9000 earmarks. The spending bill that Congress is sending to President Obama has 9000 earmarks. At a time when our economy is staggering Legislators still can't stop loading up spending bills with pet projects. When our deficit and our national debt are the highest in history, our elected officials still show no restraint. During his campaign, Obama promised to curtail earmarks. But the White House says that they are going to sign the omnibus bill, which is a holdover from the Bush administration. But they hinted that Obama would veto future spending bills that were loaded with earmarks. Why wait? Why not veto this one? Why not send a message that Congress simply cannot wallow up to the hog trough...especially not now, while Rome is burning.
9000 earmarks...I am totally disgusted.
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I feel you Boss. it does seem that their is no end to the politicking. This is a interesting situation though, something that has been way under reported on the Omnibus is if the President sign it funding for the basic ongoing gov functions would have stopped at midnight yesterday so a veto wasn't the way to go with this. The congress should have stripped out the pork before sending it along
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