This article is much too high level to understand the local waste included in the Spending Bill just passed.$1.1 Trillion more! What in the world is wrong with the jerks in Congress -- both parties! I suppose when you merge your local bridges-to-nowhere projects into one that has $650B targeted to mandatory programs like Medicare and Medicaid, nobody questions a few Billion dollars elsewhere. But, I Do! First, $447B for departments' bidgets. Really? And this was necessary because? We will never know. Maybe to pay all the presidents czars and their staff! This is EXACTLY where CUTS should be made in this trying fiscal run-away train. The article did mention just a few waste projects on the 5000+ local projects: "It provides help for auto dealers facing closure, ends a ban on funding by the District of Columbia government for abortions and allows the district to permit medical marijuana, lets Amtrak passengers carry unloaded handguns in their checked baggage and permits detainees held at Guantanamo Bay to be transferred to the United States to stand trial, but not to be released."
It also mentioned "The bill also approves a 2 percent pay increase for federal workers." Now doesn't that chap me butt! Medicare recipients got 0% raise becasue cost-o-living was ZERO! But, ALL federal employees get 2%? They forgot to mention, as did Glenn Beck, that the number of federal employees with salaries over $170,000 is over 1700! Hypocrites!
Then, of course, the FINAL spending bill will be the Defense Bill. Now who will turn that down? There goes another $626 Billion they knew about but decided it was much more important to first vote in the waste projects.
The article also points out "The Citizens Against Government Waste said those projects included construction of a county farmer's market in Kentucky, renovation of a historic theater in New York and restoration of a mill in Rhode Island."
And We the People keep voting these jerks back into their cushy seats of Congress! When will we ever wake up? I suppose not until the several Trillion dollar health bill passes and we find ourselves in another oil crisis. I'm so glad I am atune to the chaos government,not just this administration, has and is causing us. Plan accordingly. We're nearing another blowout disguised as a false stock market bubble. The continued debt is not sustainable. The bubble will burst.
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