The Truth About Earmarks

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Registered: 09-06-2008
The Truth About Earmarks
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Wed, 09-10-2008 - 4:37pm
(this may also satisfy ciara's curiosity from an earlier thread):

John Cole (a conservative, former GOP voter) reminds us what's at stake, and why "earmarks" are a pretty small piece of the puzzle:
The total national debt, as I write this, is $9,679,000,000,000.00 (nine and a half trillion).



The Budget for 2008 is close to $3,000,000,000,000.00 (three trillion).



Our budget deficit for this year is going to range in between $400-500,000,000,000.00 (four hundred to five hundred billion, give or take a few billion).



The total value of wasteful earmarks in 2008 (according to CAGW) will be approximately $18,000,000,000.00 (eighteen billion).



In other words, when McCain talks about earmarks, he is talking about 3% of our annual budget deficit, .6% of our annual budget, and a number too small to even report when discussing our national debt. Or, put another way, he is talking about two months in Iraq, something he wants to keep going indefinitely.



Not only are they lying about Palin’s involvements with earmarks, they are just not being serious about the horrible economic problems we face. These are not serious people.


Exactly right.

Now in darkness, world stops turning
Ashes where the bodies burning
No more war pigs have the power
Hand of God has sturck the hour
Day of judgement, God is calling
On their knees, the war pigs crawling Begging

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Registered: 10-25-2006
Fri, 09-12-2008 - 9:34pm

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OHHHHHHH, and I guess she considers earmark ABUSE to be any request that's not for Alaska!

If that's what she said, she's the first politician I've heard distinguish between good and bad earmarks. I wonder what McCain thinks of that!

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Registered: 08-29-2008
Sat, 09-13-2008 - 8:08am
McCain rails all the time about the stupid earmarks that come up like the study of the DNA of bears. I don't think with the severe weather that you get in Alaska that money for roads and infrastructure compares. Do you?

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