Food for Thought
Just thought some of you out there who like ’sources’ would get an interesting read here. Back on the political machine, I found the following posts from the Heritage.
Omnibus Spending Bill Busts the Budget to Pay for Pork
December 17, 2007
http://www.heritage.org/research/budget/wm1751.cfm
This was an article written when Bush was in office. It explains how he tried to limit the amount of money congress could spend, yet they managed to loop hole their way around it. It mentions the number of ear marks, the pork put in to all the spending plans, and how upset the country was with the broken promises that congress made.
Omnibus Spending Bill: Huge Spending and 9,000 Earmarks Represent Business as Usual
March 2, 2009
http://www.heritage.org/Research/Budget/wm2318.cfm
This one is about the bill being sent through right now. This one complains about all the pork in the current bill, and more broken promises. Here is a quote:
“Even a recession and record $1.4 trillion budget deficit has not altered Congress’s business-as-usual culture of spending and pork. While families and entrepreneurs are responsibly bringing their own budgets under control, Congress is spending and earmarking as if nothing has changed in the economy. This bill represents nearly everything Democrats had criticized about the earlier Republican Congresses. It forces lawmakers to vote quickly on a bloated package combining nine separate appropriations bills. It irresponsibly expands the already-record budget deficit. And despite strongly worded proclamations about cleaning up Washington, the 2009 appropriation bills will have the second-most earmarks in history.”
It is just funny to me, down right hilarious, that a lot of the complaints waiged against the bush administation, are now being waiged against Obama’s. Maybe, just maybe, Bush wasn’t that bad of a guy. Congress was the group with the power in both administrations, and they haven’t changed at all.
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