In this 410 Billion dollar funding bill is 126 million dollars that benefit the Kennedy name and legacy.
BOSTON – More than one out of every five dollars of the $126 million Massachusetts is receiving in earmarks from a $410 billion 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.
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.
The article doesn't lie, but it does misrepresent the percentage. It is more than one out of five (20%) of the total, but it's more like 26%. Over one fourth, not one fifth.
Rush joked about the "Kennedy Memorial Healthcare Bill". Perhaps that wasn't grand enough in scope. Maybe they should just rename the state after Kennedy. Call it the Edward M. Kennedy Memorial Commonwealth. The new motto could be: The commoners will never get his wealth!
I don't wish the man an earlier demise than the one the Good Lord intended, but this ridiculous. Don't we have better things to spend our treasure on?
VW
We're waiting to hear from Mary Jo Kopechne on what she thinks of the great Senator.
Teddy Kennedy is a Masterpiece of Depravity.
Posted by: BobF | Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 05:55
Obama: "NO EARMARKS."
Well, okay, maybe a few billion. . .
BZ
Posted by: Bloviating Zeppelin | Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 07:21
Kennedy Legacy.
Old Joe bought off more politicians than obambozo has.
JFK was banging Marilyn Monroe just down the hall from Jackie.
RFK was nepotism at it's best.
Fat drunken Ted killed that girl just as if he had put a gun to her head.
RFK Junior is a tree hugging idiot.
Then all the cousins and such with drug, alchohol and rape/murder problems.
Some legacy.
Posted by: Glenn Cassel AMH1(AW) USN RET | Thursday, March 12, 2009 at 22:11