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Obama's New Spending Bill Has 9,000 Earmarks
WASHINGTON During the 2008 presidential campaign, candidates Barack Obama and John McCain fought vigorously over who would be toughest on congressional earmarks.
"We need earmark reform," Obama said in September during a presidential debate in Oxford, Miss. "And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
President Barack Obama should prepare to carve out a lot of free time and keep the coffee hot this week as Congress prepares to unveil a $410 billion omnibus spending bill that's riddled with thousands of earmarks, despite his calls for restraint and efforts on Capitol Hill to curtail the practice.
The bill will contain about 9,000 earmarks totaling $5 billion, congressional officials say. Many of the earmarks loosely defined as local projects inserted by members of Congress were inserted last year as the spending bills worked their way through various committees.
Newsmax.com - Obama's New Spending Bill Has 9,000 Earmarks
So much for restraint. You would think that the stimulus bill would have everything they needed and the cost will drive up taxes on everyone.
Now we have a new bill that will expand costs even further.
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02-23-2009, 06:02 PM
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Only 9,000!! I expected better from this bunch of over achievers. I'm warming up the emails even as I type, for all the good it'll do.
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02-23-2009, 06:21 PM
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02-24-2009, 03:19 AM
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Obama has lied many times , whether it be earmarks, lobbyists, rendition program, abortion, you name it. Obama either lies, or changes his policies to benefit his election power.
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02-24-2009, 10:53 AM
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So who expected Obama to be honest about anything?
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02-24-2009, 11:47 AM
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IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!!!!!
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02-24-2009, 12:46 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by tperkins2009
Only 9,000!! I expected better from this bunch of over achievers. I'm warming up the emails even as I type, for all the good it'll do.
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You would think that democrats got all the pork already put in the stimulus bill but here they are a month in and they are trying to double the deficit that they were so against under Bush.
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02-24-2009, 12:51 PM
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Quote:
Originally Posted by Susanna
So who expected Obama to be honest about anything?
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As I read on another blog "Obama has an expiration date on what he says then he rewrites what he said".
Unlike President Bush seems not to have solid convictions except to grow government and pander to radicals.
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02-24-2009, 01:27 PM
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Originally Posted by samspade
You would think that democrats got all the pork already put in the stimulus bill but here they are a month in and they are trying to double the deficit that they were so against under Bush.
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It's all about Power.
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02-24-2009, 05:58 PM
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Hill staffer Tom Jones is going through the omnibus spending bill with a fine-tooth comb, and Twittering his earmark findings, including:
* $200,000 for Tattoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Program, pg. 283;
* Maine lobster earmark in the omnibus, pg. 173;
*$5.8 million earmark for the Ted Kennedy Institute for the Senate
for the planning and design of a building & an endowment, pg. 232;
*and National Council of La Raza, $473,000 earmark from Sens. Bingaman and Menendez, pg. 212.
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