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Politics : PIG Roast. Putting Pork Barrel spending in it's place -- Ignore unavailable to you. Want to Upgrade?

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (20)	9/12/2007 4:53:55 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 26

Dianne Feinstein is a Big Fat Pig: Congressional Pork-barrel Spending/ Earmarks are Out of Control under Nancy Pelosi While the Democrats promised to clean up Congress, Nancy Pelosi and her ilk are letting the American people down miserably. Still, the MSM refuses to inform the public how corrupt the Democrats are. Instead, they would rather focus on a bathroom incident as the Democrats destroy our treasury worse than the Republicans ever did. If we review the numbers, the amount of pork-barrel spending and earmarks are out of control. Not only does Dianne Feinstein funnel money to her husband’s business with Iraq War funds, she spends more of our money than any other Congressman. Senator Dianne Feinstein raked in $382.3 Million, Rep. Jack Murtha, D-Pa., ate away at $186 Million, Barbara Boxer tore her “fair share” of $152.5 Million, Nancy Pelosi used her good ethics to spend $141.3 Million, Rep. David Obey, D-Wis. rang up $96 Million, and House Majority Leader Steny Hoyer, D-Md., brought in $85.5 Million. Well, at least Nancy Pelosi allowed a bunch of children to sit on her lap in front of Congress. With this blatant corruption and spending, it has gotten to the point where the MSM is openly trying to elect Democrats into office. There are too many worthy stories that are ignored for this to be a coincidence. Honestly, how is it possible that we have Democratic Party Congressmen who funnel money to their husbands, stash thousands of dollars in their freezers, get caught on tape considering bribes, become involved in shady land deals, waste tax dollars to pay lucrative salaries to their entire family, and nobody hears anything about it? The answer is very simple: The liberal media has made a conscious decision to sacrifice their ratings in order to win seats in the 2008 election. There is simply no other explanation for this nonsense. Our greatest hope, however, is that enough informed Americans learn about these facts before it is time to vote. It appears that Countdown with Keith Olbermann will not be enlightening us with these pertinent facts anytime soon. redstate.com

To: Lazarus_Long who wrote (20)	1/11/2008 12:24:07 PM
From: Tadsamillionaire	Respond to of 26

Here piggie, piggie! Billions in fed trough Millions earmarked for La Raza radicals, Charlie Rangel library, more 2008 pork WASHINGTON – It looks like Rep. Charles Rangel, D-N.Y., is going to get his wish – $2 million in taxpayer funding for a library commemorating his 37 years in the House of Representatives. The Charles B. Rangel Center for Public service will serve as a repository for his "papers," and the congressman will have his own office in the Harlem complex. The facility has already attracted some $25 million in funding from private sources. Rangel suggests the project will someday be "as important as the Carter and Clinton libraries." That's just one of hundreds of so-called "earmarks," pet projects of members of the House and Senate, costing taxpayers billions set for approval in the 2008 budget. The pork-barrel spending planned for next year includes $3.5 million for La Raza, sometimes described as a radical hate group which advocates a takeover of parts of the U.S. Southwest by Mexico. A plan by Sens. Hillary Rodham Clinton and Charles Schumer, both Democrats from New York, to spend $1 million on a Woodstock museum was shot down this week to the astonishment of its backers. But plenty of other pork is still on the plate: $1 million for the Clinton School of Public Service in Little Rock, requested by Sens. Blanche Lincoln and Mark Pryor, both Democrats from Arkansas; $200,000 for the Andre Agassi College Preparatory Academy in Las Vegas, requested by Rep. Shelley Berkley of Nevada; $3.74 million for research into the Formosan Subterranean Termite, requested by Reps. Rodney Alexander and Richard Baker of Louisiana; AFL-CIO Working for America Institute, requested by Sen. Tom Harkin; $750,000 for the Franklin Delano Roosevelt Presidential Library, requested by Clinton, Schumer and Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid; $3.76 million for the Lyndon Baines Johnson Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Kay Bailey Hutchison; $1 million for the Richard M. Nixon Presidential Library, requested by Sen. Thad Cochrane, Republican of Mississippi; $150,000 for rodent control on the Aleutian Islands, requested by Ted Stevens of Alaska; $250,000 to build the Walter Clore Wine and Culinary Center in Washington, requested by Rep. Doc Hastings. $470,000 to study the Asian Long-Horned Beetle, requested by Sen. Dick Durbin of Illinois; $244,077 for bee research in Weslaco, Texas, requested by Rep. Chet Edwards; $213,386 to study the Oliver Fruit Fly in Montpelier, France, requested by Mike Thompson of California; $1.7 million for the Centers for Disease Control to fund a Hollywood liaison to advise doctor dramas; $5.1 million for "audio and visual integration" in the CDC's new Thomas R. Harkin communications and visitor center – and, yes, that is Sen. Tom Harkin of Iowa. Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla., is sick of this kind of spending. He was responsible for leading the successful fight against the Woodstock Museum. Not only did he question the propriety and constitutionality of spending taxpayer money on building a commemorative facility to the 1969 rock music festival, but he pointed out the project had all the "earmarks" of a political quid pro quo. The museum is being funded by billionaire Alan Gerry and his foundation, which has investment income of $24 million a year. Gerry donated $229,000 to political campaigns, with much of it going to support Clinton and Schumer, the senators carrying water for his pet project. Coburn has offered an amendment calling on the Senate to place a temporary moratorium on transportation pork until all structurally deficient bridges are repaired. His measure was defeated 82-14. worldnetdaily.com