An update

Well it's been a while since I last blogged. I've become very busy at work. Around the same time I was applying for a new job a week or two ago, I got a new assignment at my current job which is keeping me very busy (which I guess is good), and also where I'm learning some new skills. I'm still not too keen on working in cubeville, but I guess it'll have to do for now.

In the meantime, I've been keeping myself busy with other stuff. I'm watching Office Space right now, and it's again reminded me why I hate working in a big office with cubicles.



Moving on...

For those of you who wonder what's wrong with our goverment, here are some facts I learned today.

• Since the invasion of Iraq, the US govt has allocated $19 billion for reconstruction and other projects (in Iraq), although much of it has yet to be spent. This is more than the combined annual budgets for the National Cancer Institute, Amtrak, the Low Income Home Energy Assistance Program, Federal Air Marshals, operation of the National Park Service, Homeless Assistance Grants, the Superfund Hazardous Substance Cleanup, Home-Delivered Meals to the the Elderly and youth employment and training programs here in our own country.
  
  
• The govt spent more than $40 million for the Whitewater and Monica Lewinsky investigations, but only $15 million for the 9/11 commission to examine the terrorists attacks of Sept 11.
  
  
• The Office of Nuclear Energy, Science and Technology has a budget of $503 million. It will cost $7.3 billion this year to continue the cleanp of radioactive waste from nuclear-weapons production and $6.6 billion a year to maintain our nuclear warheads. The Solar Energy Technology Program gets a mere $85 million and $41 million goes for Wind Energy Technology.
  

Those are just a few disturbing facts about our US Government and how they spend money. If the stats look familiar, it's because they are from the weekly Parade Section of the Sunday paper.