Pork in the stimulus bill - not creating jobs!

Here's a partial list of the crap the demoncrats have loaded the stimulus bill with:

Items in the House bill that have a Republican bull's-eye on them include:
$335 million for education related to sexually transmitted diseases
$650 million for coupons to help people make the switch to digital TV
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts
$150 million for the Smithsonian Institution
$50 million for the National Cemetery Administration's monument and memorial repairs
$800 million for Amtrak, the country's railroad system
$2 billion for child-care subsidies
$400 million for global warming research
$100 million for reducing the danger of lead paint in homes
$2.4 billion for carbon-capture demonstration projects
$50 million for NASA facilities that may have been harmed by natural disaster
$200 million for the U.S. Geological Survey to monitor earthquakes and volcanoes
$650 million for the U.S. Forest Service to remove fish passage barriers, forest improvement and watershed enhancement projects
$1.5 million for a National Institute of Health/Institute of Medicine report to Congress
$400 million for the Social Security Administration's new National Computer Center
$325 million for Academic Achievement Awards
In the Senate version, there are additional servings of what conservatives term pork that won't generate new jobs, including:
$70 million for programs to help people quit smoking
$75 million for a super-computer for the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration

If you look at one of my posts below on WtE, you can see that this pork barbeque could build power plants to convert Municipal Solid Waste to electricity and/or gas and/or desalinate water. Tens of thousands of people would be employed to build the plants. Tens of thousands of people would be employed producing and transporting the materials that would be needed to build these plants. Many thousands of people would be employed for decades operating and maintaining the plants.

Here's a novel thought - have the plants built and operated by the TVA (they don't have to be in the southeast), so the government earns back the money spent to build them! Imagine that - a simple solution that pays for itself, increases permanent employment and generates green energy!