More Federal Money for R. Blake Curd to Send Back

R. Blake Curd and his fellow GOP/Tea Partiers need to add the following Uncle Sam programs to their list of filthy money we should send back to Washignton:

• Poet/Broin Ethanol is using $100 million in hand-outs from the U.S. Department of Energy to figure out how to turn corn cobs into cellulosic ethanol.
• SD School of Mines is hoping to get $1 million from the defense spending bill to research using biofuels for military planes. (Senator Thune, of course, is totally in favor of this program, which is just the tip of the Pentagon pork-berg the good Senator is promoting for South Dakota's interests.)
• South Dakota is getting $750K from Uncle Sam to help juvenile offenders straighten up and stay out of jail.
  
• Six South Dakota towns are getting $715K to build or at least mark safer walking and biking paths to schools.
• Update: The Intertribal Bison Cooperative is getting $175K from the USDA to develop farm market stores and promote local food.
  

Surely we can count on Curd, Nelson, Munsterman, et al. to denounce every one of these oppressive federal programs. Surely.