Semper Fi Act of 2008

Senators Introduce Semper Fi Act of 2008

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Last week, the City Council of Berkeley voted to oust Marine Corps recruiters from their downtown office, saying the Marines were “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” Berkeley officials also voted to give the radical protest group Code Pink space outside the recruitment office and urged them to “impede, passively or actively” the work of Marine Corps recruiters.

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.

Emphasis me.

While I applaud the Senators involved in this action, I have to ask: Why the hell do Berkeley kids need gourmet organic lunches? Why can't they have chili mac and tacos like everybody else?

I guess it's only two Americas/class warfare when private companies do crap like this. No problem when it's my tax dollars. Elitist bastards.

On the other hand, when is 3.5 billion not enough?