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The GOP Answers Obama's Fuzzy Math with ... Fuzzy Math!

By Doug Bandow on 2.23.09 @ 5:31PM

The House Appropriations Committee just posted its $410 billion 2009 Omnibus spending bill. It's a doozy. This is the bill that will fund the government's operations until the end of the fiscal year. It's larded with thousands (so many, I can't count them all yet) of earmarks and adds up an increase in overall discretionary spending of more than 8 percent, the biggest one year increase since 1978 (with the exception of the spending boost after the September 11 attacks).

And this is a bi-partisan feeding frenzy. Roughly 40 percent of the money for earmarks (i.e. pet projects inserted by individual lawmakers) have been inserted by Republicans.

Don't these people ever learn?

Comments

Deborah| 2.24.09 @ 5:00AM

I keep wondering if there is even one politician in Washington, D.C. who actually believes in the country anymore. Is there one "public servant" who is concerned about the future of the country and not the future of his/her job. I believe one must have to be a sociopath (or a lawyer, but that's pretty redundant) in order to go into and remain in politics. How do these folks look at themselves in the mirror?