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Pork, It’s Not Just for Breakfast
We continue to examine the “earmarks” in the HHS / Labor Appropriations bill. This time, via the Porkbusters’ database, we can sort by amount. You know, the tax dollars squeezed from us, the taxpayers so that our employees, known as Congressmen, can secretly and without accountability fund projects for friends, benefactors, contributors, and such. As the first item amply demonstrates, it also is not considered inappropriate to give our tax dollars to projects bearing your own name. You can also sort the database by project, thus giving the viewer a nice collection of “earmarks” going to the same place. Yale University, for example, does quite well, especially considering the tuition it charges and the endowment it has. If these items are not pork, why aren’t they introduced publicly by the Congressman responsible? … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Commentary, Government, Limited Government, Original writing, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
White Gold
Heree’s an interesting tale of how our “farm subsidies” hurt other farmers. BBC n a landscape scattered with mud houses, donkeys and carts, under the clearest of clear blue skies, Mr Moussa explains how his seven-hectare cotton farm brings in 500,000 CFA a year, helping him care for his three wives and seven children. At harvest time, cotton buyers negotiate their trucks on these mud tracks, eager to get the cotton, which the Burkinabe people call white gold, to market. But earning the money he needs to keep his family fed, clothed and in school is getting harder as cotton prices fall. Three years ago, he got 210 CFA per kilo of cotton. In the year ahead, he expects to get 165 CFA per kilo. Mr Moussa sees only one reason for lower cotton prices, namely … Read entire article »
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Louise, You Let Us Down
The House is on record about earmarks, and it is not pretty. Andy Roth at the Club for Growth has the votes, all 19 of them. Louise Slaughter, D-NY 28, voted to kill two of them and to support the spending of seven of them. She did not vote on four of them. First of all, I thought we paid her to vote. Odds are she would have voted wrong, to support the pork, but not voting is just plain wrong by itself. Here are the votes. House Vote 190 – Dairy education in Iowa ($229,000) House Vote 191 – Hydroponic tomato production in Ohio ($180,000) House Vote 192 – National Grape and Wine Initiative ($100,000) House Vote 204 – Virginia Science Museum ($250,000) House Vote 205 – Juniata Locomotive Demonstration ($1,000,000) House Vote 277 – Swimming … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Congress, Government, Limited Government, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
It’s My Money!
Support the movement to cut the pork from the budget. All the news at the link above. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Government, Limited Government, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
It’s My Money!
Support the movement to cut the pork from the budget. All the news at the link above. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Government, Limited Government, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
It’s My Money!
Support the movement to cut the pork from the budget. All the news at the link above. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Government, Limited Government, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
Taking, not Giving
The President has issued an Executive Order to counter the Kelo decision at the Federal level. I’m not sure if it is just show or if it really matters. The majority of the problems are at the local and state levels. White House By the authority vested in me as President by the Constitution and the laws of the United States of America, and to strengthen the rights of the American people against the taking of their private property, it is hereby ordered as follows: Section 1. Policy. It is the policy of the United States to protect the rights of Americans to their private property, including by limiting the taking of private property by the Federal Government to situations in which the taking is for public use, with just compensation, and for … Read entire article »
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It’s My Money!
Support the movement to cut the pork from the budget. All the news at the link above. … Read entire article »
Filed under: American Politics, Government, Limited Government, Politics, Pork Busters, Taxation
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5 Constitutional Changes That Must Happen
February 12th, 2009 | Comments Off
Business as usual. Politics as usual. The Federal Government has become an entrenched political class. They have passed laws and implemented regulations that favor the incumbent politician and make politics a matter of power and not service to the nation. There are five changes to the Constitution that could break this pattern. TERM LIMITS The Founders laid out a series of term lengths for our elected representatives which serve to vary the time spent in office between elections. Members of the House serve two years at a time while Senators serve six. The President and Vice President serve a term of four years. There are no limits on how many terms a member of Congress may serve. The 22nd Amendment to the Constitution limits the President to being elected twice, for a total of … Read entire article »
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