Tom Harkin announces…
February 27, 2009 4 Comments
I have checked on news from Citizens Against Government Waste. Their website is very interesting and informative- if you have the stomach to read their figures and absorb in yet one more place what our elected officials are doing with taxpayer money to the detriment of America.
http://www.cagw.org/site/News2?page=NewsArticle&id=11892
From the Citizens Against Government Waste website:
“CAGW will work with President Obama and anyone else that wants to cut waste, fraud and abuse. But it is simply not credible to promise to cut the deficit in half while Congress and this administration are spending money faster than at any time in history. The combined total of the stimulus and the omnibus will be $1.197 trillion, without adding interest on the debt. Congress has been in session for 30 days, meaning members have agreed to spend $40 billion per day,” Schatz concluded.
Citizens Against Government Waste is a nonpartisan, nonprofit organization dedicated to eliminating waste, fraud, mismanagement and abuse in government.
Now news from a formerly named CAGW “Porker of the Month”, Iowa’s Tom Harkin. I give you highlights from Harkin’s website:
Feb. 24- 26, 2009
HARKIN ANNOUNCES:
more than 4 million for Fema Funding…
nearly 8 million for Housing…
nearly $200,000 for UNI…
$350,000 for Des Moines Airport…
more than $27 million for Housing programs…
nearly 19 million for Housing Assistance…
helps secure more than $56 million for Initiatives…
44 million for initiatives…
Also able to secure more than $85 million…
“More than/nearly”- and what he “secured” listed in a span of 3 days.
Tom Harkin, bringing home the bacon/porkulus/spendulus money for Iowans.
It’s what voters want when they elect him over, and over, and over, right?
Tom Harkin in your billfold and in mine. Except, I have not ever voted for this Ultra-Liberal Big Spender. I have a hunch that Our Visiting Senator is just getting warmed up and all Iowa taxpayers will be in for more money coming out of our pay checks. If there is many of us left who work in order to pay for the give aways.
Let me type it again:
“Congress has been in session for 30 days, meaning members have agreed to spend $40 billion per day.”
Another misrepresentation/halftruth from Obama: He is promising to cut the deficit in half but what he doesn’t tell you is that first he is going to double it so we will be lucky if it comes back to what it is now.
Score one for neighhaay. Budget talk always involves smoke and mirrors and this is Obama’s contribution.
But it’s hard to hold it against him in light of the sheer honesty in the rest of the budget. I mean like putting the cost of the wars into the budget for the first time, or admitting that the AMT always gets changed (so its dishonest to pretend tax revenues will be higher than we know they will be). Why couldn’t Bush do those things?
I think the national debt counter just spun so fast that it seized up and smoke is rolling out of it now. Its adding up so fast H&R Block cant tally it up in their lifetimes.
The reason that Obama is driving the deficit up so high right now is so that in four years when he cuts it again he can say that he cut the deficit even though it will be higher than it is now.