Anyone want to spend $2.7 Million for surgical operations in space? How about $1.6 Million for a tram to the Huntsville Botanical Garden? No, well then, I’m sure you’d want $1.3 Million of your hard-earned tax dollars to go to the UC Davis study of delta smelt breeding patterns? Just kidding. But this from Fox News isn’t:
Mixed in are more than 5,000 earmarks totaling $3.9 billion, according to watchdog Taxpayers for Common Sense.
Pork-watchers are only just beginning to sort through the earmarks, which typically are goodies set aside for the districts of members of Congress, as the bill tracks toward a final vote. So far, they've uncovered gems ranging from $700,000 for a shrimp fishing project in Maryland to $30,000 for the Woodstock Film Festival Youth Initiative to $200,000 for a visitor's center in a Texas town with a population of about 8,000.
“Let’s stop the madness,” House Republican Leader John Boehner said, before the bill passed without any GOP support. Twenty-eight House Democrats also opposed it.
via FOXNews.com – Watchdogs Cry Foul Over Thousands of Earmarks in Spending Bill.
Seems that neither Congressional Democrats nor Obama have any concept of whose money they are spending-sorry, waisting, how hard we work for it, that we’re in financially difficult times, and that they don’t know what the hell they are doing! Yeah, Pelosi, Reid and Obama promised that earmarks would be a thing of the past. Seems like it’s back to the future!
Tom Motherway