Thread: Congress spending billions anonymously

Congress spending billions anonymously
Pork whistleblowers expose offenders from both parties

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Posted: April 17, 2009
12:00 am Eastern

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A spokeswoman for an organization that highlights "pork" project funding by members of the U.S. Congress says there have been changes in Washington in recent weeks and months – lawmakers are leaving their names off of the projects they want.

"After we started going through it we started seeing a lot of anonymous earmarks, $7.8 billion in total," said Leslie Paige of Citizens Against Government Waste. "Most were in the defense appropriations bill, with no name attached. In a lot of cases they don't even have a state identified [for where the money is going]."

The organization "honored" a number of projects, including the plan by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, to spend $1.8 million for "swine odor and manure management research." The "Narcissist Award" went to Sen. Pat Roberts, R-Kan., for $2 million for the Pat Roberts Intelligence Scholars Program. Another spending program highlighted was by Rep. Howard Berman, D-Calif., who is spending $200,000 for tattoo removal.

The "Dim Bulb Award" went to Michigan Sens. Carl Levin and Debbie Stabenow, both Democrats, and Rep. Carolyn Kirkpatrick, another Democrat, for $951.500 for street lamps in Detroit.

Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Miss., led the way with $653 million in pork, the organization said.

The report said this year's "Pig Book" cites 10,160 projects costing $19.6 billion, up from $17.2 billion from a year ago.

Among other spending plans: $3.8 million for the Old Tiger Stadium Conservancy in Detroit; $1.9 million for the Pleasure Beach water taxi service in Connecticut; and $95,000 for the Canton Symphony Orchestra Association in Ohio.

"Regardless of what you think you've heard about pork projects, they are not in any way reducing," Paige said.

"I think what's being promoted and promulgated in the media and by members of the leadership of this House and Senate are telling everybody is just not true," she said.


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Originally Posted by jean

...the plan by Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, to spend $1.8 million for "swine odor and manure management research."

I'm all for that. I'd even contribute $3 (which I don't have) for it on my income tax form, if it didn't add onto MY tax bill.

Swine manure stink is one of the worst odors on earth. It carries might near a mile. Of course, y'all who think milk comes from a milk truck wouldn't know. But we can't have pork without it, unless we import swine from China. And you thought "avian flu" from China chickens was bad! Wait until you catch "swine flu" from China pigs!

I'll have to clean the chickens and pigs out of my china cabinet now.

Or would you rather be a pig? IMAGINE living in that stink 24/7! Swine are very intelligent, ranking right up there with dolphins and humans and big largemouth bass, and I'm not too sure about humans sometimes. I'd let PETA know what pigs think about stink, but all PETA would do is attempt to eliminate pork. They might even throw rotten eggs at women wearing swine furs.

That "Dim Bulb Award" should go to those Capitol Hill types who think "Sharia-compliant financing" (SCF) involves eliminating pork from the Congressional appropriations pill, which is so big that swallowing it requires a lot of grease - the fat from pork, of course.

And as for "Congress spending billions anonymously," they're not fooling anybody. Everyone knows who it is that is spending billions. It's Congress. Except for people with a engraving printing press, everyone else is broke.

Obama is spreading the American people's wealth to the third world thug illegals as well as to his criminal political elites in Washigton and his criminal business associates and orgnaizations (like Acorn).

Obama needs to be impeached!

Beware his newest project is a high speed railway system..........at first this may sound like a good thing but actually it is part of the plan of the North American Uniion. Check it out!


http://www.judicialwatch.org/SPP

http://www.stopthenorthamericanunion.com/ Find out how the Rail Way connects to the NAU.

http://www.c-span.org/Watch/C-SPAN_wm.aspx Briefing on the High speed Rail. An Aside Obama talked about all the jobs that would be created by building this rail system, what he didn't mention was that he vetoed E-verify so a good number of those jobs will go to illegals.