Stimulus Checks to fund EMS????

Over at JEMS.com there is an article, "Stimulus to pay for emergency vehicles" which originally was printed in the Chattanooga Times Free Press (May 19).

In said article, it explains how Tennesses will get approx $4.5 MILLION for fire, police and rescue vehicles courtesey of the "Stimulus Package".....WHAT??

I for one, did not envision the Stimulus Package, errrrr, the American Reinvestment and Recovery Act to be used for this kind of spending. Never mind that I'm already highly irritated that my tax money is having to go to save corporate CEO's and middle/upper managers from loosing their jobs and a general re-organization of corporate USA for the "benefit" of all....AKA my "bailout" of America at MY expense.....now I'm funding the public sector in ANOTHER state?

This whole thing reeks of shades of the misappropriate and irresponsible spending of Homeland Security funds status post 9/11. See this article from 2005 that talks about amongst other things: New Jersey buying air-conditioned garbage trucks and Nebraska buying cattle prods and chutes...?????

Prime examples of wasteful government spending, often not directly related to the original intent of the grant.

-KMG-365