and that is $17 billion too much. McCain fights against earmarks, barry holds his hand out and takes em.
Gaar wrote: > On Sep 27, 1:49�pm, J <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > 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." > > > Yet they don't cite the 2005 levels... > > http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Federal_budget_(United_States) > > An estimated 16,000 earmarks containing nearly $48 billion in spending > were inserted into larger, often unrelated bills during 2005. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ Thanks for being part of "PoliticalForum" at Google Groups. For options & help see http://groups.google.com/group/PoliticalForum * Visit our other community at http://www.PoliticalForum.com/ * It's active and moderated. Register and vote in our polls. * Read the latest breaking news, and more. -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
