The Angry White Guy

The DEMOCRAT are wanting to attach an amendment to the Afghanistan war funding (Defense Spending Bill) in a unscrupulous move to raise the debt limit again for the second time this year. Now granted the debt isn’t $14 TRILLION yet it’s only $12.1 TRILLION the democrats want to raise the limit by $1.8 to $1.9 TRILLION and knowing the Democrats the way we do know that they are like junkies and if they have access to it they are going to use it.

Dems propose $1.8 TRILLION debt ceiling increase
Congress Stuffs Its Own Stocking

The plan is to attach the debt ceiling provision to a military spending bill and vote on it next week. The cynical goal is to accuse those who vote “no” of being against the military. It’s likely that more billions in earmarks will be included as sweeteners to attract votes.

Now they pasted a huge omnibus pork filled bill and here are a few items from it…
Another Year, Another Pork-Stuffed Omnibus Spending Bill

First, while most people have focused on health care and cap-and-trade, discretionary spending has leaped by 25 percent since the Democrats took the Congressional majority three years ago — plus $311 billion in additional “stimulus” discretionary spending. This comes to $561 billion more in discretionary spending over these three years than if they had limited growth to the baseline inflation rate. Worse, this new spending has pushed the 2011–2020 discretionary spending baseline $1.7 trillion higher than three years ago. We’ll be paying this bill for decades.

Second, remember President Obama’s pledge to “slash earmarks to no greater than 1994 levels” of 1,318? He followed up that promise by signing a pork-laden omnibus bill in February, and then promising once again to cut pork next time. House Democrats made similar pledges. Well, this bill contains 5,224 earmarks, bringing the year’s total to 8,939, and with a remaining defense bill that will likely push the total past 10,000 (this year’s whoppers includes $750,000 for the World Food Prize in Des Moines). In other words: promises made, promises brazenly broken. After blasting the GOP majority for exceeding 10,000 earmarks twice in twelve years, the Democratic majority will have exceeded 10,000 in each of its first three years. And President Obama — who recently said, “If my administration evaluates an earmark and determines that it has no legitimate public purpose, then we will seek to eliminate it” — hasn’t publicly criticized a single earmark.

Let me start with my own congressman Ed “Rino” Whitfield (R-KY) he will be hearing from me…

$250,000 by Rep. Ed Whitfield (R-Ky.) for construction of the Monroe County Farmer’s Market

$1,000,000 by Senate appropriator Judd Gregg (R-N.H.) for repairs, restoration, and modernization of a theatre and construction of an additional space at the Portsmouth Music Hall

$400,000 by House appropriator Maurice Hinchey (D-N.Y.) for restoration and renovation of the historic Ritz Theatre in Newburgh, N.Y

$400,000 by Rep. Yvette Clarke (D-N.Y.) for construction and renovation for safety improvements at the Brooklyn Botanical Garden

$350,000 by House appropriator Chaka Fattah (D-Pa.) and Rep. Robert Brady (D-Pa.) for renovation of the Uptown Theatre in Philadelphia

$250,000 by Rep. Michael Turner (R-Ohio) for building renovation of the Murphy Theatre, in Wilmington

$194,000 by Sen. Sheldon Whitehouse (D-R.I.) for completion of the historic restoration project at the Historic Slater Mill in Pawtucket

$150,000 by House appropriator Jose Serrano (D-N.Y.) for Safe Harbors of the Hudson, Inc., for renovation and build out of the Pregones Theatre, in the Bronx

$100,000 by House appropriator Ken Calvert (R-Calif.) for construction on the Santa Ana River Trail

$800,000 for jazz at New York’s Lincoln Center, for Rep. Jerold Nadler, D-N.Y

750,000 for exhibits at the World Food Prize Hall Sen. Tom Harkin, (D-Iowa.) and Rep. Leonard Boswell, (D-Iowa)

$3,400,000 for a rural bus program Dan Inoye and Daniel Akaka (D-HI)

$800,000 for the Monterey Bay Sanctuary Scenic Trail Rep. Sam Farr (D-Ca)

$200,000 provided for the Aquatic Adventures Science Education Foundation Rep. Susan A. Davis (D-CA)

Want more?

* Senator Tom Harkin of Iowa appears to have secured lots of pork for the Hawkeye state. The largest earmark is $7.3 million for the “Harkin Grant” program which subsidizes school construction and modernization.
* The Utah-based “I Won’t Cheat” Foundation for anti-steroids education receives $250,000.
* South Salt Lake City, Utah receives $100,000 to expand ESL classes at the Villa Franche apartment complex.
* The Rodel Foundation of Delaware gets $150,000 for its Parent Leadership Institute.
* A dropout prevention program in Scottsdale, Arizona gets $150,000.
* College football fans will notice that there is even some BCS-pork in the Omnibus. Fans at Boise State and the University of Iowa can celebrate * * $465,000 in education earmarks at their bowl games this year!

and then we have Puppet Shows being paid with stimulus money…
Puppet Show Caught in Stimulus Spending Spat

And this is just the tiniest tip of the iceberg of the abuse in congress… and it’s not just Democrats, Republicans are just as guilty and I know mine will be getting a call.

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