The House of Representatives is due to vote on a bill that would grant $25 million to spinach farmers in California. The legislation would also appropriate $75 million for peanut storage in Georgia and $15 million to protect Louisiana rice fields from saltwater. More substantially, there is $120 million for shrimp and menhaden fishermen, $250 million for milk subsidies, $500 million for wildfire suppression and $1.3 billion to build levees in New Orleans.
Altogether the House Democratic leadership has come up with more than $20 billion in new spending, much of it wasteful subsidies to agriculture or pork barrel projects aimed at individual members of Congress. At the tail of all of this logrolling and political bribery lies this stinger: Representatives who support the bill -- for whatever reason -- will be voting to require that all U.S. combat troops leave Iraq by August 2008, regardless of what happens during the next 17 months.
2007-03-25 20:29:59 · 5 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
The democrats in congress don't want out of Iraq. I don't know where you got that crazy notion. It can't have been from the two months it took them to even address the issue, or for the having to buy votes to get a statistical tie on a bill that keeps us there until right before the next presidential election. Gee, wouldn't that be convenient: they screw it up right before the election so they have just enough time to blame President Bush.
2007-03-25 20:36:49 · answer #1 · answered by DOOM 7 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The money spent on these things you've mentioned, aside from being infinitely, overwhelmingly worthwhile, and unequivocally, in no way deemed "pork barrel" spending, is nothing more than minscule peanuts, compared to the vulgar, filthy, astronomical TRUE pork barrel spending that the present administration has spent on all of the endeavors that have proven to not only be pure pork barrel, but spent only to make their wealthy friends rich on the backs of American taxpayers, and veterans, thereby destoying the middle class.
2007-03-25 22:49:14 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
I dont think so.
They are really hate the war. The know that the way caused hundreds billion of dollars.
2007-03-25 20:35:19 · answer #3 · answered by 911 2 · 0⤊ 0⤋
The only way those gutless socialist democraps could pass any bill is to gut thousands of pigs and bag the pork and send it home to their constituents
2007-03-25 20:37:03 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 1⤋
no. the bush circus and GOP want to stay the course in Iraq merely to give no bid contracts to defense contractors, their top campiagn contributors.
2007-03-25 21:25:21 · answer #5 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋