Text 18175, 131 rader
Skriven 2006-03-10 10:40:00 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: Fiscal responsibility
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-=> JEFF BINKLEY wrote to JOHN MASSEY <=-

 
JB> What he is saying is that he doesn't know.  
 
Ah, like cockroaches since time immemorial, Binkley strikes
again.  FTR, he knows.
 
JB> He pulled this from a left wing bomb throwing website 


http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/7411269p-7323275c.html

Anchorage Daily News:

[snip]
McCain, though, says the appropriations committees are out of 
control on earmarks. Between 1994 and 2004, the number of 
home-district earmarks in appropriations bills jumped from 
4,000 to 14,000, according to the Congressional Research 
Service. The earmarks in 1994 were worth about $29 billion, 
compared to $52 billion a decade later.

Congressional earmarks for Alaska last year included more 
than $450 million for the controversial bridges in Ketchikan 
and across Knik Arm linking Anchorage to Mat-Su.
[snip]

Damn that left-wing John McCain.  Damn that left-wing Anchorage
Daily News.  Damn that left-wing Congressional Research Service.

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http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183601,00.html

Fox News:

[snip]
Earmarks, said Feinstein, are often "put in in the dark of night 
by people who have substantial power and authority." There's no 
question, Lott said at a news conference, "that the practice has 
exploded over the years."

There were an estimated 14,000 earmarks or pork barrel projects 
inserted into legislation in 2004, more than triple the number 
of a decade earlier, according to one congressional study. The 
value of these projects, ranging from highways to defense 
contracts, was put at $52 billion, nearly double a decade earlier.
[snip]

Damn that left-wing Trent Lott.  Damn that left-wing Fox News.

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http://www.rightpundit.net/index.php?p=611

The Right Pundit:

[snip]
However, when it comes to fighting unnecessary federal spending, 
Senator McCain is one of few willing to wage the battle and he 
should be applauded for that. Here is a letter he and Oklahoma 
Senator Tom Coburn sent to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist 
on the profligately practice of “earmarks", a practice that 
allows congressmen to obtain wasteful federal spending in 
their home district without serious debate or disclosure. 
(Hat tip: KLo at The Corner) Read the whole (short) letter, 
but this excerpt gives you a good idea of what they plan 
to do:

 We are committed to doing all we can to halt this egregious 
 earmarking practice and plan to challenge future legislative 
 earmarks that come to the Senate floor. This will give all 
 Senators the opportunity to learn the merits of proposed 
 earmarked projects and affirm or reject them. Even though 
 votes on earmarks will undoubtedly be quite time-consuming, 
 we sincerely believe that American taxpayers are entitled 
 to a more thorough debate and disclosure about how their 
 money is being spent.

The most disturbing part of their letter is their research 
revealed that in 1994 there were 4,126 “earmarksö while in 
2005 there were 15,268. During that time Republicans were 
in control of the House of Representatives all of the time 
and the Senate most of the time. We elect Republicans to 
limit spending, not to make sure there is plenty of spending 
in our districts.
[snip]

Damn that left-wing Right Pundit.  Damn that left-wing Tom
Coburn.

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http://www.theinternetparty.org/commentary/c_s.php?td=20010709&section_type=com

The Internet Party:
"The Internet Party is non-partisan. We support neither 
Democrats nor Republicans.

We are a grassroots collection of individuals dedicated 
to traditional American democracy: smaller, less intrusive 
government with expanded individual rights and liberties."
 
[snip]
The Washington Post reports:

    "House Republicans have requested 18,898 earmarks 
    (targeted expenditures for home-district projects 
    such as highways, dams, parks and museums) in the 
    spending bills making their way through Congress.  
    If all were approved, the cost would amount to 
    $279 billion -- about the size of the Pentagon's 
    annual budget."
[snip]



So you see Jeff, once more you prove just how full of
shit you and your fact free contributions truly are.  

Be a good boy and crawl back under your rock.

Good night John Hull wherever you are!

Corruption & Incompetence Central, aka the Bush White House.


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