Coastal-area residents are getting more federal funds than local officials expected from a massive spending bill that cleared Congress this week.
U-S Congressman Jack Kingston’s office was expecting $2.5 million for beach renourishment on Tybee Island. In a bill that passed the U-S House and Senate Tuesday, the figure was over $6 million.
The money will be used to get sand to the island’s eroding beach, a matter of business concern on the tourism-dependent island.
Likewise, the state usually gets a quarter-million for the Intra-Coastal Waterway. The final figure coming out of Washington is almost 4 times that much.
That money will be for dredging Georgia’s portion of the ever-silting Maine-to-Florida water route, a highway for boaters and commercial interests on the coast.
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a D-C based anti-pork barrel group, says there are about 9-thousand similar earmarks totaling 7-billion-dollars in the half-trillion-dollar bill.
U-S Congressman Jack Kingston’s office was expecting $2.5 million for beach renourishment on Tybee Island. In a bill that passed the U-S House and Senate Tuesday, the figure was over $6 million.
The money will be used to get sand to the island’s eroding beach, a matter of business concern on the tourism-dependent island.
Likewise, the state usually gets a quarter-million for the Intra-Coastal Waterway. The final figure coming out of Washington is almost 4 times that much.
That money will be for dredging Georgia’s portion of the ever-silting Maine-to-Florida water route, a highway for boaters and commercial interests on the coast.
Taxpayers for Common Sense, a D-C based anti-pork barrel group, says there are about 9-thousand similar earmarks totaling 7-billion-dollars in the half-trillion-dollar bill.
