Posted on 02/24/2009 5:24:19 PM PST by Kaslin
Government Spending: Did anyone really think $787 billion would be enough to quench the Democratic Congress' thirst for play money from the taxpayers? Now they want $410 billion more.
To a family being foreclosed on, or a businesswoman forced by tough times to close up shop, this doesn't exactly signal that Uncle Sam is in solidarity with you.
The new spending bill is an 8% increase over last year and the largest discretionary spending increase since Jimmy Carter. President Bush refused to go along with what Congress was demanding for fiscal 2009, so now it has clumped the items previously denied into a $410 billion monster. The House of Representatives will vote on it this week, and the Senate is expected to follow soon after.
Amid the measure's sneaky fine print is a provision to ax Washington, D.C.'s innovative school choice program. House Minority Leader John Boehner, R-Ohio, called it "an irresponsible and shameful act on the part of the Democratic leadership in Congress, and the children of the District of Columbia deserve better."
Is it any wonder House Speaker Nancy Pelosi won't make spending legislation available online ahead of time so Americans can scrutinize it line by line?
(Excerpt) Read more at ibdeditorials.com ...
One month and four days into this.
Democrats are dog crap. It’s high time we shovel out the yard.
These kinds of statements drive me nuts. Really it should read...
"Obama administration sources say the U.S is also planning on BORROWING $900 million for Gaza that the US taxpayers will someday have to pay."
There is nothing to relieve from the US taxpayers. It's all borrowed money.
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