Sunday, March 22, 2009
"Over one in five earmark dollars for Massachusetts from the budget bill goes to enhance the mystique of America's royal family": The Kennedy Legacy: Brought To You By the U.S. Taxpayer
...More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from the $410 billion omnibus federal spending package is going to help preserve the legacy of the Kennedys.
The bill includes $5.8 million for the planning and design of a building to house a new Edward M. Kennedy Institute for the Senate. The funding may also help support an endowment for the institute.
The bill also includes $22 million to expand facilities at the John F. Kennedy Presidential Library & Museum and $5 million more for a new gateway to the Boston Harbor Islands on the Rose Kennedy Greenway, a park system in downtown Boston named after Kennedy's mother and built on land opened up by the Big Dig highway project...
What would our economic system done without cash for the Rose Kennedy Greenway?
I await the massive billboard-sized Teddy Kennedy portraits. That's about what you expect in the typical one-party state.
