Posts Tagged ‘pork’
Porkapalooza On Steroids: Listeners Prove Jim Wrong – Update
OK … you were right and I didn’t think it was possible. Today’s poll question … do you think the Senate Democrats will kill, cut, or add more pork to the porkapalooza, should not have been a hard one since I wrote the poll question but I admit I was wrong. I thought the answer…
Read MoreThe government never needs a haircut
Take action now. Radio Vice Online and Jim’s show – Sound Off Connecticut – now has a national audience. We’re even getting hundreds of visitors from outside of the United States. As a coalition, we may be able to do get together and burn up some phone lines and keep e-mail servers busy. Why does…
Read MorePorkapalooza passes … Republicans hold firm – Update: Post
If the numbers I see here are correct … then Republicans refused to cave to this pork filled piece of crap. Some economic stimulus. Money for sod, birth control, HIV and STD prevention, government cars, the arts … not to mention billions for day care centers and let’s not forget ACORN. Please. Stimulus? You decide.…
Read MoreDC Mall sodding a stimulus to economy – never mind…
OK … yesterday Gibbs defended the millions of dollars to sod the DC mall as an economic stimulus. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HZlhLMIrS2I But that became an embarrassment so the Democrats took it out. Today Gibbs was hit with the question today … yesterday a stimulus, today its not? httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iQajHrOXEIY These guys are starting to look like the gang…
Read MorePresident: “Republicans On Board” GOP: “Not So Fast”
The President met with House and Senate Republicans today and the way he figures it … they will be a part of the final “Democrats Only $825 Billion – $1.3 Trillion” stimulus plan … here he is right after the meeting with House Republicans. httpv://www.youtube.com/watch?v=eRiJhjYaX9w But wait just a dog gone minute. Congressman Mike Pence…
Read MoreWanted: media reports on stimulus pork spending – Updated
We dished out hundreds of billions to the finance system and got pretty much nothing in return. Many of these institutions are now insolvent – whatever that means – but that does not mean the government can not find other ways to spend upwards of $1 trillion dollars to stimulate the economy. I should have…
Read MoreIt’s not pork … it’s an investment.
Red State does a great job of drawing out the pork in a 825 billion dollar “must have right away or the nation will sink into a depression like you have never seen before” stimulus package. Are you curious about what’s in the stimulus bill? We’ve put it online at ReadTheStimulus.org, and have even parsed the…
Read MoreCan Obama curb Congressional pork projects?
I’m really not so sure. Many are of the thought the horse has left the barn, Elvis the building, and the pig is rolling in the slop. During yesterday’s media show, Obama promised to ban, that’s right ban, all earmarks. My question right off the bat is what is his definition of an earmark? ……
Read MoreBailout legislation impossible to read
I don’t have a law degree. I don’t have 12 hours to read the full text of the bailout bill that the Senate is debating right now. The average person should be able to read this crap – or at least use the Ctrl+f key to do a keyword search in the damn thing.
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