merits and our Republican Senate majority should be ashamed..Oh I forgot…No shame in DC…All spend us into oblivion..I fully understand the urgency and need …But this ????.Create a problem then try to solve it…Where was the Republican Conservative majority ? No dither or standing pat on the Virus only concept …Wow Wow…As Senator Kennedy said ..Minority leader Schumer needs to grow a pair of Oranges as relates to the takeover by Pelosi upon her return from California..It looks to me like the entire Republican Caucus needs to grow a set of Oranges also or just stay home…
Another reason for Term Limits rather than “The come along and get along”….
They barely got this signed and the Dems are already talking that more will be needed. Perhaps, but this hasn’t even gotten a start. If I were McConnell, I would go on national TV and state that if ANYTHING more needs to be done, it will be focused on [then state the list of deserving considerations, then go on to call out the other non Covid-19 BS that was tucked into this bill and other items that were pushed by Pelosi and her mob as being non-starters]. And if I were Trump, I’d publicly state I would try to re-deploy the Kennedy Center funds [he could personally make fund raising calls to the patrons of the Kennedy center and backfill the $25M, I bet], the $13M for Howard University, the $150M for the Arts [duct tape and a banana aren’t that expensive anyway] to hospitals, health care workers, and first responders – it would put the idiots who pushed for those things in a no win position of having to state the are necessary, at the expense of hospitals, health care workers, and first responders. Trump could try a maneuver to re-deploy those BS funds just as he has done with funds for the border wall. Even if he is unsuccessful, it would put a spotlight on the BS that was in this bill. Most of the mainstream media have glossed over these pork items, I doubt most people are aware or have really thought about it. Kimberly Strassell in a recent WSJ editorial laid out the realities pretty objectively – and it isn’t pretty.