"I am disappointed in the way the Congress compiled this legislation, including abandoning the goal I set early this year to reduce the number and cost of earmarks by half," the president said in a statement. "Instead, the Congress dropped into the bill nearly 9,800 earmarks that total more than $10 billion. These projects are not funded through a merit-based process and provide a vehicle for wasteful government spending." - GWBush from yahoo.com
It's the war hawks blowing more cash on unwinnable wars, and the spendthrift Dems cashing in on a bill that must be signed to keep the war profiteer trough full. And We The People stuck paying for both. What do we get? We supposedly have 535 Congresspeople representing us. Can we finally agree they only represent big business and their crony friends and leave a vast majority of us out in the cold?
2007-12-26
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