Posted on 03/10/2022 8:26:21 AM PST by ConservativeInPA
After an 11-year drought, congressional earmarks are back with vengeance.
The $1.5 trillion, 2,741-page omnibus spending package is loaded with funding for lawmaker pet projects, some of which could help incumbents in this fall’s elections.
The legislation includes more than 4,000 earmarks, according to a list of projects provided to The Hill by a Senate Republican aide that spanned 367 pages.
“There’s been a decade of pent-up desire to get back to earmarks and you’re seeing some of that come to fruition, particularly those people who were writing the appropriations bills, dealing with all of those type of issues and then not getting the gravy they certainly did earlier in their career,” said Steve Ellis, president of Taxpayers for Common Sense, a nonpartisan group that tracks federal spending.
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There has need nearly zero coverage of the Omnibus Spending Bill due to non-stop war porn. They don't want you to know what is really destroying America. It is intentional.
Yup. And people wonder why the dollar stinks.
Out of control spending, it’s the only kosher pork….
I think 24 GOPe’ers voted for this crap; they and the demonKKKrats should all be stood against a stone wall, and...
SPJNK.
Dems know they won’t have both houses next year, so they have to graft and grift while they can, and they know the MSM will keep the public busy watching gas prices rise and maternity hospitals bombed to care about earmarks.
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At this point we are only rearranging the deck chairs on the Titanic.
This is a perfect example of how war porn is used to ignore other things occurring in America - like spending ourselves into the poor house. When I saw the hospital story on the news, it was accompanied by the so-called fact that it was the 18th hospital in Ukraine bombed in the past two weeks. Funny how they were not reported. I went searching, day by day, for the past two weeks on that internet search engine thingy. The media must be saying up their stories, because I didn't find 18 hospitals bombed being reported. I don't trust or believe the Biden Administration, the Pentagon or the media. They just make crap up. It is non stop lies.
Not only is it Pork, it is money-laundering for the Corruptocrats in DC...you know, with inflation, everything is more expensive...
If it wasn’t obvious before it should be now...
These politicians could care less about the American people...
Hopefully people are starting to wake up and see exactly what is going on in Washington...
All of these politicians are a pox upon humanity. Cicero was absolutely right about them.
Our nation is finished. Unless, our military is willing to jump ship and lock the entire DC corrupt crew up. No other way IMHO.
Our nation is finished. Unless, our military is willing to jump ship and lock the entire DC corrupt crew up. No other way IMHO.
And give those traitors show trials.
Don’t look at me.
While I support Ukraine over Russia, but ZERO US involvement in the fighting...
... I have instead been a supporter of the idea that any FIGHTING that needs to be done needs to be done HERE. Against exactly this kind of sh*t from our own Government.
Our governance at every level from coast to coast stinks. It violates EVERY principle our Country was founded upon. From LA to New York. From city planners to the US Congress. Corrupt to the core.
Lawmakers on both sides of the aisle are scrambling to figure out what’s in the bill.
Um just the same old gig.
....on the other hand.....I am sure a LOT of Americans know what is going on but are not all that upset about it...I believe some time ago, a talking-mouth for the maker of the as-yet-to-fulfill-its-expectations F-35 boasted that parts for that aircraft are made in some 48 of America’s states...the politicians spread the pork around...it’s been going for many, many decades.....
If they aren't aware now, they never will be. What recourse is there when the voting booth is now corrupt? Voting won't work. Things were previously on the right track so they took away our vote.
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