Earmarks! We can't live without them!

[dellinger63]

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

[dellinger63]

Exhibit A is the "omnibus" spending bill Harry Reid is trying to push through the Senate. This monstrosity contains about 6,500 earmarks -- special provisions inserted on behalf of lobbyists to benefit special interests. The lobbyists get big fees, the interest groups get handouts and the politicians get rewarded with contributions from both.

It's a win-win-win for everyone -- except the taxpayers who finance this carousel of corruption.

We seem to have a pattern going! And it really stinks!

http://www.nypost.com/p/news/opinion...V2YtrTaFqHowYM

Earmarks are destroying this country...not really but I have a flair for the DRAMATIC.

[randallscott35]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Earmarks are destroying this country...not really but I have a flair for the DRAMATIC.

A Rick Flair sighting

Originally Posted by randallscott35

A Rick Flair sighting

Whoooo!

I AM ANGRY RAWR! DAMN MONEY GOING TO BLACK KIDS!! GRRR. I WANT MY WHITE AMERICA BACK!! AND FIRING SQUADS!!!

Spent trillions in Iraq but heaven forbid a politician ask for $48 billion to improve the lives of people in the inner cities.

F.uck those people, right? You're in the suburbs so f.uck 'em. They can't get to you.

If you're against wasteful spending then how could you not be going ballistic on a daily basis over these two wars we're in?

You could add up every god-damned earmark in the history of mankind and they wouldn't put a dent in what we've spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

F.ucking priorities. Get yours straight. The republican party doesn't give a f.uck about you. And that goes for the libs on here. The democratic party doesn't care about you.

I hate this sub-forum.

[jms62]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Spent trillions in Iraq but heaven forbid a politician ask for $48 billion to improve the lives of people in the inner cities.

F.uck those people, right? You're in the suburbs so f.uck 'em. They can't get to you.

If you're against wasteful spending then how could you not be going ballistic on a daily basis over these two wars we're in?

You could add up every god-damned earmark in the history of mankind and they wouldn't put a dent in what we've spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

F.ucking priorities. Get yours straight. The republican party doesn't give a f.uck about you. And that goes for the libs on here. The democratic party doesn't care about you.
I hate this sub-forum.

Double


Republicans and Democratic constituents fighting like it means something while getting raped and pillaged by those that represent you. Didn't this only used to happen in Hati and other third world countries.

[dellinger63]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

F.ucking priorities. Get yours straight. The republican party doesn't give a f.uck about you. And that goes for the libs on here. The democratic party doesn't care about you..

I don't need or want care from them. I need them (both parties to stay the f.uck out of my life and wallet) Protecting the country should be their main focus.

I do believe there are enemies specifically muslim enemies who's everyday goal it is to wreak havoc on us. Hence killing them before being killed by them makes sense to me whatever that cost may be. But leaving the borders open and trying to welcome those who snuck in makes about as much sense as cooking dinner for someone while he robs your home.

[Riot]

Originally Posted by Coach Pants

Spent trillions in Iraq but heaven forbid a politician ask for $48 billion to improve the lives of people in the inner cities.

F.uck those people, right? You're in the suburbs so f.uck 'em. They can't get to you.

If you're against wasteful spending then how could you not be going ballistic on a daily basis over these two wars we're in?

You could add up every god-damned earmark in the history of mankind and they wouldn't put a dent in what we've spent in Iraq and Afghanistan.

F.ucking priorities. Get yours straight. The republican party doesn't give a f.uck about you. And that goes for the libs on here. The democratic party doesn't care about you.

I hate this sub-forum.

Dear gawd. I agree with Pillow Pants.

Except I love this sub-forum