Is Bush lying about Democrats spending $ 74 million on containers for peanuts ?

Question

I hope that's another lie !!!

Answer 1

No. But 74 million out of 130+ billion is 1/20th of 1%. Even adding in all the grants for education, farm subsidies, disaster relief and all the other spending that actually benefits Americans directly, the total expenditure is still 95% military.

And every major funding bill in the past several decades has contained special interest earmarks like this. Look them up. The only reason this one is getting attention is its importance.

And Bush vowed to veto this bill on principle, long before any of these subsidies and earmarks were added. So, claiming his decision is based on spending that takes up less than 5% of the total bill is just flat out a lie.

Answer 2

It's tied into a farm subsidy bill that was signed into law in 2002. In other words the current congress was allocating funds for a commitment made by an earlier congress. The money is for storage of the peanut crop which is used as collateral for government loans made to peanut farmers.
I guess when you know all the facts it not such a good dig at the Dem's after all.

Answer 3

nope no lie on that one. here's another little sample. I'm still looking for the complete list.
The $100 million for the political party conventions — $50 million for the Democratic convention in Denver and $50 million for the Republican convention in St. Paul, Minn. — is included in a section described as “Katrina recovery, veterans’ care and for other purposes.”
$25 million for spinach growers;
$100 million for citrus growers;
$25 million for livestock farmers;
$74 million for peanut storage; and
$283 million in milk subsidies.
$120 million for the shrimp and menhaden fishing industries;
$60 million for fisheries;
$35 million for NASA;
$5 million for those engaged in "breeding, rearing, or transporting live fish" ;
$6.4 million for additional salaries and expenses for the House of Representatives; and
$16 million for additional office space for the House of Representatives.

Answer 4

If his lips were moving when he said it chances are it is a lie. The congress always tacks on amendments when they want to bring home the pork for their district, I don't know why all of a sudden he is worried about it now. He wasn't concerned when the repuglicans tacked on a couple of bridges to no where in Alaska, a red state

Answer 5

You should research more. Sometimes you will find a perfect explanation for such simple things. What it seems like that in order to get more than 100 billion dollars he is picking up 300 million yearmarks. If you look at them most of them have good reasoning. Plus these yearmarks are only .02percent of his 100 billion.

Answer 6

no he is not lying. Contrary to what a lot of Libs believe Bush doesnt lie about everything and he is also not the cause of everything bad in the world.

Answer 7

I CANNOT BELIEVE BUSH WOULD EVEN PUT THIS OUT THERE!!! THE NERVE!!! PEANUT CONTAINERS!!! COME ON THIS IS NOTHING COMPARED TO THE WAR HE HAS PUT US IN AND ALL THE LIES HE USED TO GET US IN THE WAR!!!! THIS GUY IS SOMETHING ELSE....TALK ABOUT MISDIRECTION!!! BUSH WILL SAY WHAT HE WILL BUT NO MATTER WHAT MR.BUSH SAYS WE THE PEOPLE ARE NOT GOING TO FORGET THIS TERRIBLE MESS HE PUT US IN!!! NOT TO MENTION ALL THE SCANDALS GOING ON WITH HIS ADMINISTRATION!!! AM I THE ONLY ONE THAT CAN SEE THE MISDIRECTION THAT MAN IS DOING?!?!?THE NERVE...THE NERVE!!!!!! OK I'M DONE.

Answer 8

Damn, there you go again. Another liberal lie about bush. It seems that the nickname lieberal is well warranted.

Answer 9

The war isn't the only thing going on. Bush is overseeing the rise of a whole generation who have forgotten about all else. The President has no interest in agriculture, so he ridicules it.

Answer 10

Nope. He is not lying. They did.