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Posted by: bubba2 1 year, 9 months agoIn 2006, Congress allocated a record $72 billion to 15,832 special projects. In 2005, Congress inserted 15,877 pork projects into spending bills. In his weekend radio address, Bush called on Congress to reform the earmarking process. Bush may say he's against pork, but in his 6 years as President, he has never once vetoed any pork-laden spending bi
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I'm pretty much OUTTA here! The new format (still) S-U-C-K-S!
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spkguy
Dec. 19, 2006, 1:05 a.m."31,709 Earmarks Later, Bush Decides Pork Is A Problem"
If it was not for this war, the real conservative Republicans
would be screaming at this President.
Just think about what Ronald Regan would say about this!
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You, Sir, Are No Ronald Reagan
Back in 1987, when Mr. Reagan applied his veto to what was generally known at the time as the highway and mass transit bill, he was offended by the 152 earmarks for pet projects favored by members of Congress. But on Wednesday Mr. Bush signed a transportation bill containing no fewer than 6,371 earmarks. Each one of these, as Mr. Reagan understood but Mr. Bush apparently doesn't, amounts to a conscious decision to waste taxpayers' dollars. One point of an earmark is to direct money to a project that would not receive money as a result of rational judgments based on cost-benefit analyses.
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spkguy
Dec. 19, 2006, 1:05 a.m.Mr. Bush, who had threatened to veto wasteful spending bills, chose instead to cave in. He did so despite the fact that in addition to a record number of earmarks the transportation bill came with a price tag that he had once called unacceptable. The bill has a declared cost of $286 billion over five years plus a concealed cost of a further $9 billion; Mr. Bush had earlier drawn a line in the sand at $256 billion, then drawn another line at $284 billion. Asked to explain the president's capitulation, a White House spokesman pleaded that at least this law would be less costly than the 2003 Medicare reform. This is a classic case of defining deviancy down.
August 15, 2005 in Bush the Man
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jordan11
Dec. 19, 2006, 8:57 p.m.In his weekend radio address, Bush called on Congress to reform the earmarking process. >>>>>
LMAO!!! After 12 years of the bulk of 'pork', paid for by the liberal states, going to conservative states....liberals are DUE theirs! George is a jerk. And I mean that in the kindest possible way.
Seriously though, he knows how 'pork' got his pals reelected year after year, and he doesn't want democrats to have the same leverage. Pure and simple, bushy boy is trying to put democrats at a decided disadvantage, politically, and I've no doubt will refuse to sign bills that would make their constituents 'happy'. (Even though those rich liberal states have made CONS constituents happy LO these many years.)
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Slave2Govt
June 17, 2007, 2:17 a.m.After ALL,,,,,, we're going to need all the money we can hoard to go bomb Iran!!!!
Don't forget - Little Hitler and ChiChingey DO have a little over another year to still lower the state of America.
And now that Lieberman apparently must own huge stock in HitlerBurton to share in the take, he has already instilled the thoughts to provoke action against yet another "Security threat to America" in DumDuhYuh's normally vacuum of a brain...
So now they are considering trying to force private citizens in small power boats to have positive ID and even demand electronic locators onboard when they cannot even check absolutely every cargo ship that comes into a port? Who's "pork" is going to pay for THAT??????
I want some of what THESE guys are on, please???
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