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Can Congress Be Embarrassed into Ending Wasteful Pork-Barrel Spending?
The Heritage Foundation ^
| March 15, 2002
| Ronald D. Utt, Ph.D., and Christopher B. Summers
Posted on 03/18/2002 1:26:50 PM PST by Blackyce
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posted on
03/18/2002 1:26:50 PM PST
by
Blackyce
To: Blackyce
No.
To: TexasNative2000
No is right - they're rewarded (re-elected) for bringing home the pork. Why should Georgia, Alabama, New York or any other state fund the "Big Dig" in Boston? Over 14 BILLION dollars of our money, for a project that could not possibly benefit anyone other than a Bostonian. That's PORK.
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posted on
03/18/2002 1:38:01 PM PST
by
4CJ
To: 4ConservativeJustices
DEFUND---THEN REFUND
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posted on
03/18/2002 1:55:57 PM PST
by
Ff--150
To: Blackyce
Unfortunately, no. They are beyond shame. They are also hypocritical and arrogant enough to think that the American people are stupid. John Edwards (D-NC) commented last week on Fox News Sunday that he didn't think the majority of the American people even knew who Judge Pickering is.
Of course, when you hear some of the man-in-the-street interviews that Jay Leno does, it's a little easier to understand how the Congresscretins get away with what they do.
To: Blackyce
Can Congress Be Embarrassed into Ending Wasteful Pork-Barrel Spending? Democrats aren't embaressed by supporting rapists and murderers in Congress and the excutive .... you think shame is going to factor into their lives and actions ? Nope.
To: *Gov_Watch
index bump
To: Blackyce
If it were possible to embarrass those clowns, they wouldn't show their faces again for the rest of their lives.
To: Savage Beast
They'd be wearing bags over their heads right now.
To: Savage Beast
Just like States, the US Congress knows no shame on pork.
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posted on
03/18/2002 3:01:07 PM PST
by
GailA
To: Blackyce
This has been done before. Remember Senator William Proxmire, D-Wisconsin in the 1970's with his Golden Fleece Awards? It didn't work then and it won't work now.
A tattoo removal program in San Luis Obispo County, California ($50,000);
Oh thank you, thank you, thank you Congresswoman Capps. Now go back to Santa Barbara and leave us alone.
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posted on
03/18/2002 3:02:24 PM PST
by
altair
To: Inspectorette
John Edwards (D-NC) commented last week on Fox News Sunday that he didn't think the majority of the American people even knew who Judge Pickering is.The sad thing is that he is probably right.
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posted on
03/18/2002 3:04:30 PM PST
by
altair
To: Blackyce
no
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posted on
03/18/2002 3:04:48 PM PST
by
lepton
To: Blackyce
You have to have a normal conscience to experience shame.
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posted on
03/18/2002 3:04:58 PM PST
by
wimpycat
To: Blackyce
Here's
the books:
HOUSE AUDIT REVEALS GROSS WASTE AND MISMANAGEMENT
$3,400,000,000,000(Trillion) of Taxpayers' Money Is Missing
The War On Waste - Rumsfeld Says 2.3 Trillion Dollars Are Missing
BUSH SPENDING BILL LARGEST EVER
George Bush's Big Government Adventure
Blowing The Budget - Bush's Budget Means More Spending, More Government - 20K Per Household
Jealous House Republicans Plan Prescription Drug Plan 60% Larger than Big Spending President Bush
Cooking The Books at Education
"The surest way to bust this economy is to increase the role and the size of the federal government."
George W. Bush - Source: Presidential debate, Boston MA Oct 3, 2000.
"Gore offers an old and tired approach. He offers a new federal spending program to nearly every voting bloc. He expands entitlements, without reforms to sustain them. 285 new or expanded programs, and $2 trillion more in new spending. Spending without discipline, spending without priorities, and spending without an end. Al Gores massive spending would mean slower growth and higher taxes. And it could mean an end to this nations prosperity."
George W. Bush Source: Speech in Minneapolis, Minnesota Nov 1, 2000.
Vast Criminal Conspiracy - The Congress
"The 535 men and women who make up the House and Senate of the United States include, at best, a collection of rogues, con artists, scofflaws and bad check artists. At worst, they comprise, as Twain once observed, a distinct criminal class."
To: GailA
the US Congress knows no shame on pork or anything else.
To: Blackyce
Can Congress Be Embarrassed into Ending Wasteful Pork-Barrel Spending?The only way Congress is ever going to end Pork Barrel Spending is if it ceases to exist.
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posted on
03/18/2002 5:20:46 PM PST
by
slimer
To: Uncle Bill
The new Congressional Seal should have a picture of Afred E. Neuman(sp) with his famous saying "What! Me Worry" and in fine print "Accounting by Arthur Andersin".
To: Donald Stone
To: Uncle Bill
I noticed some people were somewhat outraged by your headline and the disconnect between your article at that link !!!
LOL !!!!!!!
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