Before the children and elderly starve....
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Bfgrn
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Originally Posted by Return of Dune
I assume all this pork was passed only by the vote of democrats, which is why you posted this?
Obama says Republican Congresses used lots of earmarks
Certainly under the Republicans there was a big rise in earmarks. The high mark was fiscal 2005, the last fiscal year before Democrats won control, when Congress passed bills with approximately 16,000 earmarks.
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Have Republicans REALLY changed?
Congress pontificated against earmarks, then then packed bill with pork
Dec 18 2010
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: Still the prince of pork (AP)
More than two dozen senators — most of them Republicans — put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 trillion bill to fund the federal government even though they recently voted to ban so-called earmarks.
The effort to pass the 1,924-page bill collapsed Thursday night after complaints by conservatives over its complexity and size and the relatively few days to be devoted to debating its merits. Anti-spending tea party activists were angry, too, especially since they had helped propel Republicans to big gains in the midterm elections.
A handful of Republican senators needed to advance the massive measure withdrew their support for the bill, leaving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., little recourse but to pull it back.
Still, the bill’s $8 billion in earmarks showed that some GOP senators voicing outrage over the measure had made no effort to dump their own pet projects. The earmark-free approach to legislation that had been promised by 39 Republicans and Democrats, though their pledge came well after work had begun on the measure.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, for example, said he’s unalterably opposed to the bill, but it still had $85 million of his earmarks, including $18 million for a railhead upgrade at Fort Knox and a $3 million infantry squad battle course at Fort Campbell. All told, McConnell obtained 38 earmarks, according to a database put together by the office of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
The bill and accompanying reports contained 6,714 earmarks costing $8.3 billion, Coburn said. Twenty-three Republicans and four Democrats who had voted for the immediate ban on earmarks ended up with pet projects in the bill.
At a news conference Wednesday, Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, assaulted the bill, but then reporters questioned why they had earmarks in the measure.
Thune backed 17 earmarks for $23 million, including $500,000 for a terminal expansion at the Rapid City airport and $1 million for improvements to state route 73 in Jackson County.
“I support those projects, but I don’t support this bill,” Thune said.
Cornyn obtained numerous earmarks as well, including $110,000 for the Texas State Technical College and $500,000 for a wastewater plant in Edinburg, Texas.
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I assume all this pork was passed only by the vote of democrats, which is why you posted this?
Obama says Republican Congresses used lots of earmarks
Certainly under the Republicans there was a big rise in earmarks. The high mark was fiscal 2005, the last fiscal year before Democrats won control, when Congress passed bills with approximately 16,000 earmarks.
More
Have Republicans REALLY changed?
Congress pontificated against earmarks, then then packed bill with pork
Dec 18 2010
Sen. Minority Leader Mitch McConnell: Still the prince of pork (AP)
More than two dozen senators — most of them Republicans — put hundreds of homestate projects in the $1.3 trillion bill to fund the federal government even though they recently voted to ban so-called earmarks.
The effort to pass the 1,924-page bill collapsed Thursday night after complaints by conservatives over its complexity and size and the relatively few days to be devoted to debating its merits. Anti-spending tea party activists were angry, too, especially since they had helped propel Republicans to big gains in the midterm elections.
A handful of Republican senators needed to advance the massive measure withdrew their support for the bill, leaving Senate Majority Leader Harry Reid, D-Nev., little recourse but to pull it back.
Still, the bill’s $8 billion in earmarks showed that some GOP senators voicing outrage over the measure had made no effort to dump their own pet projects. The earmark-free approach to legislation that had been promised by 39 Republicans and Democrats, though their pledge came well after work had begun on the measure.
Senate Republican leader Mitch McConnell of Kentucky, for example, said he’s unalterably opposed to the bill, but it still had $85 million of his earmarks, including $18 million for a railhead upgrade at Fort Knox and a $3 million infantry squad battle course at Fort Campbell. All told, McConnell obtained 38 earmarks, according to a database put together by the office of Sen. Tom Coburn, R-Okla.
The bill and accompanying reports contained 6,714 earmarks costing $8.3 billion, Coburn said. Twenty-three Republicans and four Democrats who had voted for the immediate ban on earmarks ended up with pet projects in the bill.
At a news conference Wednesday, Sens. John Thune, R-S.D., and John Cornyn, R-Texas, assaulted the bill, but then reporters questioned why they had earmarks in the measure.
Thune backed 17 earmarks for $23 million, including $500,000 for a terminal expansion at the Rapid City airport and $1 million for improvements to state route 73 in Jackson County.
“I support those projects, but I don’t support this bill,” Thune said.
Cornyn obtained numerous earmarks as well, including $110,000 for the Texas State Technical College and $500,000 for a wastewater plant in Edinburg, Texas.
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Bfgrn
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There are millions of people without a 'degree' who are highly skilled...BTW, WHAT does ' degreed' mean...they had greed exorcized?
you aren't one of them being a traveling salesman
unemployment is under 6% for college grads and skilled tradesman, not so good for GED salesman
Bfgrn
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Is that what you FEEL? Do you have anything to back that up other than your 'emotes' and ignorant name calling?
Dixie - In Memoriam
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Why are you pinheads muttering and whining about "earmarks" in this thread? My OP wasn't about "earmarks" and I don't know that anything I listed was an actual "earmark" ...several things were part of the stimulus package, which many would argue was one giant "earmark" but a lot of the stuff was funded with it's own legislation, not "earmarked" in other legislation. This thread isn't about who is more guilty of "earmark" spending, it's about saving the starving old people and children when we HAVE to make the drastic cuts in the budget. Pinheads making some perverse point about "earmarks" isn't going to put food in the belly of the poor or elderly, is it?
Bfgrn
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Sales is one of the few jobs that can't be outsourced. Even a child could figure that out. Maybe you have no comprehension of what sales is.
Dixie - In Memoriam
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But sales most certainly CAN be outsourced. In fact, the vast majority of telemarketing sales is done by phone, via India.
Bfgrn
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Telemarketing sales is not most sales. I'm talking about direct sales.
Why are you so fucking dull?
Mr. T
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Who remembers this idiotic study?
I'm sure we can add on more stories of wasteful spending. Please indulge.
Government studies shrimp endurance on a treadmill
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Government studies shrimp endurance on a treadmill
(your tax dollars at work)
A scathing report from Senator Tom Coburn has identified $3 billion of mismanagement at the National Science Foundation. The report finds that the foundation has squandered billions on questionable studies, poor cost controls, duplicative research, and many other forms of mismanagement.
Some of the scientifically urgent projects include:
- $560,000 to have shrimp run on a treadmill to test their endurance. I know it's very important to me how my dinner performed on a treadmill during its living years.
- $1.5 million to create a robot that can fold laundry. This robot was able to fold one towel in 25 minutes. Come on, even I can fold 2 or 3 towels in the same time.
- $315,000 to study whether Farmville helps adults develop and maintain relationships.
- $80,000 to conclude that successful college basketball programs tend to recruit better players. Who knew?
- $2 million to determine that the same people who post photos at the same place at the same time are probably socially connected. Since I don't have a science degree I couldn't have guessed that.
This is only a fraction of the waste and mismanagement at this single agency. You would think that a government facing a $1.5 trillion deficit might take steps to spend its money wisely.
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I'm sure we can add on more stories of wasteful spending. Please indulge.
Government studies shrimp endurance on a treadmill
Thursday, May 26, 2011
Government studies shrimp endurance on a treadmill
(your tax dollars at work)
A scathing report from Senator Tom Coburn has identified $3 billion of mismanagement at the National Science Foundation. The report finds that the foundation has squandered billions on questionable studies, poor cost controls, duplicative research, and many other forms of mismanagement.
Some of the scientifically urgent projects include:
- $560,000 to have shrimp run on a treadmill to test their endurance. I know it's very important to me how my dinner performed on a treadmill during its living years.
- $1.5 million to create a robot that can fold laundry. This robot was able to fold one towel in 25 minutes. Come on, even I can fold 2 or 3 towels in the same time.
- $315,000 to study whether Farmville helps adults develop and maintain relationships.
- $80,000 to conclude that successful college basketball programs tend to recruit better players. Who knew?
- $2 million to determine that the same people who post photos at the same place at the same time are probably socially connected. Since I don't have a science degree I couldn't have guessed that.
This is only a fraction of the waste and mismanagement at this single agency. You would think that a government facing a $1.5 trillion deficit might take steps to spend its money wisely.
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PostmodernProphet
fully immersed in faith..
okay, TopSpin just outed himself......
The dude could never sport dreadlocks