EACH NEW DAY WE ARE INUNDATED WITH "BE AFRAID", WITH "NEW SECURITY THREATS", WITH DIRE WARNINGS OF "POSSIBLE IMPENDING TERRORIST ATTACKS", OF "LOSING AMERICAN JOBS IF YOU TAX THOSE CORPORATIONS", OF ANYTHING/EVERYTHING THAT DISTRACTS YOU FROM WATCHING THE DEALER IN THIS CARD GAME THAT PLAYS DAILY UP ON "CAPITOL HILL".
WHILE YOU WERE BUSY BEING SCARED TO DEATH OF IMAGINARY INCOMING TERRORISTS, OF THOSE MURDEROUS BROWN PEOPLE SNEAKING IN FROM THE SOUTH, OF EBOLA, THE SUPER-FLU, FASCIST/COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, SLUMPS IN THE STOCK MARKET, CHINA/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA TAKING US OUT, ALL THOSE LITTLE "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID" WARNINGS ISSUED DAILY IN THE PRESS, BY THE VERY ONES WHO NEED YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE THEY RAPE THIS NATION, SHRED OUR CONSTITUTION, AND COMMIT HIGH TREASON, YOU GOT SUCKERED INTO ANOTHER YEAR OF PAYING FOR PORK.
THE BUDGET DEAL HAS BEEN STRUCK....YOU GOT SCREWED, TAXPAYERS...AGAIN!
YOU PROBABLY HAVEN'T NOTICED, IT IS THE CHRISTMAS SEASON AND WE ALL HAVE SUCH BUSY LIFESTYLES, BUT UP ON CAPITOL HILL, YOUR ELECTEDS HAVE JUST SPENT A COOL TRILLION-PLUS ON CRAP YOU PROBABLY WON'T BELIEVE.
YOUR PALS THE REPUBLICANS SAY THEY DID IT SO THEY DIDN'T GET BLAMED FOR ANOTHER GOVERNMENT SHUT-DOWN.
YOUR PALS THE DEMOCRATS SAY THEY DID IT SO THE 'PUBLICANS DIDN'T TRY TO DESTROY OBAMACARE AND THE NEW IMMIGRATION THING.
THEY BOTH LIE.
THEY BOTH DID IT BECAUSE THEY WANTED TO.
AFTER ALL, IT'S NOT THEIR MONEY THEY'RE SPREADING AROUND, IT'S OURS, YOURS AND MINE AND IT'S "WE, THE PEOPLE", THE "COMMON MAN" WHO WILL PAY FOR THE "BILLS" THEY PASS, SAME AS ALWAYS.
THEY CREATE BILLS, WE PAY THEM.
WHAT ELSE ARE GOOD SERFS TO DO?
I would be sorry for those who didn't read the damned bills, who never bother to go to free websites and read free information about what Congress, CON-gress, is doing.
But I'm not in a pitying mood.
If you don't care, I don't care that you don't care.
I DO care that I care, that I never agreed to this, that I DID DO all I could to stop it.
If only a lousy MILLION out there in La-La Land had ALSO cared as much as I care, we could've rattled a few cages, could've maybe at least scared the bejeebus out of that pack of whores on THE HILL, made them wonder IF we'd finally just VOTE THEM OUT.
But,again, NO MILLIONS went to protest this abomination, this curse, this treason but a few thousand DID
Were YOU in that number?
AS ONE IRATE "ULTRA-CONSERVATIVE" WEBSITE MOANED:
" We live in the shadow of the cromnibus, an appropriately clunky word that combines “continuing resolution” emergency tactics with “omnibus spending” irresponsibility. The Cromnibus is a flabby beast [with] a gaping maw and many tentacles to feed itself, but it lacks eyes, ears, and a frontal lobe."[IF the guy who wrote that wasn't such a hypocrite, I'd cite his site, but hypocrites don't get respect here in the Tea Room.]
HAVE A LOOK AT WHAT WAS DONE TO ALL OF US, WHAT GETS SPENT ON WHAT!
~ The bill finances the day-to-day operations of every Cabinet department except Homeland Security through Sept. 30, 2015, with $521 billion for defense and $492 billion tied to non-defense. Another $64 billion is provided for overseas military operations.
SO, for basically our "WAR DEPARTMENT" ALMOST $600 BILLION"
$600,000,000,000?
DOES THAT SOUND LIKE WE'RE GOING TO BRING THE TROOPS HOME?
NO.
DON'T YOU WORRY WHEN THE PENTAGON REQUIRES MORE THAN ALL THE OTHER DEPARTMENTS PUT TOGETHER?
DOES IT REALLY NOT BOTHER YOU THAT ONE "AGENCY" IS OUTSPENDING ALL THE OTHERS LUMPED TOGETHER AND WE ARE NOT IN A SINGLE DECLARED WAR?
NO?
ALRIGHTY THEN.
That bastion of "stop and frisk", "let us feel you up or label you a terrorist", that divinely-inspired "Department of Homeland Security" (ho-ho-ho) is only funded until FEBRUARY, 2015, because SOME of the most RABID Republicans STILL imagine if they shut down "DHS" they can stop Obama's Exec Order on IMMIGRATION.
Now GREAT, NOBEL LAUREATE economic minds and lawyers that cost you and I an arm AND a leg for the GOP to retain have told them and told them, "You don't fund the immigration part, congress is NOT in that mix, and you can NEVER stop it from going into effect, EVEN IF YOU DO SHUT DOWN THE DAMNED GOVERNMENT, STUPID! Funding for immigration is NOT controlled by you bastards on the Hill!"
The older 'Publicans have gone on national TV and admitted this, explained WHY they can't stop either ObamaCare OR the immigration thing without YEARS of rewriting LAWS, without turning the entire system upside down and inside out to CREATE loopholes.
But Crying John Boehner wants to believe he can play Messiah.
He NEEDS to slap the supreme snot out of Obama SOMEHOW, just once, so he can stop binge-drinking and MAYBE stop blubbering like a baby just one day.
NOT going to happen, Johnny.
Cry on!
~On page 217, Title VI of the bill, is the “Travel Promotion, Enhancement and Modernization Act of 2014.” It reauthorizes, extends, and changes the “Travel Promotion Act of 2009”—which, as Breitbart News has previously reported, is a nothing more than a kickback to Reid and his casino pals in Las Vegas.
This omnibus spending bill—which is supposed to be just an Appropriations bill, not dealing with reauthorizations like this—reauthorizes the Travel Promotion Act program for five extra years through 2020. It was supposed to sunset and END in 2015.
Nevada's GOP Senator, Dean Heller, dived right in and helped Reid rescue that business. It was a "bipartisan" MIRACLE!
A Dem & a 'Pub working together to hand some moolah to their BIG campaign donors!
Yaaaay, team!
Way to show "hands across the aisle"...and right into that hog trough you boys feed at, the ones we old "common folk" slop for you every day.
Eat up, "PARTIES", there's plenty where that came from!
There’s a lot of junk in this “cromnibus” spending bill that could be used to give examples of Congress' free-wheeling glut of spending, spending, things such as this juicy payoff to outgoing Majority Leader Harry Reid’s and Heller's rich casino backers… but then, in order for Republican leaders to make hay over such flagrant corruption, they’d have to give up THEIR pork and payoffs, and they don’t want that.
NOOO! ANTHING BUT THAT!
MUST HAVE PORK BARREL, UNBRIDLED SPENDING, SAY BOTH "PARTIES", SO THEY "PARTY ON" AND YOU AND i GET TO CLEAN UP AFTER THE PARTY, AGAIN.
~ Just a few more examples of PORK, of EARMARKS spending, that YOUR tax dollars MUST pay for:
--$90 million to upgrade the M1 Abrams tank, which is opposed by the Pentagon;
--$15 million for the Pacific Coastal Salmon Recovery Fund, secured by Senate Appropriations Committee member Patty Murray (D-Wash.);
--$5.9 million for the East-West Center, a “victory” for Sen. Brian Schatz (D-Hawaii);
--and $150,000 for the Christopher Columbus Fellowship Foundation, a pet project of Senate Appropriations Committee member Thad Cochran (R-Miss.).
~Members of Congress have long used the Agriculture, Rural Development, Food and Drug Administration, and Related Agencies Appropriations Act to feed at the trough. The number of earmarks rose by 400 percent, from two in FY 2012 to 10 in FY 2014, while the cost increased by 657.3 percent, from $10.3 million in FY 2012 to $78 million in FY 2014. The Rural Utilities Service (RUS) and the Rural Business Cooperative Service received $60.7 million, or 77.8 percent of the total cost of the earmarks.
~A MINK COAT FOR THEIR PALS, WRAPPED IN A BURLAP BAG SO YOU DON'T SEE IT:
Republican leaders quietly to reauthorized a corporate welfare agency the Overseas Private Investment Corp. is a federal agency that subsidizes U.S. companies investing in foreign countries -- such as Ritz-Carlton building a hotel in Turkey. OPIC provides a taxpayer backstop for the banks and the developers in case anything goes wrong.
OPIC's charter expires Sept. 30 -- the end of the current fiscal year. A standalone bill to reauthorize OPIC would face a tough fight, given the strong Tea Party, anti-corporate-welfare strain in the House.
Instead, House Foreign Affairs Chairman, a Republican , Ed Royce -- a former opponent of OPIC -- teamed up with Democrats to stick reauthorization into the “Electrify Africa Act of 2014.”
The Electrify Africa bill has broad bipartisan support. Even if it grates on some Republicans’ libertarian beliefs, there was no real opposition.
Reauthorizing OPIC without debate is a more contentious issue. So it was convenient that a few inscrutable lines in a 22-page, non-controversial bill would do the deed.
Section 8 of the bill would introduce reforms of OPIC, including more congressional oversight. But buried amid the technical language of this section is language that would reauthorize OPIC for three years.
3 MORE YEARS OF GIFTS FOR THE OVERSEAS WHEELERS AND DEALERS THAT JUST LOVE TO SCRATCH CONGRESSIONAL BACKS WITH A LITTLE CAMPAIGN MOOLAH!
KA-CHING, KA-CHING, SCORE ONE FOR THE SLICK BOYS IN CON-CON-CONGRESS!
AND THAT, LADIES AND GENTS, IS HOW YOU TANGO, UP ON THE HILL!
OPIC extended $50 million in financing in 2000 to subsidize the PRIVATELY-OWNED RITZ-CARLTON HOTEL IN TURKEY, YES, IN TURKEY!
The hotel needed updating with antique furniture to give it that "Ottoman flare", you see.
From the point of view of the U.S. economy as a whole,” the non-partisan Congressional Research Service wrote years ago, “there is little theoretical support or empirical evidence that supports claims that subsidizing exports or overseas investment offers a positive net gain in jobs to the U.S. economy.''
If you’ve ever visited Istanbul and stayed at the Ritz-Carlton, however, you’ve enjoyed the benefits of OPIC.
Like so many congressman do.
More recent OPIC projects include $250 million in taxpayer-backed financing for Sun Edison to install a solar farm in South Africa, and $150 million in OPIC insurance for Citibank to open branches in Pakistan, Jordan and Egypt.
Citibank is America’s third-largest bank, with total assets of $1.8 trillion, yet it can’t line up insurance without taxpayer backing?
FELL FREE TO VOMIT AT ANY TIME.
$7,000,000 for the Rand Arroyo Center. Located in the district of Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.), the facility has received four earmarks costing $15.4 million since FY 2005. In FY 2010, Senate Defense Appropriations Subcommittee member Diane Feinstein (D-Calif.) and House Defense Appropriations Subcommittee member James Moran (D-Va.) requested a $1.6 million earmark for the center, and Sen. Feinstein also added a $4 million earmark in FY 2009.
~$15,699,000 for the ARC (Appalachian Regional Commission) under the Related Agencies Appropriations Act , a regional economic development agency established by Congress in 1965. Of the amount earmarked, $10 million will fund a high-speed broadband deployment program to “diversify and enhance regional business development.” However, three federal agencies, the Federal Communications Commission, the National Information and Telecommunications Administration and the RUS already spend the taxpayers’ money to bring broadband to under-served areas. The ARC itself DUPLICATES the mission of other federal economic development programs. On July 10, 2013, Rep. Steve Chabot (R-Ohio) offered an amendment to the FY 2014 Energy and Water appropriations bill that would eliminate all funding for the ARC, the Delta Regional Authority, the Denali Commission, and two other regional commissions. The amendment was defeated by a vote of 147-273. Since FY 1995, the ARC has received six earmarks totaling $148.7 million for projects in Alabama, Kentucky, North Carolina, Ohio, South Carolina, Tennessee and West Virginia.
NOTICE ANYTHING?
ALL GOOD OL' BOYS GOP STATES, SO THANK YOUR REPUBLICAN WHO FOUGHT TO KEEP THIS...GOOD FOR THEIR LOCAL ECONOMIES, AND SCREW YOURS, BY THE WAY.
~$1,280,000 for the Savannah Harbor Expansion Project (SHEP) through the Army Corps of Engineers.
A March 6, 2014 letter to Office of Management and Budget Director Sylvia Burwell from all 16 members of the Georgia congressional delegation expressed support for SHEP. In addition, Senate Energy and Water Development Appropriations Subcommittee member Lindsey Graham (R-S.C.) is in favor of more federal funding for SHEP because he believes it will help the Port of Charleston. Since FY 1995, SHEP has received 11 earmarks totaling $33 million.
~The number of earmarks in the Financial Services and General Government Appropriations Act tripled to three.
$45,122,000 for the high intensity drug trafficking areas program (HIDTA) at the Office of National Drug Control Policy. Originally intended for border states, members of Congress have used earmarks to expand HIDTA to non-border states. Since FY 1997, 28 earmarks costing taxpayers $161.6 million have been provided for HIDTA programs; 16 of the earmarks were directed to programs in 10 states, only two of which, Arizona and New Mexico, are border states. The other eight states that received HIDTA earmarks were Alabama, Hawaii, Iowa, Louisiana, Missouri, New Jersey, Tennessee, and Wisconsin.
HAWAII?
IOWA?
REALLY?
WELL, YOU DON'T CARE, DO YOU, PEONS?
JUST PAY THE BILL LIKE GOOD LITTLE SERFS.
SOME FAT CATS IN HAWAII AND IOWA NEED NEW CLOTHES.
KA-CHING!
~$25,000,000 for the 'National Predisaster Mitigation Fund' (NPMF).
WHAT THE HELL IS "PREDISASTER?
WHO KNOWS?
The Obama administration first proposed eliminating the NPMF in its FY 2013 budget, yet Congress continues to earmark funding.
[ IF OBAMA ASKED FOR HEADS TO BE BOWED AT THE TOMB OF CHRIST, REPUBLICANS WOULD CUT THEIRS OFF RATHER THAN BOW THEM. THOSE ARE THE RULES, YOU SEE.]
~Since FY 2008, there have been 205 NPMF earmarks, requested by more than 100 members of Congress, costing taxpayers $125.6 million. $21,094,000 for the National Exercise Program, which aims to assess and improve the country’s preparedness and resiliency. This program also received a $50 million earmark in FY 2004.
AN EXERCISE PROGRAM?
FOR WHOM?
WHERE?
~$3,364,000 for the Valles Caldera National Preserve, an 89,000-acre ranch, YES, A RANCH, located in New Mexico’s Jemez Mountains that the federal government purchased in 2000 for $101 million. It was scheduled to no longer drink from the trough of federal funds by 2015, and the Forest Service was supposed to take over operations from the Valles Caldera Trust in 2020 if the facility could not meet the self-funding directive. Senate Interior Appropriations Subcommittee member Tom Udall (D-N.M.) and former Sen. Jeff Bingaman (D-N.M.) were responsible for two earmarks for Valles Caldera in FYs 2008 and 2009 worth a total of $6.9 million. Since FY 2001, the preserve has received seven earmarks worth a total of $17.1 million.
YOUR BOYS ON THE HILL WILL FEED THIS ONE AGAIN...BECAUSE YOU DIDN'T SCREAM AT THEM NOT TO.
SHUT UP, PAY THE BILL.
~$5,000,000 for abstinence education. Since 1996, the United States has spent more than $1.8 billion for abstinence education programs. In FYs 2008 and 2009, former Sen. Arlen Specter (D-Pa.) was responsible for 47 abstinence education earmarks in Pennsylvania worth a total of $1.4 million. Since FY 2001, 128 earmarks worth $18.2 million have been provided for abstinence education programs IN MANY STATES, BY BOTH PUBLICANS AND DEMOCATS...EVERYBODY GET SOME!
This earmark (among others) demonstrates that Congress cannot abstain from pork.
So, does anyone think these programs will make kids swear off sex, "just say no"?
Did you?
SOMEONE WROTE TO ME THAT THERE ARE CLOSE TO 9000
EARMARKS", I.E., PORK SPENDING, RIDING ALONG IN THAT "MUST PASS" BUDGET DEAL.
MUST BE SOME REAL DOOZIES FOR BOTH PARTIES TO REACH AN AGREEMENT, BUT, BOTTOM LINE, YOU AND I HAVE JUST BEEN ROYALLY SCREWED AGAIN, VOTERS, NON-VOTERS, YOU WHO CARE AND YOU WHO DON'T.
LET ME REPEAT MY OPENING REMARK:
WHILE YOU WERE BUSY BEING SCARED TO DEATH OF IMAGINARY INCOMING TERRORISTS, OF THOSE MURDEROUS BROWN PEOPLE SNEAKING IN FROM THE SOUTH, OF EBOLA, THE SUPER-FLU, FASCIST/COMMUNIST TAKEOVER, SLUMPS IN THE STOCK MARKET, CHINA/NORTH KOREA/RUSSIA TAKING US OUT, ALL THOSE LITTLE "BE AFRAID, BE VERY AFRAID" WARNINGS ISSUED DAILY IN THE PRESS, BY THE VERY ONES WHO NEED YOU TO LOOK THE OTHER WAY WHILE THEY RAPE THIS NATION, SHRED OUR CONSTITUTION, AND COMMIT HIGH TREASON, YOU GOT SUCKERED INTO ANOTHER YEAR OF PAYING FOR PORK.
IF YOU DON'T READ WHAT THEY WRITE UP ON THE HILL, THIS WILL BE YOUR LOT IN LIFE FOREVER, YOUR GRANDCHILDREN WILL CURSE YOU FOR IT AS THEY PAY FOR YOUR BLIND ACCEPTANCE OF "WHATEVER CONGRESS THINKS BEST".
CONGRESS THINKS YOU'RE MORONS, AMERICA.
CONGRESS HAS BEEN RIGHT FOR ABOUT 100 YEARS NOW.
SMILE AND PAY THE BILLS, CITIZENS!
No one in power even pretends to be interested in responsible government any more, because the American people don’t loudly and constantly insist on it… and we should have learned by now that only our loudest, angriest, most unified cries can be heard over the constant seductive whisper of the Cromnibus. Enjoy your latest round of desperate last-minute must-pass emergency spending from the same arrogant elites who claim they alone have the wisdom to manage every aspect of your life, and be advised you’ll be getting the same “present” from them next Christmas, and the one after that.
HO-HO-HO!
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3 SOURCES...IF YOU WANT THE REST, FIND THEM YOURSELVES. IT WILL BE A GOOD START FOR THOSE OF YOU WHO NEVER GO DIGGING FOR TRUTH. JUST USE "KEY WORDS" FROM THE BLOG, IT'S ALL OUT THERE:
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2014/05/29/congress-spending_n_5413205.html
http://cagw.org/reporting/pig-book
http://www.washingtonexaminer.com/republicans-try-to-sneak-corporate-welfare-agency-opic-through-the-house/article/2548134
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