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"the auroran sunset" |
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11 May 2006 10:49:01 AM |
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greedy senators try to pork the troops |
President Bush has given a $94.4 billion spending bill to Congress. The bill
contains approximately $72.4 billion for troops in Iraq and Afghanistan,
$19.6 billion for hurricane relief and $2.4 billion for avian flu response.
Bush has promised to veto the bill should the Congress try to pad the bill
beyond that $94.4 billion.
Despite this, the pork-barons in Congress have added $14 billion for such
worthy causes as "$608 million to facilitate a casino/condo-based
redevelopment scheme in Mississippi, $3.4 billion in additional farm
subsidies, $967 million for fisheries assistance, $516 million in unrelated
highway aid, and even $17 million for AmeriCorps".
Tom Coburn (Republican) and other honourable senators attempted to strip the
bill of this brazen corruption, but were voted down. Now 35 senators have
signed a statement saying they will support the use of the presidential veto
for this now hijacked bill.
In an attempt to hang onto their pork, the "appropriators" have a new
proposal: cut Bush's spending for the troops, for hurricane relief and for
avian flu response by 13.2%, so that when their $14 billion of graft is
added, the bill is magically still within the $94.4 billion limit.
That's $9.6 billion they propose to steal from our soldiers. That's $2.6
billion they propose to steal from the poor, hard-hit by hurricane Katrina.
That's $304 million they propose to steal from measures to prevent a flu
epidemic that could kill millions.
Most of this added pork comes from Senators from the states worse hit by the
Katrina hurricane - eg. Frist of Tennessee (Republican), Lott of Mississippi
(Republican) & Cochran of Mississippi (Republican). In other words they are
not looking after their constituents back home, as they claim when trying to
justify their rank corruption, rather they are trying to screw their
constituents out of relief in order to fill their friends' pockets.
Not only are they porking their constituents, they are also porking the
troops by using money put aside for the armed forces as backhanders to their
friends. Sixty years ago we had a word for such people: they were called
"war-profiteers".
Adapted from this very badly written and unclear item in the Washington
Times.
http://www.washingtontimes.com/commentary/20060510-092308-1471r.htm
to infinity and beyond.
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| User: "the auroran sunset" |
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| Title: Re: greedy senators try to pork the troops |
11 May 2006 01:57:13 PM |
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On Thu, 11 May 2006 17:49:01 +0200, the auroran sunset wrote
(in article <0001HW.C089298D013AE650F0305530@news.individual.net>):
Most of this added pork comes from Senators from the states worse hit by the
Katrina hurricane - eg. Frist of Tennessee (Republican),
it appears i have misread. frist is one of the senators signing the document
pledging support for bush should he veto the bill. however badly written the
washington times article may be, there is no excuse for this sort of
sloppiness. sorry mr.frist.
to infinity and beyond.
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the auroran sunset / tithonus / fennel
personal website: http://www.aoiko.net/
party: http://www.emancipationparty.org/
work: http://www.abelard.org/
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