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Friday, February 13, 2009
What Are They Hiding?
The libs promised 48 hours of read time on the spendulus bill before a vote was to take place. That in itself is not enough time as the final package grew like the fat sow it is to over 1,000 pages. The package was finally put online last night at 11 pm and a vote is to take place this morning. My math is not the best, but that does not seem like 2 days to me. On top of that, the porkapalooza bill was not published in keyword text, instead it was converted to pdf files so that the average Joe could not search for it. Now Obama was quoted as saying this bill contained no pork and no projects aimed at special interests. He has claimed that his administration would be transparent. It all begs the question, what are they trying to hide? What is about to be rammed down out throats? Transparency, openness? When pigs fly...and the only pork in D.C. is in the back pages of socialists spending bill.
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Daniel:
I think the politicos are confused to NO msall degree.
They SAY there's NO PORK in this "plan"...
But I see TONS of BACON...AND HAM.
And if it LOOKS like a pig, and SOUNDS like a pig, and TASTES like a pig...
right?
B.G.
It's a daggone stinkin hog!
Just curious...How can you claim to not know what's in the plan while simultaneously bashing its contents?
Jeff, I bash it base on what we do know. A majority of the money is long term spending, not short term cash infusion. There are pet projects in this package that we were assured there would not be. Mainly, we were promised 48 hours to read it and only had about 10 and that is if you could find it anywhere to read it.
What pet projects? A lot of what's been defined as pork is anything but.
$75 million for smoking cessation programs, $8 billion for light rail between Southern California and Vegas which was originally $2 billion, $2 billion for a yet to be named clean power plant, $800 million for carbon capture projects...just to name a few. Some of these projects MIGHT be worthwhile, but they are not stimulative.
Daniel:
While they aded that $75 MIL for smoking cessation, they're ALSO adding about a $6 a carton TAX in the next several weeks...
Isn't that a tad counterproductive, or is that PART of "the master plan"?
Adding money to add more money?
Something doesn't add up here.
They will get everyone to stop smoking and then complain because they lost tax revenue. What a joke...
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