I'm surprised that no one posted on this subject today. I guess we're all numb to the vast amounts of dollars that FedGov is spending under the The ONE's administration and his
Democrat godless socialist friends in Congress. As I recall The ONE promised during his campaign to put a stop to earmarks and pet projects yet today he signed the $410,000,000,000.00 Porkapalooza bill into law today! What a fucking liar he is proving to be, eh? I noted a mention that he signed this bill in a 'private' ceremony. I guess that he was too embarrassed by all of the pork and earmarks to show his face when he signed it. What a disgrace!
As a reminder this 'spending' is in addition to the TARP Bill, the Stimulus Bill, the FedGov Budget Proposal, and the Bailouts.
This is an excerpt from a Yahoo News story, as usual, all emphasis is my own:
Congress approves massive $410B spending bill
By ANDREW TAYLOR
Wed Mar 11, 12:13 am ET
WASHINGTON – Congress on Tuesday sent President Barack Obama a once-bipartisan bill to fund the domestic Cabinet agencies that evolved instead into a symbol of lawmakers' free-spending ways and penchant for back-home pet projects. The Senate approved the measure by voice after it cleared a key procedural hurdle by a 62-35 vote. Sixty votes were required to shut down debate.
Obama is expected to sign the measure Wednesday to avoid a partial shutdown of the government. But the White House has kept the bill at arm's length, calling it last year's business. Obama is also set to announce steps aimed at curbing lawmakers' so-called earmarks.
The $410 billion bill is chock-full of those pet projects and significant increases in food aid for the poor, energy research and other programs. It was supposed to have been completed last fall, but Democrats opted against election-year battles with Republicans and former President George W. Bush.
The measure was a top priority for Democratic leaders, who praised it for numerous increases denied by Bush. It once enjoyed support from Republicans such as Senate Minority Leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky.
But the bill ran into an unexpected political hailstorm in Congress after Obama's spending-heavy economic stimulus bill and his 2010 budget plan forecasting a $1.8 trillion deficit for the current budget year. And Republicans seized on Obama's willingness to sign a bill packed with earmarks after he assailed them as a candidate.
"If it had not been for the stimulus and the budget proposal it might have been ... noncontroversial," said House GOP leader John Boehner of Ohio. "The stimulus bill riled an awful lot of people up. ... And then the budget proposal comes out."
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And, yes, The ONE did sign it today, (from a separate article):
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Obama signed the bill in private, unlike a number of recent signings that took place with fanfare, but he raised the issue of earmarks in public remarks playing down their scope and possible harm in the measure.
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Here are the links to both articles, respectively, sad reading indeed:
http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/congress_spendinghttp://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/obama_spending
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