Ah, but that's the game, isn't it? Make an 800 page bill, give no one time to dig into it, and then claim it's not pork. It stinks like the Potomac River at low tide during a full moon.
Here is a little sample of local project requests from WSJ: http://online.wsj.com/article/SB122887075956093233.html Hercules, Calif., wants $2.5 million in hard-earned taxpayer money for a "Waterfront Duck Pond Park," and another $200,000 for a dog park. - Euless, Texas, wants $15 million for the Midway Park Family Life Center, which, you'll be glad to note, includes both a senior center and aquatic facility. - Natchez, Miss., "needs" a new $9.5 million sports complex "which would allow our city to host major regional and national sports tournaments." - Henderson, Nev., is asking for $20 million to help "develop a 60 acre multi-use sports field complex." - Brigham City, Utah, wants $15 million for a sports park. - Arlington, Texas, needs $4 million to expand its tennis center. - Miami, Fla., needs $15 million for a "Moore Park Community Center, Tennis Center and Day Care" facility. The city is also desperate for $3.6 million to build a covered basketball court and a new tennis court at Robert King High Park. Then there's the $94 million Orange Bowl parking garage you are being asked to pay for. - La Porte, Texas, wants $7.6 million for a "Life Style Center." And Oakland, Calif., needs $1 millionfor Fruitvale Latino Cultural and Performing Arts Center. And last but not least, here are a couple of Democrats in Congress saying that pork in the stimulus bill doesn't matter: David Obey: http://sayanythingblog.com/entry/angry_democrat_on_pork_in_the_stimulus_bill_so_what/ and my personal favorite, Charles Schumer: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JEfICUoWKBw So, either you are lying or you are in an Obama Kool-Aid induced stupor and can't tell fact from fiction. On Tue, Feb 10, 2009 at 11:01 AM, Gruss wrote: > > > RoMunn wrote: > > > > They should not vote for it because the bill is a pork fest > > Since you keep repeating this hyperbolic narrative: > > * Detail the specific plans you think are pork > > ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~| Adobe® ColdFusion® 8 software 8 is the most important and dramatic release to date Get the Free Trial http://ad.doubleclick.net/clk;207172674;29440083;f Archive: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/message.cfm/messageid:288000 Subscription: http://www.houseoffusion.com/groups/cf-community/subscribe.cfm Unsubscribe: http://www.houseoffusion.com/cf_lists/unsubscribe.cfm?user=11502.10531.5
