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Originally Posted by Derwood
I don't care
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Not all earmarks are bad. Hell the GOP added damn near 50% of them then started bitching about them, WTF. Well I would say WTF but this is nothing but typical GOP horse shit. We spend money and it's good. The dems spend money and it's bad. Or no it's evil, EVIL I tell you! They're going to destroy the country with their spending. Tax and spend Dems they are! For the past eight years the GOP spent like drunken sailors in a whore house. Only instead of paying for it they put it on the visa. The economy today is a result of several factors but the borrow and spend methods of the neocons is certainly in part to blame. Bush and his Neocon buddies couldn't spend fast enough. Bush vetoed how many spending bills? They poured money in to Iraq and other mind numbing stupid ideas. Blow up a bridge in Iraq? Better send a couple billion to KBR to rebuild it. Mean while bridges here in the states are falling down on their own, no bombs necessary. Why? Because bridge maintenance costs money and it wouldn't make any sense to spend money on stuff like our own infrastructure.
Now after their policies failed the GOP needs a few new talking points and earmarks is high on that list. They're just betting a large % of the US voting population to be dumb enough not to notice they're adding earmarks too. Sadly they'll likely win that bet.
One of the other sad parts is , as I said, not all earmarks are bad. People bitch and moan because the federal government want to spend money on things like honey bee research. What a dumb idea... until you realize bees are disappearing and they just happen to pollinate crops... crops that feed us. Yeah let's not spend money on that stupid research. Maybe we could spend a few billion on Iraqi bee research.