Is this what we are looking for in our leaders?
Critics say Mr. Murtha, 75, is squandering taxpayer money, giving away federal dollars to handpicked businesses and projects without competitive bids or independent oversight.
Are you dems complaining about Haliburten getting contracts without bids? Funny how you pick up on that but ignore one of your leaders that do it every day. What a bunch of hypocrites!
http://www.washingtontimes.com/article/20070905/NATION/109040070/1001
2007-09-06 05:18:05 · 15 answers · asked by Anonymous in Politics & Government ➔ Politics
Pink Angel - Did you not read the article? Murtha has given no bid contracts to people. How is that any different than Halliburton? Dollar value does not matter, it should have been a competitive bid. Halliburton is very specialized in what it does in the middle east and no other company provides the service. Therefore they get a no bid contract.
2007-09-07 01:41:55 · update #1
Power Corrupts, absolute power corrupts absolutely.
The People need to get him out of office. That is the only way to turn the trend of corruption. And Pork is corruption.
to al Cracka: Actually yes, Conservatives did complain, Pork and spending was the main reason Conservatives stayed ways from the election last year. We thought punishing the Republicans, unfortunately it failed seeing as the Democrats are worse and the media misintepreted our reasoning.
2007-09-06 05:23:41 · answer #1 · answered by Jon M 4 · 0⤊ 0⤋
John Murtha is a war hero and patriot. This is a bunch of propaganda.
I'm not a Democrat but I have a big problem with Halliburton getting $41 BILLION worth of NO BID military contracts in the middle east. When that gets straightened out, then we'll go after the war hero. You know, the guy that REALLY went to Vietnam, unlike our Great Leader?
2007-09-06 05:29:51 · answer #2 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
What senator does NOT have a appetitie for pork. Can't we get something else to pin on an individual? Every politician wrangles for pork for their districts.
There are degrees of this though.... is Murtha giving away "taxpayer money" as you say to "handpicked" businesses than it is as big as Cheney favors Halliburton (a company that he has stock in)? And who is profitting from these schemes? And how much?
Personally, I would go after the big guys before I went after the little guys. But yes, I agree with you that they are all greedy; Democrat and Republicans alike.
2007-09-06 05:26:47 · answer #3 · answered by cattledog 7 · 1⤊ 0⤋
The group Taxpayers for Common Sense (they were cited in your article) has said the following about the current congress:
"First, let’s give credit where credit is due: no Congress has ever provided the volume of information on earmarks that the House provided this year. The past four years, TCS had to dig through bills, committee reports, the Congressional record, and press releases to put together earmark databases. This year, however, we had an earmark analysis up before the final vote on almost every bill, aided by the charts and lists Congress provided under the new transparency rules."
This groups web site goes into detail about which members of congress, Democrat AND Republican are attempting to have money spent in their districts. I invite everyone to take a look at it.
2007-09-06 05:42:49 · answer #4 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
This is not a political party problem. This is a person problem. Usually a corrupt person problem. What Murtha is doing is no more "right' than the congress persons or the administration giving "no bid contracts". There is NO difference in your elected lawmakers. Replace all of them in the next election. This name calling war between dems & reps gets you,us, nowhere. In fact, those in control of our government love the petty sniping of the populus. it provides an aversion for their agenda.
2007-09-06 05:28:45 · answer #5 · answered by peepers98 4 · 1⤊ 0⤋
Murtha is simply abiding by rule #1 in the Democrat playbook. Pork is by far the most effective way of getting votes. The perfect example of this being the primary politcal strategy of the left is the lengthy career of the king of bringing home the bacon, Sen Byrd.
2007-09-06 05:24:44 · answer #6 · answered by Anonymous · 1⤊ 1⤋
the only reason Ted Steven's bridge to nowhere drew all that notoriety replaced into exposure. The media have been given ahold of the story and the country grew to become outraged. they may be slightly sluggish on the uptake, however the undeniable fact that ABC has picked it up shows that it will quickly develop into such as the Alaska bridge. I have little question that there are a number of comparable boondoggles accessible. however the often used public has no thank you to appreciate approximately them with out the media. And it has not something to do with partisanship, as much as you may decide for to have confidence that. somebody replaced into happy relating to the airport as long because it replaced right into a secret exterior of the community section, purely as they have been relating to the bridge. purely whilst outsiders locate out approximately beef does the outrage initiate.
2016-11-14 08:35:56 · answer #7 · answered by Anonymous · 0⤊ 0⤋
Business as usual. Until the American voters get tired enough of this to vote these people out of office, it will not change.
People who will not vote have no right to complain about anything that happens politically.
2007-09-06 05:23:18 · answer #8 · answered by Free To Be Me 6 · 3⤊ 0⤋
Congressmembers are elected by the people in their district. One of the best ways to get reelected is to bring federal dollars back home. Every congressmember who can does it. The best thing we can do is make sure they are all public so at least they can be debated instead of slipped in secretly.
2007-09-06 05:22:10 · answer #9 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋
Right back at you...the Republican Congress had plenty of pork too...didn't see you complaining then.
2007-09-06 05:22:50 · answer #10 · answered by Anonymous · 4⤊ 0⤋