Text 18205, 139 rader
Skriven 2006-03-11 09:51:00 av BOB SAKOWSKI (1:123/140)
     Kommentar till en text av JEFF BINKLEY
Ärende: Fiscal responsibility
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-=> JEFF BINKLEY wrote to BOB SAKOWSKI <=-

 BS>JB> What he is saying is that he doesn't know.
 BS>
 BS>Ah, like cockroaches since time immemorial, Binkley strikes
 BS>again.  FTR, he knows.
 BS>
 BS>JB> He pulled this from a left wing bomb throwing website


 BS>http://www.adn.com/news/politics/story/7411269p-7323275c.html

 BS>Anchorage Daily News:

 BS>[snip]
 BS>McCain, though, says the appropriations committees are out of
 BS>control on earmarks. Between 1994 and 2004, the number of
 BS>home-district earmarks in appropriations bills jumped from
 BS>4,000 to 14,000, according to the Congressional Research
 BS>Service. The earmarks in 1994 were worth about $29 billion,
 BS>compared to $52 billion a decade later.

 BS>Congressional earmarks for Alaska last year included more
 BS>than $450 million for the controversial bridges in Ketchikan
 BS>and across Knik Arm linking Anchorage to Mat-Su.
 BS>[snip]

 BS>Damn that left-wing John McCain.  Damn that left-wing Anchorage
 BS>Daily News.  Damn that left-wing Congressional Research Service.

 BS>====

 BS>http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,183601,00.html

 BS>Fox News:

 BS>[snip]
 BS>Earmarks, said Feinstein, are often "put in in the dark of night
 BS>by people who have substantial power and authority." There's no
 BS>question, Lott said at a news conference, "that the practice has
 BS>exploded over the years."

 BS>There were an estimated 14,000 earmarks or pork barrel projects
 BS>inserted into legislation in 2004, more than triple the number
 BS>of a decade earlier, according to one congressional study. The
 BS>value of these projects, ranging from highways to defense
 BS>contracts, was put at $52 billion, nearly double a decade earlier.
 BS>[snip]

 BS>Damn that left-wing Trent Lott.  Damn that left-wing Fox News.

 BS>===

 BS>http://www.rightpundit.net/index.php?p=611

 BS>The Right Pundit:

 BS>[snip]
 BS>However, when it comes to fighting unnecessary federal spending,
 BS>Senator McCain is one of few willing to wage the battle and he
 BS>should be applauded for that. Here is a letter he and Oklahoma
 BS>Senator Tom Coburn sent to Senate Majority Leader Bill Frist
 BS>on the profligately practice of “earmarks", a practice that
 BS>allows congressmen to obtain wasteful federal spending in
 BS>their home district without serious debate or disclosure.
 BS>(Hat tip: KLo at The Corner) Read the whole (short) letter,
 BS>but this excerpt gives you a good idea of what they plan
 BS>to do:

 BS> We are committed to doing all we can to halt this egregious
 BS> earmarking practice and plan to challenge future legislative
 BS> earmarks that come to the Senate floor. This will give all
 BS> Senators the opportunity to learn the merits of proposed
 BS> earmarked projects and affirm or reject them. Even though
 BS> votes on earmarks will undoubtedly be quite time-consuming,
 BS> we sincerely believe that American taxpayers are entitled
 BS> to a more thorough debate and disclosure about how their
 BS> money is being spent.

 BS>The most disturbing part of their letter is their research
 BS>revealed that in 1994 there were 4,126 “earmarksö while in
 BS>2005 there were 15,268. During that time Republicans were
 BS>in control of the House of Representatives all of the time
 BS>and the Senate most of the time. We elect Republicans to
 BS>limit spending, not to make sure there is plenty of spending
 BS>in our districts.
 BS>[snip]

 BS>Damn that left-wing Right Pundit.  Damn that left-wing Tom
 BS>Coburn.

 BS>===

 BS>http://www.theinternetparty.org/commentary/c_s.php?td=20010709&sectio
 BS>n_type=com

 BS>The Internet Party:
 BS>"The Internet Party is non-partisan. We support neither
 BS>Democrats nor Republicans.

 BS>We are a grassroots collection of individuals dedicated
 BS>to traditional American democracy: smaller, less intrusive
 BS>government with expanded individual rights and liberties."
 BS>
 BS>[snip]
 BS>The Washington Post reports:

 BS>    "House Republicans have requested 18,898 earmarks
 BS>    (targeted expenditures for home-district projects
 BS>    such as highways, dams, parks and museums) in the
 BS>    spending bills making their way through Congress.
 BS>    If all were approved, the cost would amount to
 BS>    $279 billion -- about the size of the Pentagon's
 BS>    annual budget."
 BS>[snip]



 BS>So you see Jeff, once more you prove just how full of
 BS>shit you and your fact free contributions truly are.

 BS>Be a good boy and crawl back under your rock.

 JB> None of this answers the question.  My comment remains.


 Au contraire my prevaricating respondent, you claimed the 
 news of earmarks came from "a left wing bomb throwing website" 
 so your "comment remains" is pure unadulterated bullshit.
 
 You've been busted. 
 
 
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