OMG!!! - OVER 9000 EARMARKS!!!

[lame54]

or less than 2% of the entire spending bill

The FDA allows 2% of insect filth in each can of apricots

Jon Stewart explains it all here:

http://www.thedailyshow.com/video/index.jhtml?videoId=220525&title=pet-projects

[liberal N proud]

1. To be exact

[Ian David]

2. And 40% of those earmarks are from Repukes who voted against the bill they put their earmarks into.

[lightningandsnow]

3. IT'S OVER 9000!!!!!!

(Sorry. It was necessary.)

[lame54]

11. thanks - corrected

[lightningandsnow]

17. I was not correcting, I was using a jokey pop-culture reference.

Sorry, dude. :P

[TornadoTN]

15. MY POWER LEVEL, WHAT IS IT!??!

IT'S OVER 9,000!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[hootinholler]

19. LOLZ n/t

[Lost in CT]

4. I gotta admit Stewart was on target on this one last night. nt

[HereSince1628]

5. If your state didn't get its tax money back as federal funding there'd be carping too.

I want a soybean technology center, I just don't want it in a border state. It is obvious to me all that money belongs in Wisconsin.

I want education on dairy farming, I just don't want it in Iowa. It is REALLY obvious to me that all that money belongs in Wisconsin.

I want volcano monitoring, I just don't want it in Wyoming. It is REALLY obvious to me that all that money belongs in Wisconsin.

etcetera, etcetera, etcetera.

Thank-you for bringing money back to Wisconsin Herb. Anyone looking to pick a fight over his earmarking of "Mad-deer" (chronic wasting disease) in Wisconsin? I've got wiggle room on that one. Frankly, I think more hunter-tourists from Chicagos should be eating Wisconsin raised prions, why worry about farm raised venison being infected with a deer disease? Only rich people eat that stuff in fancy urban restaurants.

[lame54]

6. .

[Winterblues]

7. Imagine if all that money was just left up to the Governors to spend..

Earmarks are not necessarily a bad thing... It allows for our Representatives to actually represent us and specify how our state will spend certain funds. If left up totally to the Governors they will support their favorite projects and leave their political opponents side lacking..

[seabeyond]

8. OMG.... i thought it was very good of stewart to put it into perspective last night,. n/t

[Obamanaut]

9. I thought that during the campaign I was told that earmarks would

go away.

But OTOH, I'm glad about the fund to remove tattoos. I can maybe get mine off, and start over on a clean skin.

[EOTE]

16. Only if you were a gang member.

I believe that's where the tattoo removal fund is aimed at. To get rid of their gang markings so they're better able to find gainful employment.

[wiggs]

10. Adding up to 7.7 billion!!! Why is virtually no one talking about how the last

republican budget had 29 billion in earmarks, which was down from their peak in 2005 of 54 billion?? Isn't perspective important?

[lame54]

18. in less than 2 months he's cut it down to 1/4...

that sounds like a good thing to me

[masuki bance]

12. Obama will end this practice

Remember how he went after p*lin and her fake "reform" talk?

"She's a skillful politician. But, you know, when you've been taking all these earmarks when it's convenient, and then suddenly you're the champion anti-earmark person, that's not change. Come on! I mean, words mean something, you can't just make stuff up."
http://www.cbsnews.com/stories/2008/09/06/politics/main4422895.shtml?source=RSSattr=Politics_4422895

[RandiFan1290]

13. I hear you guys like posts...

[Belial]

14. yea.. only 2%.. So why bother worrying about it..

[ncteechur]

20. I think you are bad-mouthing insect filth. Please stop.