Posted on 03/23/2018 10:57:55 AM PDT by Elderberry
Always good to have spares...........just in case..............
So do they have to spend it or not?
Sadly, looks like it’s the newest spending bucket of crap.
Wonder whose state is building those monstrosities...
If they don’t spend it, they’ll get shorted in the next budget cycle.
Very disappointed that Trump did not veto this bill and make those congressional SOB go back and work it right. The only part of Trump’s agenda that was included in the bill was defense and according to this article there was more pork in that part than is necessary
pay off to Boeing..
Of course they will spend it! The money will be used to buy a couple dozen MILSPEC hammers or four dozen toilet seats.
If they do spend it, they might hear You’re Fired.
So whether they spend it depends on the law, on the need, on whether the agency head is in favor of downsizing or not and whether that agency head can convince Trump the money wasn’t wasted.
Don’t you know that those $400 hammers is really code for black ops and other secret stuff? That’s how they launder money to those activities.
Maybe $600M in ‘black projects’, maybe $600M in ‘pork’. What’s $600M in a $1.3 trillion budget that has not been read? After all, it’s only money! After all, you can’t take it with you! </sarc>
Pres. Trump not only indicated that the lion’s share weight of the Omnibus spending bill is Section 8-compliant, military-related spending, but he told Congress that he’s not going to sign any more bills like that.
Yes, Democrats won a few things with the bill. But Trump said that patriots won more than Dems did.
Black Ops Budget Place Holder....
More spending provisions such as this will be found as the full 2,000+ pages are digested.
Republicans never spend like this unless they are in charge of spending.
A lot of those dollars find their way back to Washington ending up in the pockets of Senators and Congressmen as thinly disguised campaign contributions.
Politicians don't care how much they extort from taxpayers as long as their personal balance sheets show increases at the end of the year.
President Trump says he wants to change the corrupt Deep State and I believe he does.
But the professional pols would bump him off before they let him dismantle their Pay-For-Play system.
oh look - hidden money for the wall ;)
I wish my family's budget worked that way.
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