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Politics : Impeach George W. Bush -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: jlallen who wrote (24096)	12/22/2003 5:19:11 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

The system changed....when did it change? The system didn't change...the people running the system changed....when the GOP took control of the earmarks. jttmab

To: jlallen who wrote (24096)	12/22/2003 5:32:18 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill, which accounts for one-third of discretionary non-defense spending, was long considered off limits to pork projects. With Republicans in power, that bill is now bursting at the seams with wasteful earmarks. In fiscal year 2003, there were 1,857 separate earmarks in the bill for a total of $896 million — nearly a billion dollars of pork in one bill alone. Do you get that...when the Democrats had control there were no earmarks in the Labor-HHS-Education appropriations bill....none, zero, nada.....now that the Republicans have control...there are 1,857 earmarks. jttmab

To: jlallen who wrote (24096)	12/22/2003 5:38:14 PM
From: jttmab	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 93284

"The Republican party is simply not interested in small government now," says Brian Riedl, a budget analyst at the Heritage Foundation, a conservative think tank. "They're worse than the Democrats they replaced." Thank goodness Riedl is a conservative, a liberal wouldn't take it so easy... csmonitor.com