You can find this info on factcheck.org.:
"Earmarks Down, Not Up
McCain was way off the mark when he said that earmarks in federal
appropriations bills had tripled in the last five years.
McCain: But the point is that – you see, I hear this all the time.
"It's only $18
billion." Do you know that it's tripled in the last five years?
In fact, earmarks have actually gone down. According to Citizens
Against Government Waste, there was $22.5 billion worth of earmark
spending in 2003. By 2008, that figure had come down to $17.2 billion.
That's a decrease of 24 percent.
Taxpayers for Common Sense, another watchdog group, said in 2008 that
"Congress has cut earmarks by 23 percent from the record 2005 levels,"
according to its analysis."
If McCain weren't so pathetic, this would be laughable. McCain's whole
economic campaign rests on earmarks and how he's going to fight them.
He's too old to even know the facts! The Democrats took over the House
in 2006 and from a record HIGH in 2005 have cut earmarks by 23
percent.
McCain's Republican party, in sole power of all three branches of the
federal government from 2000 to 2006, has increased the national debt
from $5 TRILLION to $11 TRILLION, including the $700 BILLION for the
greedy Wall Street bastards.
OK, dufus McCain, all the earmarks magically disappear, even the ones
for the senior citizens centers. What now, you idiot?
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