What Obama Meant by "Line by Line"

Remember when Obama said during the campaign..."and when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."? He LIED!

Details of the Obama stimulus package include:

#$246 million tax break for Hollywood movie producers to buy motion picture film.

• $650 million for the digital television converter box coupon program.

• $88 million for the Coast Guard to design a new polar icebreaker (arctic ship).

• $600 million to buy hybrid vehicles for federal employees.

• $150 million for Smithsonian museum facilities.

• $75 million for “smoking cessation activities.”

• $200 million for public computer centers at community colleges.

• $25 million for tribal alcohol and substance abuse reduction.

• $500 million for flood reduction projects on the Mississippi River.

• $10 million to inspect canals in urban areas.

• $6 billion to turn federal buildings into “green” buildings.

• $650 million for wildland fire management on forest service lands.

• $1.2 billion for “youth activities,” including youth summer job programs.

• $500 million for building and repairing National Institutes of Health facilities in Bethesda, Maryland.

• $160 million for “paid volunteers” at the Corporation for National and Community Service.

• $5.5 million for “energy efficiency initiatives” at the Department of Veterans Affairs National Cemetery Administration.

• $850 million for Amtrak.

• $100 million for reducing the hazard of lead-based paint.

• $110 million to the Farm Service Agency to upgrade computer systems.

• $200 million in funding for the lease of alternative energy vehicles for use on military installations.

And folks, that's just the details we know about. Many other projects are revealed every day and proven to be nothing but earmarks and pet projects.

Sen. Coburn’s report included 100 examples of “stimulus” waste, including:

* $3 million for a turtle crossing in northern Florida.
* $16 million on scarcely used rural bridges in Wisconsin.
* $840,000 for a bridge in Stevens Point, Wisconsin that carries 260 vehicles a day.
* $9.4 million to renovate a train station that has sat vacant for more than 30 years.
* $2.2 million to install skylights in Montana’s state-run liquor warehouse.
* $1 million dollars for an empty airport in Democratic Rep. John Murtha’s district.
* Money to study the impact wind farms have on the sage grouse population in Oregon.
* Social Security checks that have been mailed to thousands of dead people.

And it wouldn’t be a government project without signs taking credit for spending your money: “Road signs costing $300 each, [are] being placed at construction sites to alert motorists that the project is being paid for by the stimulus money,” the Associated Press reported.

Yes America. Obama looked you right in the eye and lied to you.