Comments on: Let them eat pork, part 9,999: Senate at work

By: bobtundra

bobtundra — Wed, 11 Mar 2009 21:33:14 +0000

That picture is giving me nightmares.

By: Hall of Shame « Patriot Burr

Hall of Shame « Patriot Burr — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 20:49:26 +0000

[...] gallery-12 Democrats and 8 Republicans. The amount is the value of their earmarks in the $410 Billion Omnibus Spending Bill [...]

By: cabrerski

cabrerski — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:20:09 +0000

Do you really want to have nightmares?

Read this with the understanding of who authored the report:

http://www.gao.gov/financial/citizensguide2008.pdf

Please check out chart 2 on page 3. I will lie awake for many nights over this.

By: Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:15:04 +0000

On March 10th, 2009 at 10:10 am, lottadawg said:

Well said!

By: Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:13:55 +0000

On March 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am, lgm said:

Pork is about 1% of the budget. Cleaning it all out would barely change the bottom line. The heaviest anti-pork Republicans defend their share tooth and nail hoof and snout.

To summarize: the Republican anti-pork movement is like most Republican politics — Bull.

Wow! We finally agree on something!

By: cabrerski

cabrerski — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 15:02:06 +0000

On March 10th, 2009 at 9:57 am, lgm said:
Pork is about 1% of the budget.

Even if your numbers are correct, it still demonstrates the way Washington (both Dems and Reps) treat the rest of the country in budgetary matters.

The definition of pork is also subject to the interpetation of the beholder (note how Pelosi “swore” to Blitzer there was no pork in the stimulus package).

Many of these politicians hide pet projects in larger budgets or they refuse to cut waste in budget proposals (which is a much greater dollar amount).

That being said, the biggest crime by those in D.C. is constantly harping about deficit spending and never once mentioning the debt. Servicing our debt is the second largest expenditure in our budget. If we keep borrowing (or printing money) at the current rate, debt servicing will surpass Social Security.

By: lottadawg

lottadawg — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:10:06 +0000

I wish I had the writing skills of some in this blog. To be verbose at a high level is a talent I do so appreciate. I will take a stab at it.
Every day I wake up and either the President or Congress has done something that always amounts to kicking the crap out of my country and assailing my culture. Washing D.C. is so wrapped up in its own importance it doesn’t see anything else. It looks like daily systematic bleeding that will end in bankrupting , or giving away the country.
Mr. President, Congress. You pretty well suck!

By: happy2behere

happy2behere — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:08:27 +0000

APPROPRIATOR is an appropriate word.

By: chapoutier

chapoutier — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 14:00:50 +0000

Pork is about 1% of the budget. Cleaning it all out would barely change the bottom line.

True, lgm. But to be totally fair you should recognize that Pelosi and Reid absolutely rebuffed Obama when he said he wanted to go after the real budget drivers: entitlement spending. I do not think they are effective leaders.

By: chapoutier

chapoutier — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:58:30 +0000

#22 exactly right. this is why i pay 11k per year for a huge insurance policy. it’s one benefit i can leave to my grandson.

You can up that to $13,000 a year. $26,000 if you are married.

By: lgm

lgm — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:57:57 +0000

Pork is about 1% of the budget. Cleaning it all out would barely change the bottom line. The heaviest anti-pork Republicans defend their share ~~tooth and nail~~ hoof and snout.

To summarize: the Republican anti-pork movement is like most Republican politics — Bull.

By: cheapseat

cheapseat — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 13:48:33 +0000

#22 exactly right. this is why i pay 11k per year for a huge insurance policy. it’s one benefit i can leave to my grandson.

By: orlandocajun

orlandocajun — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 12:26:20 +0000

“Socialism fails when the government runs out of other people’s money”. The people of this country continue to send the same thieves to Washington. We have the government we deserve. I pray for my kids and their kids.

By: Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 06:01:11 +0000

On March 9th, 2009 at 10:34 pm, zyzzyg said:

What really bothers me are the Republicans who have pork in the bill that will vote against the entire bill.

Pull your pork and vote nay. Leave your pork in and vote yea. But don’t leave your pork in, and vote nay.

Can’t wait to see who the hypocites are

No argument from me. The Republicans are just as bad as the Democrats, and if not, they sure are trying…

By: Jet Jaguar

Jet Jaguar — Tue, 10 Mar 2009 05:58:37 +0000

I don’t understand. lgm said that there were no earmarks in this bill.