Posted on 02/02/2009 11:14:58 AM PST by RushingWater
ObamaSpeak:
No Pork, just PorkEars...Oink!
“Can somebody help me out here? I don’t understand how this can be claimed? Isn’t the whole stimulus bill earmark after earmark?”
Earmarks are when a pet project is added at the behest of a specific Congressman for a specific recipient. This bill is a trillion dollar boondoggle where the original bill writeup has all the giveaways.
It’s still “pork”.
$100whateverittakes.00 to get rid of white republicans!
“...Daschle will observe all the ethical standards of the Obama Admin.”
Since there are no ethical standards, this isn’t a lie.
I suppose I am being dense, but is there some additional documentation as to how these figures were reached ie: Documentation for the research required to come to the specific dollar values associated with each... expenditure?
How about a goal set for the expected outcome for every single dollar of our money that is being spent.
Looking at the individual amounts, it looks to me as if the extraordinary amounts are just thrown together willy-nilly with no real thoughts or plans to administer, monitor and define the goals and expectations for each grant.
Maybe it’s just me, but if I were going to fund areas of a company in order to assure it’s solvency, I would make darn sure the money isn’t going to be wasted or appropriated for things that won’t help. I didn’t see any oversight expenses for this fiasco.
Or am I way off-base here?
“Another example of this is how they are saying they are giving tax cuts to people who never paid taxes.”
I really hate that. Even though I am one of those people.
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