Congress Is Full Of Bold-Faced Liars
What’s the only thing worse than Republicans on a spending spree? Democrats on a spending spree. Or maybe Republicans on a spending spree when they know the Democrats are going to take the heat. Either way, your representatives in Washington D.C. are a bunch of dirty filthy liars.
The 2008 Pig Book is out, and even though Republicans and Democrats promised to cut back on the earmarks, they have done the exact opposite. The people we picked to handle our money wrote fat checks for 11,610 pork-barrel projects. The earmark reforms Congress passed last year didn’t count for much apparently. 17.2 billion dollars of your money went to pay for only God knows what.
How The Candidates Did
John McCain didn’t play the earmark game, and I applaud him for being associated with zero earmarks. His home state of Arizona, which is where I live, received the lowest amount of earmarked money with about 90 Million. By comparison, Alaska received the most with a whopping 380 Million. Apparently they didn’t learn from the “bridge to nowhere” fiasco.
Senator Obama had 53 earmarks, to the tune of about 97 Million Dollars. Senator Hillary Clinton had 281 earmarks, for which you and I paid about 296 Million. The McCain campaign will get some good shots in with those numbers, and rightfully so.
Yes, You Can Do Something About This
I don’t know about the rest of you, but I just don’t have any respect for these people any longer. How can the people who are supposed to be running the country on our behalf do such a crappy job and lie about it when the facts are so obvious. In 2004 the Democrats took control of congress promising to fix the earmark problem. Instead of fixing it, they are doing their best to outdo the spending of the Republican controlled congress before them. This isn’t a partisan problem, it’s a problem all Americans need to be aware of, and take action to fix.
Take the time today, right now, to write to your representatives and let them know how you feel about what they are doing. You have one person in the House of Representatives, and two Senators. The only way they’re going to stop spending like drunken sailors is if you and I take ten minutes to tell them what we think. They still need our votes to get elected, so what you say really does matter to them.
Just don’t let them tempt you with any earmark money.
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