So much for campaign promises personal accountability and a new era of change."
On Tuesday March 3rd a new 1200 page $410 billion spending bill went for debate before the United States Senate. Included with the bill are an additional 1200 pages of the appropriation management team" report.
During the Presidential debates we heard a pledge to eliminate" earmarks and pork barrel" spending.
I guess it all depends on your definition of the word eliminate."
Included in the new budget and the management team report are earmarks. There are not just four or five earmarks. There are not just forty of fifty earmarks.
This 2009 spending bill contains almost nine thousand brand new earmarks.
Senator John McCain (R Arizona) led a valiant attempt to strip out these earmarks.
How does anyone justify some of these earmarks: $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa; $2 million for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii; $6.6 million for termite research in New Orleans; $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York McCain stated in a Fox News article.
Fox News continued: He (McCain) also noted the legislation includes 14 earmarks requested by lawmakers for projects sought by PMA Group a lobbying company at the center of a federal corruption investigation"
McCains Senate colleagues apparently ushering a new era of change" voted against him 63-32.
It seems the more things are supposed to change the more they stay exactly the same.
The next edition of Websters will have to define eliminate" as some algebraic expression meaning less than or equal to 9000."
And by the way the White House is terming this $410 billion spending bill and 9000 new earmarks as simply leftover business from 2008."
Nine thousand new earmarks passed by a 62-33 Senate vote right in front of the faces of the American families and right in front of our children and grandchildren who will get the bill.
Is anyone else upset? Is anyone else outraged? The U.S. House and Senate elections of 2010 cannot come fast enough.
Ken Mercer is a citizen of the United States of America and a taxpayer. Mercer is also a former Texas State Representative and an elected Member of the Texas State Board of Education.
So much for campaign promises personal accountability and a new era of change."
On Tuesday March 3rd a new 1200 page $410 billion spending bill went for debate before the United States Senate. Included with the bill are an additional 1200 pages of the appropriation management team" report.
During the Presidential debates we heard a pledge to eliminate" earmarks and pork barrel" spending.
I guess it all depends on your definition of the word eliminate."
Included in the new budget and the management team report are earmarks. There are not just four or five earmarks. There are not just forty of fifty earmarks.
This 2009 spending bill contains almost nine thousand brand new earmarks.
Senator John McCain (R Arizona) led a valiant attempt to strip out these earmarks.
How does anyone justify some of these earmarks: $1.7 million for pig odor research in Iowa; $2 million for the promotion of astronomy in Hawaii; $6.6 million for termite research in New Orleans; $2.1 million for the Center for Grape Genetics in New York McCain stated in a Fox News article.
Fox News continued: He (McCain) also noted the legislation includes 14 earmarks requested by lawmakers for projects sought by PMA Group a lobbying company at the center of a federal corruption investigation"
McCains Senate colleagues apparently ushering a new era of change" voted against him 63-32.
It seems the more things are supposed to change the more they stay exactly the same.
The next edition of Websters will have to define eliminate" as some algebraic expression meaning less than or equal to 9000."
And by the way the White House is terming this $410 billion spending bill and 9000 new earmarks as simply leftover business from 2008."
Nine thousand new earmarks passed by a 62-33 Senate vote right in front of the faces of the American families and right in front of our children and grandchildren who will get the bill.
Is anyone else upset? Is anyone else outraged? The U.S. House and Senate elections of 2010 cannot come fast enough.
Ken Mercer is a citizen of the United States of America and a taxpayer. Mercer is also a former Texas State Representative and an elected Member of the Texas State Board of Education.
