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http://www.videosift.com/video/Ron-Paul-Explains-Why-We-Need-More-Earmarks#comment-699663

I can almost hear the skin around my Sifting Democrat friends' mouths wrinkling upward around a smile of devilish joy. Haha. "The final dagger in blankfist's Ron Paul Utopia! Bwahahaha!"

Sorry, but, this isn't news to me. And it's not damning even if Fox News disagrees with it.

If you cannot see the difference between spending in the billions (trillions!) we don't have versus millions already allocated, I'm not sure what to say. Dr. Paul points out in his book how Republican politicians tend to use these "pork" earmarks as talking points, claiming they are wasteful spending.

But, Repubs always want to cut the pork that costs in the low millions ("Democrats want to spend $12 million on funding a study on dead aborted kangaroo fetuses! It's pork! It's pork, I says!"). But, never do you hear them clamor against cutting the billions and trillions spent on endless wars.

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It's a win-win situation, Paul earmarks the funds for his district, then takes a "principled" stand, and votes against the spending, but when it inevitably passes anyway, he gets to take credit for bringing the money to his home district.

All the other Republicans do it too.

That said, Paul's right, earmarks are a made up issue. If Republicans think it's a bad practice, they could have put an end to it permanently while they were in power.

Even if you eliminated all earmarks, it wouldn't change the amount of spending by one cent; it'd just mean individual congresscritters can't put a stamp on portions of it and say "I personally want this bacon to go to this project".

FWIW, Democrats are not saints on this topic either, but we have our own anti-earmark Senators too (Claire McCaskill and Russ Feingold). Just neither of them based the entire economic leg of a presidential run on ending earmarks. Though ours are a little less hypocritical about spending -- they aren't in the habit of earmarking a bill, voting against it for the "irresponsible spending," then basing a reelection campaign on having secured funds for their state.

It's okay to waste money since we're wasting more of it on Iraq? That doesn't make sense.

$7.8 billion is a lot of money. It adds up. And the whole pork situation is ridiculous. Just like Obama said, "...but when they start characterizing this as pork without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package, something again that was pretty rare over the last 8 years, then you get a feeling that maybe we're playing politics instead of actually trying to solve problems for the American people."

Obama ackowledges that we need earmark reform because pork is about politicians playing politics and wasting our money. I agree that government should be involved in projects at home, but we should be funding most of these things on a local level.

I just hope that Obama starts doing what he promised to do.

Obama predicted a deficit in four years: $3,600,000,000,000. "Three point six Trillion DOLLARS."

This is the highest by 3x in history. That's three times the highest deficit in the history of the USA even including Bush's last term where he "conveniently(/stupidly) left out Iraq" (which I've included nonetheless)P.
Quote Barack:
"We will ban Earmars"
There are NINE THOUSAND (9000) EARMARKS in the current budget for this year alone.... Wow.

0=9000 apparently this year.... nice. Can 0=my debt as well as a poor constituent?... I make about a $23000 a year Obama training to be a major benefit to your scientific future. My stipend is not helping me and is not helping my friends complete their Ph.D.s. My friend of science. Your words are so far hollow to us. We are at the brink of destitution already and we have been for years. Change that or we will be lost to you. This is not a loby. It is a cry for hope from a people who have bound ourselves to a huge education to further science. Where are you now? Where is your word now? I don't see it...?

What? $7.8 billion in earmarks?

That's about, what? Two weeks in Iraq?

Only we're spending the money on projects in America instead of giving it to warmongering cocksuckers like Cheney and Haliburton and the rest of the war machine?

Glenn Beck is a fuckwad's dream come true.

Limbaugh appeals to the conservative bigots, and Beck makes the stupid cons feel smart.

>> ^volumptuous:
Hey, another video of Peter Paul talking about the past, but bringing nothing to the table of what to do in the future.
And to think the Libtards are on the fringe!
I wonder if Peter knows about his BFF Ron Paul getting almost $100million dollars in earmarks from the new spending bill:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6286883.html
"Paul played a role in obtaining 22 earmarks worth $96.1 million"

Oh sure, Paul railed against the bill. Called it "socialism" and "fascism" at the CPAC circle-jerk. But, just as I expected, he's all talk and nothing else.


So Ron Paul's constituents are supposed to pay taxes and get nothing back on principle? If his district could opt out of paying taxes I would understand your point but they can't so I don't.

Hey, another video of Peter Paul talking about the past, but bringing nothing to the table of what to do in the future.

And to think the Libtards are on the fringe!

I wonder if Peter knows about his BFF Ron Paul getting almost $100million dollars in earmarks from the new spending bill:
http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/6286883.html

"Paul played a role in obtaining 22 earmarks worth $96.1 million"


Oh sure, Paul railed against the bill. Called it "socialism" and "fascism" at the CPAC circle-jerk. But, just as I expected, he's all talk and nothing else.

DEMOCROOKS

$34,000: the amount of federal taxes that Secretary of the Treasury Timothy Geithner (D) failed to pay during his employment at the International Monetary Fund despite receiving extra compensation and explanatory brochures that described his tax liabilities.

$75,000: the amount of money that the head of the powerful tax-writing committee, Rep. Charlie Rangel (D-NY), was forced to report on his taxes after the discovery that he had not reported income from a Costa Rican rental property. His excuses for the failure started with blaming his wife, then his accountant and finally the fact that he didn't speak Spanish.

$93,000: the amount of petty cash each Congressional representative voted to give themselves in January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.

$133,900: the amount Fannie Mae "invested" in Chris Dodd (D-CT), head of the powerful Senate Banking Committee, presumably to repel oversight of the GSE prior to its meltdown. Said meltdown helped touch off the current economic crisis. In only a few years time, Fannie also "invested" over $105,000 in then-Senator Barack Obama.

$140,000: the amount of back taxes and interest that Cabinet nominee Tom Daschle (D) was forced to cough up after the vetting process revealed significant, unexplained tax liabilities.

$356,000: the approximate amount of income and deductions that Daschle (D) was forced to report on his amended 2005 and 2007 tax returns after being caught cheating on his taxes. This includes $255,256 for the use of a car service, $83,333 in unreported income, and $14,963 in charitable contributions.

$800,000: the amount of "sweetheart" mortgages Senate Banking Chairman Chris Dodd (D-CT) received from Countrywide Financial, the details for which he has refused to release details despite months of promises to do so. Countrywide was once the nation's largest mortgage lender and linked to Government-Sponsored Entities like Fannie Mae and Freddie Mac. Their meltdown precipitated the current financial crisis. Just days ago in Pennsylvania, Countrywide was forced to pay $150,000,000 in mortgage assistance following "a state investigation that concluded that Countrywide relaxed its underwriting standards to sell risky loans to consumers who did not understand them and could not afford them."

$1,000,000: the estimated amount of donations by Denise Rich, wife of fugitive Marc Rich, to Democrat interests and the William J. Clinton Foundation in an apparent quid pro quo deal that resulted in a pardon for Mr. Rich. The pardon was reviewed and blessed by Obama Attorney General and then Deputy AG Eric Holder, despite numerous requests by government officials to turn it down.

$12,000,000: the amount of TARP money provided to community bank OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters (D-CA), a key contributor to the Fannie Mae meltdown, just happens to be married to one of the bank's ex-directors.

$23,500,000: The upper range of net worth Rep. Allan Mollohan (D-WV) accumulated in four years time according to The Washington Post through earmarks of "tens of millions of dollars to groups associated with his own business partners."

$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House Appropriations Chairman David Obey (D-WI) is earmarking related to his son's lobbying efforts. Craig Obey is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus" package.

$3,700,000,000: ($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated value of various defense contracts awarded to a company controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein (D-CA). Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee, Sen. Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms ."

$4,190,000,000: ($4.19 billion) the amount of money in the so-called "Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter registration ACORN group under the auspices of "Community Stabilization Activities". ACORN is currently the subject of a RICO suit in Ohio.

$1,646,000,000,000: ($1.646 trillion): the approximate amount of annual United States exports endangered by the "Stimulus" package, which provides a "Buy American" stricture. According to international trade experts, a "US-EU trade war looms", which could result in a worldwide economic depression reminiscent of that touched off by the protectionist Smoot-Hawley Act.

http://www.whitehouse.gov/blog/change_has_come_to_whitehouse-gov/

the little things that already show how different obama is, whitehouse.gov's robot.txt is now open for search engines.

before obama:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /cgi-bin
Disallow: /search
Disallow: /query.html
Disallow: /omb/search
Disallow: /omb/query.html
Disallow: /expectmore/search
Disallow: /expectmore/query.html
Disallow: /results/search
Disallow: /results/query.html
Disallow: /earmarks/search
Disallow: /earmarks/query.html
Disallow: /help
Disallow: /360pics/text
Disallow: /911/911day/text
Disallow: /911/heroes/text
plus around 2500 more lines of disallow: http://pastebin.com/f18309565

now:

User-agent: *
Disallow: /includes/

and the all the content on whitehouse.gov is presented as crative commons.

He just said Earmarks 3 times in 20 seconds... my liver can't take this.

"earmarks"

DRINK!