President Bush signed a spending bill today for $555 billion, despite voicing his disappointment in Congress for adding 10,000 earmarks totaling more than $10 billion in additional spending. If you do the math, that’s an average of more than $1 million per pet project!
On a brighter note, Bush administration officials, including former Rep. Jim Nussle (R-IA), may be looking for some creative ways to prevent funding of many of those earmarks. I doubt much will come of it though. If Bush was really committed to ending Pork, he could have vetoed the bill and demanded a clean one (and he could have done that any number of times when Republicans ran Congress).
Still, a guy can hope… We’re already $9 trillion in debt and Congress continues to mortgage the future of my generation and those to follow for their own political expediency now.
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Not sure how young you are but, at 53, it is my generation mortgaging our kids’ future. When the Baby Boomers hit Social Security full tilt, I hope our kids finally rebel and lock down the free-spending, including (gasp!) putting a means test on Social Security payments and turning Medicare into a (shudder) HMO. The Baby Boomers have been using Social Security and Medicare for welfare for decades, it’s time we got stuck with what we sowed.
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