7.7 billion in earmarks in 410 billion dollar budget, a huge chuck of them to infrastructure and water projects. None of the rest of the budget is being questioned.
62% of all earmarks in the 2008 budget went to military projects 17% to corp of engineers projects. less than 7% to social programs. Earmarks, like socialism, had become another buzzword used by those driven from office because of their greed and incompetence. Not a single one of them could tell you the truth about the spending bills. It's all spin and misinformation. On Sun, Mar 8, 2009 at 12:51 PM, Judah McAuley <[email protected]> wrote: > > I don't get this view at all. You're saying that when he stated a > general principal of earmark reform that he should have explicitly > said "in budgets that I negotiate on"? I figured that that was rather > implied. This isn't his budget. He has presented his budget and is > going into negotiations with Congress over it. If he doesn't follow > through, by all means, call him out on it. Would you like him to veto > the omnibus bill and spend weeks or months renegotiating a spending > bill that only is in place for a couple months instead of working on > the next budget and health care reform, etc? ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:291013 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=89.70.5
