As chronicled elsewhere, the City of Berkeley, California sees fit to hamper the efforts of the United States Marine Corps to recruit in their city, allowing Code Pink (yeah, those folks!) free rein over the area in front of the office. Now, there is a bill afoot in Congress which will, if enacted into Law, and if it survives the inevitable court challenge in the Ninth Circus Court of Appeals, take away Federal earmarks from the city.
Check out where some of the earmarked Taxpayer Dollars went to:
Whiskey Tango Foxtrot! And you know what? Just to piss off the Code Pinkers, I’d like to see the Entire Armed Forces set up shop there, not just the Marines!One earmark provides $243,000 in taxpayer dollars for the organization Chez Panisse to create gourmet organic school lunches in the Berkeley School District. Chez Panisse is dedicated to “environmental harmony” and their menu features “Comté cheese soufflé with mâche salad,” “Meyer lemon éclairs with huckleberry coulis,” and “Chicory salad with creamy anchovy vinaigrette and olive toast.”
Another earmark would spend $975,000 in taxpayer dollars for the University of California in Berkeley Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, to create a new endowment and cataloging the papers of Congressman Robert Matsui. U.C. Berkeley currently already has a $3.5 billion endowment.
