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Feb. 7th, 2009 07:19 pmIt's amazing how easy it is for lawmakers to take one good, single-minded idea and muck it up.
We started with "let's take a bunch of money and dump it into a bill to stimulate the economy."
We're now at this (taken from an AP story):
"The compromise reached between a handful of GOP moderates, the White House and its Senate allies stripped $108 billion in spending from Obama’s plan, including cutbacks in projects that likely would give the economy a quick lift, like $40 billion in aid to state governments for education and other programs.
Yet it retained items that also probably won’t help the economy much, such as $650 million to help people without cable receive digital signals through their old-fashioned televisions or $1 billion to fix problems with the 2010 Census."
Why do they always frickin' do this? Why must they pork everything up until it has nothing to do with the intent of the bill -- especially when we're in such a dire situation as this? WTF?
We started with "let's take a bunch of money and dump it into a bill to stimulate the economy."
We're now at this (taken from an AP story):
"The compromise reached between a handful of GOP moderates, the White House and its Senate allies stripped $108 billion in spending from Obama’s plan, including cutbacks in projects that likely would give the economy a quick lift, like $40 billion in aid to state governments for education and other programs.
Yet it retained items that also probably won’t help the economy much, such as $650 million to help people without cable receive digital signals through their old-fashioned televisions or $1 billion to fix problems with the 2010 Census."
Why do they always frickin' do this? Why must they pork everything up until it has nothing to do with the intent of the bill -- especially when we're in such a dire situation as this? WTF?
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