re: #133 taylork

I heard the speech, while I would agree that none of that stuff belonged in a stimulus bill, he clearly called it wasteful spending in his speech. It was a put down, he could have said something like “while many of these projects are useful (such as volcano monitoring) they don’t belong in a stimus bill. Instead he said

While some of the projects in the bill make sense, their legislation is larded with wasteful spending. It includes $300 million to buy new cars for the government, $8 billion for high-speed rail projects, such as a “magnetic levitation” line from Las Vegas to Disneyland, and $140 million for something called “volcano monitoring.” Instead of monitoring volcanoes, what Congress should be monitoring is the eruption of spending in Washington, D.C.

He clearly wasn’t just pointing out things that while worthwhile didn’t belong in a stimulus bill.