The House passed recently another stimulus bill called the Omnibus Spending Bill which is going to spend another $3.8 Billion during this economic crisis. Good news everyone, right??? WRONG!!!!! The problem with this bill, ironically similar to the massive Stimulus Bill passed a few weeks ago, is that it is loaded with blatent "earmarks". Call them "earmarks", "pork", "pork barrel spending", whatever you want to call it. Ill call it simply this....COMPLETE BULLSHIT AMERICA!!!!! THESE ARE NOTHING BUT BOLD FACE LIES TOLD STRAIGHT TO THE FACE OF AMERICAN CITIZENS!!! The actualy Omnibus bill includes, roughly around 9,246 earmarks. THATS 9,246 IF YOU MISSED THAT!!! Whats even worse is, as Glenn Beck pointed out, that both Democrats and Republicans are responsible for this. Its not just the liberals, in fact the leader of the GOP claimed that the democrats were responsible for 60% of the earmarks. The first thing I thought was aren't the Republicans responsible for the other 40%. And then Glenn says that exact same thing 30 seconds later!!! The Republicans are responsible for part of this bill, so all of you who think I am a right wing biased nut....I CRITICIZE BOTH SIDES!!!!! Sorry to rain on your parade, but I want the right thing to be done. These "Special Projects", as politicians love to call these, are WRONG!! And yet our politicians love to continue to do this to Americans, even after they have already led America to near ruin in these tough economic times. IT IS TIME TO DO THE RIGHT THING!!! Now heres the real kicker of this post....
Now most people see this and they say "Oh President Obama isnt going to do this", "He won't stand for this", "He's going to change this". You know what you have every right, just like I did, to believe he was going to change these practices. How many times on the campaign trail did we hear Obama claim that the days of Pork Barrel Spending were over??? That the practices of the past eight years (as he and everyone in the media loves to hear) are over??? He told us this America, right to your FACES!!! Now what is he doing, promoting another spending bill this time blatently loaded with pork!! The first Stimulus Bill, he just laughed off the remarks of "Special Projects" being contained in it, although the pork could easily be identified. Now we have another bill, adding to the tremedous debt that the next generation of Americans are going to face. This bill is clearly nothing but "Special Projects", actually the bill included some of the following:
- $190,000 Buffalo Bill Historical Center, Cody, WY for digitizing and editing the Cody collection.
- $950,000 Myrtle Beach International Trade and Convention Center
- $238,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society (this is for canoe trips...nice right??)
- a $950,000 nature education center in Moss Point, Miss
These are just some examples of what is contained in this new spending bill. All of these, along with the other 9,000 some other earmarks, were sponsered by Congressmen and women trying to get "Special Projects" for their state. In fact Glenn had on his show today, a list of some senators who sponsered some of these earmarks. There was at least 5 or 6 sponsered by Vice President Biden. And even more so, there was one that then Senator Obama sponsered, but as Glenn was later told....OBAMA'S NAME WAS BEING REMOVED FROM IT NOW THAT ITS BEEN PASSED!!!!! This President is nothing but a liar, and I cannot believe how stupid people are in this country that they are unwilling to see this. Obama promised us change, and now that he is President this is what he does. Has two massive Spending Bills passed within the first month and a half of his Presidency full of nothing but Pork. What's even worse, in his address to Congress, President Obama claimed that:
Everyone in this chamber — Democrats and Republicans — will have to sacrifice some worthy priorities for which there are no dollars. And that includes me.
And here's a few more quotes from President Obama two before he was elected and another as President:
SEPTEMBER 22, 2008: "The truth is, our earmark system in Washington is fraught with abuse. It badly needs reform — which is why I didn't request a single earmark last year, why I've released all my previous requests for the public to see, and why I've pledged to slash earmarks by more than half when I am president of the United States of America."
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008: "Absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
FEBRUARY 9, 2009: "But when they start characterizing this as pork, without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package — something, again, that was pretty rare over the last eight years"
SEPTEMBER 26, 2008: "Absolutely, we need earmark reform. And when I'm president, I will go line by line to make sure that we are not spending money unwisely."
FEBRUARY 9, 2009: "But when they start characterizing this as pork, without acknowledging that there are no earmarks in this package — something, again, that was pretty rare over the last eight years"
REALLY MR. OBAMA, REALLY??!?! THEN WHY, MR. PRESIDENT, ARE YOU PROMOTING MASSIVE SPENDING BILLS THAT ARE FULL OF NOTHING BUT PORK, AND SPECIAL INTEREST PROJECTS!?!?!? AND WHY AMERICA ARE YOU INCAPABLE OF SEEING THIS AND, EVEN WORSE, INCAPABLE OF USING YOUR CONSTITUTIONAL RIGHT TO SPEAK OUT AGAINST THIS ADMINISTRATION?!?!?!? Obama has done nothing but LIE to you America. He hid the foundation for universal health care in the fist one, then added the framework of his plan to the next Spending Bill. Yet, he claimed practices like this were going to change and these days of playing politics were OVER. Well, Mr. President you really are giving us change.....CHANGE FOR THE WORSE. Just wait America, things are going to get worse. We may be on our path to ultimate destruction, and it is up to us America, the PEOPLE OF THE UNITED STATES to stand up and defend our Constitutional Rights, not these politicians in Washington, especially BARACK OBAMA!! This is the only reason why I am writing this blog, as a hope that through my words and observations that I can at least influence even only a handful of Americans to stand up for what I want most. Its not a matter of parties, left or right, but it is a matter of defending the Constitution of the United States and the principles our great Founding Fathers gave us, in the hope that America can regain her founding principles and become great, like she once was. Again, we must all Join, or Die....

