So if I'm reading this right, spending money on energy efficiency, security personel, waste disposal, flood defences, fighting health epidemics, education, and fire services is all 'pork'?! In that case, give me all the pork I can eat!
1. Energy efficiency - spending money on it will slightly decrease greenhouse emissions at the cost of harming the economy. Humanity accounts of 3% of the total global carbon emissions. Carbon Dioxide is harmless to humans and animals and healthy for plants, and the global heating trend in the last few years is firmly tied to sun activity (back in the 1970s they were saying carbon emissions cause global COOLING... which was ALSO caused by sun activity). While I firmly supported this before, all the reliable research shows that it is the sun activity that is causing this, not human carbon emissions.
PS. renewable is not GREEN, it is more environmentally damaging then conventional power sources; massive tracts of land need to be cleared, materials minded and process, etc, to produce renewable sources (like wind and solar). NUCLEAR is green, it has the smallest footprint of any other type of energy source known to man.
2. Security personel - We have too many of those actually, specifically ones whose jobs is to do illigal survailence of americans, fight the war on drugs, etc... we need cuts, not expanding of those programs.
3. Waste disposal - we already are disposing of waste, this is also most likely more recycling bullshit, which actually does more harm to the environment, AND it harms the ecnomy.
4. Flood defences - that is actually a good and necessary spenditure, that should go through, but it should not go through as part of an economy stimulus plan, it will harm to economy (money wasted), but it will help protect people and property from a potential disaster, this should go on its own bill.
5. STDs are not health epidemics in the united states, and the only people affected by it are those who practice unsafe sex... they to the deed, they are welcome to the consequences.
6. The only "education" I see there is "educate about the dangers of alcohol and tabacco"... everyone ALREADY KNOWS they are dangerous, and the government plans are so ineffective they could actually be blamed to increase consumption. Some bimbo saying this is your brain on drugs and then destroy a kitchen is not going to make kids avoid drugs.
7. Fire services - IF, and ONLY IF, you have an underfunded fire department, then it needs to have it boosted. But it should be its own bill, and it will not stimulate the economy. However most likely its a case of a perfectly funded firestations which are going to get more money, which will help the SPECIFIC counties getting the money (the stations will spend it locally obviously) at the cost of taxpayers in the entire country, thus it is pork.
