red states rule
05-27-2008, 03:56 PM
While Dems are piling on the pork in spending bills, they are whining how taxes on nearly all workers must be increased to fund the gonverment
Dems promised in 06 they would cut the pork (they also promised they would lower gas prices)
Why are voters listening to the Dems when they have given nothing more then a one finger salute to the voters on so many issues?
Pork Projects Thrive in Democrats' Spending Scam: Kevin Hassett
Commentary by Kevin Hassett
In 2006, Democrats rode the ``Bridge to Nowhere'' to a congressional majority. The Republican Congress attempted to connect Ketchikan, Alaska, to Gravina Island -- a small island with a population of 50 -- with a bridge that would have been one of America's longest.
The $398 million project rightly became a public-relations disaster for Republicans, and may well have been the primary cause of the Republican defeat in 2006. Voters were furious that elected officials would show such little respect for public money.
Playing on those feelings, Democrats promised to end wasteful spending and enacted strict ``paygo,'' or pay as you go, rules that would prohibit policy changes that increase the deficit relative to the baseline.
Even with the enactment of those rules, Democrats have hardly delivered on their promises. The ``Congressional Pig Book'' is one compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2008 Pig Book identified 11,610 projects that cost a total of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2008.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hassett&sid=aRvCYI4iGAA8
Dems promised in 06 they would cut the pork (they also promised they would lower gas prices)
Why are voters listening to the Dems when they have given nothing more then a one finger salute to the voters on so many issues?
Pork Projects Thrive in Democrats' Spending Scam: Kevin Hassett
Commentary by Kevin Hassett
In 2006, Democrats rode the ``Bridge to Nowhere'' to a congressional majority. The Republican Congress attempted to connect Ketchikan, Alaska, to Gravina Island -- a small island with a population of 50 -- with a bridge that would have been one of America's longest.
The $398 million project rightly became a public-relations disaster for Republicans, and may well have been the primary cause of the Republican defeat in 2006. Voters were furious that elected officials would show such little respect for public money.
Playing on those feelings, Democrats promised to end wasteful spending and enacted strict ``paygo,'' or pay as you go, rules that would prohibit policy changes that increase the deficit relative to the baseline.
Even with the enactment of those rules, Democrats have hardly delivered on their promises. The ``Congressional Pig Book'' is one compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2008 Pig Book identified 11,610 projects that cost a total of $17.2 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2008.
http://www.bloomberg.com/apps/news?pid=20601039&refer=columnist_hassett&sid=aRvCYI4iGAA8