- Bang

PCD, Too many letters in the acronym. It’ll tire your fingers out.

You are so wrong about every thing and interject yourself into every conversation with the most insane posts. You really belong in a rubber room, not in a chat room or on a blog.

steve(FN) in his bid to become steve(FS) proved he can’t comprehend the Constitution and the Declaration of Independence. In the spirit of steve(FN)’s rantings I demand that steve(FN) put the local authorities on notice that no police, fire or National Guard be sent to steve(FN)’s abode for any reason as steve(FN) wants peace. I do require steve(FN) to provide proof he has done so or his designation will change to steve(HFNMB).

I was turned onto this site by another big fan of steve’s who signed himself, Dave in CO (I believe). Well, I just hurried right over here and sure enough, steve is spewing his drivel for all to abhore. Every word from steve begs mockery. It’s just the way it is. I pray he comes to be truly enlightened rather than his John Lennon type blatherings, but I fear it’s a pipe dream. So should I find him as I surf the blogs, I’ll ask him the only question for which I care to hear an answer, if he’d only give it. That is: How would steve use his psuedo-philosophical give-peace-a-chance crapola to thwart the attack of a terrorist, gang-banger or other ne’er-do-well who is intent on doing him deadly harm? After months and months, I still await an answer. I don’t hold my breath.

Finally, aside from the wars, hurricanes and tsunamis that have wrung money from federal coffers, there has also been a rise in people applying for federal aid. But all in all, it’s hard to find a politician that won’t spend our money. That’s why it’s neccessary to watch local politics a little more to see how these guys act on the smaller stages. A little tougher with those who jump right into national politics, but if we as a people are more vocal on this issue, someone will rise to the challenge. Alas, ’tis another pipe dream perhaps?

- Bang

We the People of the United States, in Order to form a more perfect Union, establish Justice, insure domestic Tranquility, provide for the common defense, promote the general Welfare, and secure the Blessings of Liberty to ourselves and our Posterity, do ordain and establish this Constitution for the United States of America.

PROVIDE FOR THE COMMON DEFENSE, what exactly does that say to you. Seems to me that provide for the common defense means to establish a military. The problem is some of the “We The People” are very dumb, thats D U M B, Dumb.

Good Lord Steve I would hope by now you would know something of the lines you sling around. You really need to quit cherry picking your facts. Pull your head out Man – Lorica

Pork By State
$ 23,345,744,262 in pork identified so far

Link

Check the link out, it is a break down by Pork per State.

That is over 23 BILLION dollars in pork spending that senators include in bills to help benefit and pay for things that shouldn’t be getting government money.

Added to Bills that need to be passed, so they can little riders (leeches or ticks) that suck the blood off the Bill to benefit themselves.

Couple of quotes, instead of answering the questions and saying how THEY will do something or what they have a plan to reduce spedning…they instead ignore hte question and use it as a platform to attack the president:

Richard Durbin (D)- Illinois:

Offered no projects that he would cut. Instead used it as an opportunity to attack the President on Iraq and tax cuts.

Pork Identified in his State: $ 2,782,919,295

Wow, I am not suprised he doesn’t want anything cut, pork barrel spending in his state is 1 BILLION dollars more than in California!

Barbara Boxer (D) – California:

No response on pork or spending at all. Instead she is using the issue solely for political purposes. She “replied”: “I am extremely upset about the Bush Administration’s appallingly slow response to assist the victims of this tragedy….

Sen. Boxer isn’t even listening on this topic. In response to a second email asking about budget cuts, Boxer sent the exact same canned email about the slow Bush response and the need to spend on Katrina that I received the first time.

Pork Identified in her State: $ 1,772,299,750

Carl Levin (D) – Michigan:

Senator Levin replied with a canned response critical of the federal government’s response. He ignored my question regarding offsets.

Pork Identified in his State: $ 139,240,000

John McCain (R) – Arizona

Both Senator McCain’s office and Senator Kyl’s office said that they already proposed cutting pork spending to pay for the Katrina reconstruction. No further information was provided.

BUT…

McCain, the Republican nemesis of pork barrel projects, is the force behind a bill that would direct $2 million annually over five years to establish a center at a specified law school to honor a renowned jurist from his home state of Arizona..

Pork Identified in his State: $ 270,425,972

Now Nancy Pelosi doesn’t give a canned response as some of the others do, and gets specific and has a positive response to some of the pork:

Nancy Pelosi (D) – California

Return to the federal Treasury $70 million designated for San Francisco projects in the new highway and transportation bill and use the money to help pay for Hurricane Katrina recovery efforts.

Pork Identified in her State: $ 1,772,299,750

Mark Udall (D) – Colorado

Introduced H.R. 3966 (“SLICE” Act): “Currently, Congress can ignore a presidential proposal to cancel specific spending. Under my bill, there would be a vote, up or down, on each presidential proposal to cut something from the transportation bill.

Pork Identified in his State: $ 106,873,296

Tom Coburn (R) – Oklahoma

Sen. Coburn calls for a freeze on discretionary spending

Pork Identified in his State: $ 269,408,000

I only identified a few of the more well knowns, but in all what incentive does senators and congressman have in reducing the spedning when it benefits them?

In a way, I do think the President should have line item veto power just for pork barrel add-ons, but it also worries me that line item veto power could be misused also.

Bak is right though (believe it was Baklava) that every time there a program the government is funding gets a little less than normal, so it doesn’t get it’s normal 17 percent increase, it only gets 10 percent increase this time, the Democrats scream and whine that we are cutting such and such program…like medicare, and then run to the streets and media whining that the President is trying to kill the elderly by taking away their medications….ect.

I will agree spending has gotten out of hand, but we are in a war still, and we have had 2 major hurricanes recently. Katrina is for a different subject, but to suffice it to say, that has pork barrel spending all over it to benefit not the poor, not the homeless, not those who need it, but to state officials and what they divert the money for. But that is the norm for that area, its been years on the government dole, money for hte levees getting diverted to other projects, ect.

Until we let our Government know, and this means both sides, that we do not want an out of control spending government. Just because you SERVE our states as OUR representatives, does not mean you have the right and power to play with OUR money however you see fit.

There needs to be standards and accountability on both sides.

What I find ridiculous are the finger pointers. Especially the dems/dums. They walk around all holy, and accuse the other side of a culture of corruption. Most times the loudest finger pointers are guilty of alot worse than what they are pointing out.