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Posted on 02/22/2009 7:47:40 AM PST by kellynla
Here we go again! House Republicans are bracing for another onslaught of out-of-control Democrat-authored spending as the omnibus bill is expected to hit the floor of the House as early as next week.
And it’ll be yet another spending bill House Republicans and the American people have not yet been allowed to see and the Democrats haven’t even bothered to read. As if the $1.2 trillion Democrats spent on “stimulus” last week wasn’t enough of a disaster, this colossal bill encompasses the remaining nine appropriations bills for fiscal year 2009 sloughed off by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi (D-Calif.).
House minority leader John Boehner (R-Ohio) called upon the Speaker Thursday to release the voluminous spending bill online without delay. “If Democratic leaders plan to schedule a vote on the half-trillion dollar omnibus spending bill next week, they should post the legislation online immediately so the American people have adequate time to read the measure and understand what is in it,” Boehner said. “My colleagues in the Republican leadership and I made this request two weeks ago, and to date, our request has gone unanswered. Time is running short, and American taxpayers deserve to know how their hard-earned tax dollars will be used under this legislation.”
Rep. Mike Pence (R-Ind.), the House Republican Conference chairman, joined Boehner in asking again - apparently in vain -- for an open process from the secretive Democrat leadership this time around. “More than two weeks ago, House Republicans called on Speaker Pelosi to post online the text of the upcoming half-trillion dollar ‘omnibus’ spending bill, bringing it out of the shadows and before the American people,”
(Excerpt) Read more at humanevents.com ...
We can count on House Repubs to fight. It’s the Senate Repub Rinos we have to watch out for.
Spending what? We are writing worthless vehicles.
Tea parties, people. TEA PARTIES!!!
WTF is up with these democrats spending my future away?
It is more about control. Spending is just the means to the end - control over your life. The less money you have, the fewer options you have outside of Gooberment.
In a word, yes.
I see it in our state legislature too.
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The ugly truth is most legilators never read these bills. They are written in legalize by lawyer staffers and the legislators rely on staffers to give them summaries that they can understand.
The US Government has become like an old abandoned colonial mansion, reclaimed by the jungle and overrun by a band of monkeys.
I’m convinced either people don’t care about this deprssion and refuse to play along or it’s simply over everyone’s head. My wife and I waited an hour for a table at Carraba’s last night. Apparently all those people eating out haven’t heard the bad news O keeps putting out.
Reading it, like the constitutionality of the spending no longer matters.
The house republicans can safely vote in lock step when they know it’ll pass without them. But they sure voted to spend billions when W asked for it. I have no respect for any of them.
they’ll only get it the day their credit cards all stop working, with no prior warning
They need more money for tha Acorn Army!
...and the band played on...
Time to buy more if what I call bad economic news, ETFs:
DOG = ETF that shorts the DOW
GLD/gold etf, SLV/silver etf, TIP/Treasurys with anticipation of inflation.
Very close to the truth.
I just read this on youtube - funny...
THE NATIONAL SYMBOL IS NOW A CONDOM:
“The government announced today that it is changing the national symbol to a condom because it more accurately reflects the governments political stance. A condom allows for inflation, halts production, destroys the next generation, protects a bunch of pricks and gives you a sense of security while you’re actually being screwed”.
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