Earmarks! We can't live without them!

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Originally Posted by Riot

Tell that to your United States Senators, who wouldn't vote for the Senate bill until they got their pork. The House won't let them have it.

Reconciliation is also adding into the Senate bill (which basically doesn't do much by itself) cost containments.

You think you can get 'your people' in line?

this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.

Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

Sickening

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html