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* The $1.6 million to study the genes of pigs. (No word on whether that includes the lipstick.)

* The $2, 499,400 that Obama wants to increase access to the food stamp program.

* The $550,000 for "highlighting the incredible world of aquatic biology" to Obama's constituents.

* The $5 million desperately needed for " highlighting the impact that individual men and women can have upon a civil society."

This kind of use of your taxpayer dollars surely gives you that warm feeling of wanting to "jump in" and be "patriotic" no? What about Joe? Ya gotta believe, folks, that ole Joe -- he who, with Obama, voted a couple hundred million plus to fund that famous Alaskan Bridge to Nowhere that Governor Palin killed, would be thrilled -- thrilled! -- to have his check put to use studying pig genes.

SHOULD YOU HOLD your breath here? There are 40-some odd days left to this campaign and Joe Biden has America's undivided attention. Isn't it time to ask the question directly of Senator Biden? To say that we have no question of his patriotism? To say that now is the time for Joe Biden to demonstrate the same kind of leadership and self-sacrifice to his fellow Americans with his persona l checkbook that Senator McCain once demonstrated with his very life to his fellow POWs?

Isn't time to ask of Senator Biden when he will pony up?

Just in case, so there's no mistake, once again here's the address where the Biden check raising his own taxes, made out to "The US Treasury" can be sent today:

p>Gifts to the United States br> U.S. Department of the Treasury br> Credit Accounting Branch br> 3700 East-West Highway, Room 622D br> Hyattsville, MD 20782 /p>

Isn't time for Joe Biden "to be part of the deal"?

Say it's so, Joe. Say it's so. And don't forget to let us all know.

Jeffrey Lord is a former Reagan White House political director and author. He writes from Pennsylvania.

topics:
Taxes, John McCain, Joe Biden, Earmarks, Law, NATO, Alaska