Appropriations Porkie Pie

Omnibus Appropriations Package
A.K.A. Porkie Pot Pie #2 HR 1105

Congress boondoggles taxpayers by serving up epic appropriations pork pie

Adding new policy changes to appropriations packages is illegal according to Ethics in Government Act of 1978 and Title 18 of the US Code. But some frisky congressmen and senators have tossed those pesky regulations aside. To them, this legislation is a great opportunity to push into law and fund their most controversial pet programs which would otherwise get killed during debate. Since Obama is chomping at the bit to sign another massive spending package, Congress is is hoping the massive bill will get passed like the last one: In record time, full of pork, with no time to read.

So What does the latest $410,000,000 Bill Buy us? Here’s some highlights

• 8,570 known earmarks totaling more than $7.7 billion
• Foreign policy changes with Cuba
• Inviting select Palestinians to patriate to US
• A comprehensive expensive program to micro-chip every single turkey, chicken, goat, cow, horse, dog, cat, duck in the United States.
• $75 Million to Gaza strip run by Hamas
• $1.5 Billion to Egypt
• $500 Million to Jordan
• $20 Million to continue to ‘pretty up’ the White House and outfit it with state of the art flat screen TV’s, fancy lighting, sound systems and entertainment.
• $2 Million to control pig odor (no joke)
  

Why Don’t you tell your Senators today what you think about this bill?
Use this c-span tool to contact you reps today and read the legislation yourself
http://www3.capwiz.com/c-span/issues/bills/?billtype=H.R.&billnumb=1105&congress=111

FEB 3, 2008

ECONOMIC STIMULATION STYMIED!
The trillion dollar Stimulus Package on the Senate Floor is disgraceful. It is utterly loaded with special interest projects. It bloats the federal government to record levels without achieving its objective! America lost 2.6 million jobs in 2008 yet our congress has dedicated over a 1/4 of a billion dollars to special interests earmarks which have absolutely nothing to do with solving the current economic crisis.

A BUZZ IN HOLLYWOOD O’ER THE LAZY RIVER
How will Honey Bee insurance, Hollywood studio incentives and a program to update Mississippi River Computers jumpstart our economy and solve the mortgage crisis? It’s unfathomable that these senators and congressmen would load this bill up with junk and then vote in favor of it!! Sure the bill includes a few solid programs. But that pales in comparison to the amount of absolute PORK in there. We don’t have the cash to spend on these non essential projects. That’s tax payer money!

YO CONGRESS!
Draft a bill that achieves the need!!
We American people are struggling. We don’t need to fatten up our federal government and dole out gifts to special interest groups. We need to jumpstart the economy so banks will start lending again, so Americans can pay their mortgages and car payments and buy new shoes! Just how does pouring vast sums of money into the sex education class, a weather program build millions of jobs, and address the mortgage and housing markets crisis?

PLEASE SIGN THIS PETITION TO GET CONGRESS TO PRODUCE A BILL THAT SOLVES THE CRISIS
http://www.countryfirstpac.com/petition/economic.aspx

MISSED OPPORTUNITIES
This dreadful economic condition is a tremendous opportunity for our congress to put their interests aside and rebuild the economy. Instead they abused their power by loading it up with programs which do next to nothing to build jobs! Last year alone America lost 2.6 million jobs. Yet the best they can do with 1 trillion dollars is create 600,000 jobs, the lionshare of which are construction/back office federal jobs. Only 3% of the trillion dollars go to small business. Does that make sense? creating a grand total of 600,000 jobs while doing nothing to save the current jobs? How is that going to solve the economic condition when in January alone America lost 526,000 jobs?

MYSTERY ECONOMISTS DRINKING SOME POLITICAL KOOL-AID
Who exactly are these lawmakers consulting in their masterplan to jumpstart the economy? Certainly not Sachs or Rogoff.
You don’t need to be a world class economist to see that this bill will further entrench our county in a deep recession sending us careening toward a neo- depression. We tax payers don’t have the funds to sustain this mish-mash of projects. Lets call on congress to WORK for the American people!!

THE NEW NEW DEAL CREATES BIG BIG PROBLEMS
What turns a recession into a Great depression?

• higher taxes
• huge infrastructure projects
• massive government spending
• labor law changes
  

Winston Churchill said “Those who fail to heed the lessons of history will be doomed to repeat it.”

DEAR PRESIDENT
Read your history. Don’t repeat FDR’s mistakes. Learn from them and give an informed, thoughtful and balanced response to this crisis.