Pork?
Posted By: government sucks! on 2009-01-30
In Reply to: Stimulus Package - Backwards typist
I thought the obamanator wasn't going to allow pork in his stimulus package? That man will say anything and then turn around and do anything. I don't trust him at all. I was giving him a chance but I just don't see how I can anymore. We never should have elected someone who learned politics from corrupt politicians in Illinois. Something is horribly wrong here.
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PORK
Jobs? Pleeze......there are doctors to help these folks, doctors already in place. There will be no REAL jobs created for this crap.
I am sitting here talking with a nutritionist at a local hospital, doctorate degree, and she said this will do absolutely nothing to create jobs, that it is just another bunch of crap.
She has seen all this broohaha before, wanting to help the obese and smokers and all it does is create more paperwork for those already doing the job.
These are SOCIAL programs. We do not need more social programs. Don't you realize that? More social programs = MORE GOVERNMENT. More government is the problem.
I hope to he!! they get rid of the dog and frisbee park and all the other garbage in there.
I don't want to pay for anyone's birth control and condoms either......
Guess that will produce jobs too?
Pork....(sm)
$50 million for the National Endowment for the Arts.
Mapplethorpe is pleased, remember crosses in jars of urine?
This one was in the House bill, not in the Senate bill.
$650 million for digital-TV coupons.
TV is going digital and it is necessary for people to be able to get converter boxes. Otherwise, no news, no TV, etc.
$34 million to renovate the Department of Commerce headquarters.
Renovation means construction = jobs.
$350 million for Agriculture Department computers.
Buy new computers = putting money in the economy = jobs for people to build computers.
$150 million for “producers of livestock, honeybees, and farm-raised fish.
This is straight up help for food production. In particular, there is a serious problem right now with lack of honeybees. As in, pollination is a problem right now. I'm actually thinking about raising honeybees myself for help with my garden.
Believe it or not, dems want to cut the pork too! nm
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For pork hunters...(sm)
A lot of you are saying that there is still pork in the stimulus. How about listing those pork projects that are still in the bill. I'm interested to see what you think is pork.
King of Pork!
And the King is...... Robert Byrd - D-WVA
60 earmarks for a total of 122 million.....
Only $473,000? Whoever submitted that bit of pork
We just spent $6 million to install bomb detection equipment at the airport in (drumroll.....) Jackson Hole, Wyoming. I've been worried sick about Jackson Hole, haven't you?
At least they're trying to stop most of the pork
I don't know why you DON'T object to most of this stimulus package. It's a bunch of crap. Three quarters of the stuff doesn't belong in a STIMULUS PACKAGE, it belongs in the BUDGET.
Definition of Pork aka Earmarks
Just so we all know what pork (aka "earmarks") actually is:
http://www.earmarks.omb.gov
/earmarks_definition.html
From the Office of Management and Budget:
OMB defines earmarks as funds provided by the Congress for projects or programs where the congressional direction (in bill or report language) circumvents Executive Branch merit-based or competitive allocation processes, or specifies the location or recipient, or otherwise curtails the ability of the Executive Branch to manage critical aspects of the funds allocation process.
In other words, provisions added to a bill after the president has ratified the bill that direct funds to certain districts in exchange for promises made beforehand by the representatives from those districts to vote yes on said bill. These are the earmarks (or "pork") that McCain and Obama both campaigned against. This bill contains no pork (yet) because they just passed it.
The GOP's definition of earmarks aka "pork": "Stuff we don't like."
Technically, the provisions in the bill that the GOP and others are calling pork (or earmarks) are not pork.
One person's pork is another ocmmunity's
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Yeah, full of pork, just like those awful republicans
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