Wow this is a really nice blog…

Excellent idea. I will try it….

I think you have a really nice site….

I’ve gotten some nice e-mails from you folks in the wake of my Steve Irwin post the other day. Maybe I’ll share some of them with you in a day or two. Until then, though, I will answer one question……

Heh. Ham on pork…….

I agree, but these projects seemed alot more reasonable in costs there were a bunch of communities being helped at 200,000 to 400,000 a pop and this is the type of Federal Spending that most directly aids the American People.

Getting them to stop spending billions on aircraft carriers that havent sunk a warship since Leyte Gulf in 44 might be a start and tanks that require 16 maintenance personnel each as well as 40 million in ammo may be another start
(I.m not saying not to have any, just we have 10 at sea 9 in mothballs, 2 more being funded why do we need more carriers when the rest of the world has 2 (France and Russia)

Quite sending social security checks to those who never paid in the system could save a bit as well.

The representatives who fight for federal dollars for their districts are doing it for their district. isn’t that what we elect them to do?

Sure. But let’s have it done in the open. Secrecy is fine in national security, but it has no place in appropriations. If the Congresscritters are doing us such good service, we ought to know all about it.

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Amen,

I’ll chose the let’s roll crowd over the let’s surrender crowd

Also, Pork busting is fine but in the case of two states I looked at, there were grants to charitable medical organizations for xray equipment, medicine, not services or monuments to politicians also Oklahoma’s grant was almost as much as Rangels Grant to himself. (Oklahoma’s was 100% for medical equipment and records storage not useless crap)

Now the point could be that everyone should pay their own medical expenses – thats another argument but this is not checks to displaced people and welfare receipients working cash jobs off the books either.

“A Republican administration that is not fiscally responsible is no different than a Democratic one.”

Yes, they are still VERY different. The republican one is far less likely to believe that killing babies in the womb is some sort of “right” hidden in the Constitution that only they can find, far less likely to believe that the first amendment applies to everything from internet pornography to terrorists privacy during phone conversations while believing at the same time that THEY need to totally regulate or ignore the second, far less likely to believe that the REAL threat to the United States is Christianity while capitulating to Islamic terrorists, far less likely to believe that brainwashing young minds by teaching them that evolution theory is not only a “fact” but actually is “real science”, far less likely to put judges on the bench who subscribe to the goofy notions that heinous criminals just need to be rehabilitated and that homosexuals pedophiles are just practicing some other “valid” lifestyle that we need to accept, far less likely to think that Freedom and Liberty is just something that others will “give” you for free if you are nice enough to them, far less likely to believe that stealing other peoples money in higher taxes “stimulates” our economy, far less likely to embrace anti democratic governments or hostile dictatorships as “valid” Nations that the United States and the rest of the free world need understand and aid, far less likely to vote for something before they vote against it, far less likely to waste taxpayers money on attempting to make environmental changes that mankind cannot even begin to control, far less likely to use race as a bait, far less likely to sell their own Country out and become seditious traitors, and on and on and on and on.

I’ve had a hard time getting worked up over the Porkbusters project. In case you hadn’t heard about it, it’s an effort by bloggers all over the spectrum to locate hidden spending in congressional appropriations and to put an end ……

-FatOldGuy

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Your pork is my necessity.

pullingmyhairout on August 22, 2006 at 2:13 PM

Yup. In 5 words or less. This pretty much sums up the problem.