House Democrats propose $410B spending bill

Yahoo/AP ^ | Tuesday February 24, 2009, 8:50 am EST | David Espo

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

WASHINGTON (AP) -- House Democrats unveiled a $410 billion spending bill on Monday to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year, setting up the second political struggle over federal funds in less than a month with Republicans.

The measure includes thousands of earmarks, the pet projects favored by lawmakers but often criticized by the public in opinion polls. There was no official total of the bill's earmarks, which accounted for at least $3.8 billion.

The legislation, which includes an increase of roughly 8 percent over spending in the last fiscal year, is expected to clear the House later in the week.

Democrats defended the spending increases, saying they were needed to make up for cuts enacted in recent years or proposed a year ago by then-President George W. Bush in health, education, energy and other programs.

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

This reminds me of a quote from Lady Thatcher, "The problem with socialism is that eventually you run out of other people's money."

Nancy "Porkmeister" Pelosi can go get bent. give her a call: (202) 225-4965

[Big Guy and Rusty 99]

I called queen nancy’s office and they insisted that there was no pork in this bill when I started talking about what the bill contained he switched me to the comment line.

call now, call often.

[Psalm 73]

Hey - compared to a trillion, it sounds like a bargain!
(Like the old Damon Wayans skit: "Mo' money, mo' money, mo' money!!")

[silverleaf]

the democrats should be “defensive”

I believ the statutory debt limit (just recently raised...again) is $11.3 trillion and as of today we are only $500 Billion below that. Perhaps hence the %410Billion dollar new pork bill

[jwparkerjr]

Remember, this bill, by law, was supposed to be done by Oct. 31st of LAST YEAR! This bill is last year's work and the Democrat-led Congress is just now getting around to passing it. Last year, for the first time ever I think, Congress failed to pass a single appropriations bill on time and had to use continuing resolutions to keep government running. Let that sink in, not a single appropriations bill was passed as required by law under a Democrat-led Congress.

It's just one more indication of how totally inept the Party is and how unprepared and unable they are to lead.

[KC_Conspirator]

WTF? And you folks did not think it could get any worse with democrats in office?

[chainsaw]

Let them take the budget out of the porkulus bill. We have spent enough for this year.

Reduce budgets and cut spending.

[Sarajevo]

Another spending bill? Nazi Pile-o-she-ite (Nancy Pelosi) needs to go away.

[the_devils_advocate_666]

A billion trillion here, a billion trillion there, and pretty soon you're talking real money!

[I Hate Obama]

They are so full of pelosi. It’s all a bunch of pelosi.

[Vaduz]

That is the problem they didn’t THINK.