Posted on 04/13/2002 12:22:08 AM PDT by kattracks
Edited on 07/12/2004 3:52:33 PM PDT by Jim Robinson. [history]
Taxpayers whose conversations with their accountants are already ending in volleys of profanity ("I owe what?") will reach for flamethrower vocabulary when they read the 2002 Congressional Pig Book released this week by Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW).
Recipients of federal funds on the fruited plain did just fine. Michiganders hoping to make growing improvements in their fruit practices received $239,000, while Alabamans wishing to know more about Satsuma Oranges (such as what they are) squeezed out $800,000. Montana's Sen. Conrad Burns bagged $400,000 for Montana's Sheep Institute (don't ask), and Iowa's Sen. Tom Harkin slopped the National Swine Research Center with $400,000 in funding for manure management research.
(Excerpt) Read more at washtimes.com ...
This in the face of fallen government revenues is more than just shameless, its down right criminal:
This is from the Google cache of CBO's Monthly Budget Review, earlier today:
RECEIPTS THROUGH FEBRUARY |
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October-February |
Percentage Change |
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Major Source | FY2001 | FY2002 | |||||
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Individual Income | 404 | 373 | -7.6 | ||||
Corporate Income | 59 | 63 | 6.2 | ||||
Social Insurance | 270 | 273 | 1.4 | ||||
Other | 59 | 57 | -3.1 | ||||
Total | 792 | 766 | -3.2 | ||||
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SOURCES: Department of the Treasury; CBO. | |||||||
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Total Federal receipts in the first five months of 2002 were lower than receipts in the same period last year by $25 billion, or 3.2 percent.
Let's just call them what they are: REPUBLICRATS or DEMICANs. Neither party cares about our Constitution or freedom, only about putting as many Federal Employee slaves on their plantations as possible. Yes massa, I jus luvs them handouts you gibs me to VOTE for you!!!
A government with an unlimited budget has an unlimited ability and tendency to spend. A government with restrictions will be more likely to spend wisely the money we give to it.
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