Obama says that the government must sacrifice some worthy priority for which there are no dollars.  Fine.  But what they say is one thing.  Right after that he proposes additional spending (money we don't have) for the cure of Cancer.  Double speak.  National Health Care reform can't wait?  Until we have the money?  How many trillions in debt does this guy think we can't make before he ruins the country?


Obama is getting a new fleet of new helicopters.  Hmmmm, 11.2 Billion dollars.  Yeah, like one isn't enough.

But the topper is when he said he "is proud that we passed a recovery plan that is free of earmarks."

Really?  He's either lying or he's stupid.  Neither choice is good.

There's language in this "recovery package" that requires the Transportation Security Administration to buy 100,000 uniforms from U.S. apparel makers (more that three million of tax dollars).  That's an earmark folks.

Three billion in extra transit money.  Another earmark. 

Fifty million for habitat restoration in the San Francisco Bay area.  Another earmark.

1.2 million for products from these companies:  General Electric, L-3 Communications and Reveal Imaging Technologies. (Msnbc.com is a joint venture of Microsoft and NBC Universal, which is a GE company.)

Earmarks.

There's the 189 million provision for Filipino World War II vets, most of which don't live in the US.  Another earmark.

This is supposed to be emergency legislation. 


So what's up with the 2 billion for battery research?  Emergency legislation?  Maybe Obama is just redefining earmarks.  Kinda like Clinton did with "is."

There 800 million for carbon capture projects.

If it walks like a duck, quacks like a duck.  It's a duck. 

That's just a start.  It's pork, no matter what.  200 thousand dollars for tattoo removal?  Seriously, if that's not an earmark, what is it?

Nothing surprises me anymore.  Change we can believe in?  All we'll have left is change in our pockets and it won't be that much.