Avorysuds
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His own distaste for earmarks!
America's Most Hypocritical Earmark King Is... Ron "The Representative From Stormfront" Paul
Even Paul doesn't say he's not the earmark King! He justitifies them.
...Paul made over $157 million in earmark requests for FY 2011, one of only four House Republicans to request any earmarks. Additionally, he made over $398 million in earmark requests for FY 2010, again one of the leading Republican House members...
Among Paul's earmarks are boondoggles like $38 million to "encourage parents to read aloud to their children", $18 million for a light rail study, $4 million for a "Trails and Sidewalks Connectivity Initiative", $11 million for an ACORN-like "Community-Based Job Training Program", $2 million for a "clean energy" pilot project, and many, many more.
All of the above earmarks can be found on Paul's own congressional website... Paul typically will make the earmark request, but then votes against or abstains from voting on final passage, so he can maintain his claim to have "never voted for an earmark", even the earmark requests he himself made.
This is Paul's job, this is the law of the land today and this is one of the reasons he was put into office. Paul did nothing morally corrupted nor illegal. Paul did not set himself up for "advisor" or "Historian" jobs after he left congress or do insider trading... No, Paul did his job and earmarked moneys that was being taken from his state... Paul does not agree with earmarking but to not do it would devastate his district.
BTW. You're so full of shit your eyes are brown. You better get back to being nutty for Newtie.
So you admit that Ron Paul does not have a distaste for earmarks! Thank you for pointing that out.
Hmm... It seems you can't read, and that's ok as I have comes to notice that that has been an increasing problem for you.
Paul wants term limits, yet because it is not law he does not simply live up to his own belief and quit.
Many liberals believe we need more taxes yet they don't just pay more to the federal Government come tax time.
Conservatives generally want fewer taxes yet they don't just up and decide to not pay their taxes.
See, the point is we have a set of laws as is, then we have what we want the laws to be... Until ones belief is a law it is not necessarily a bad thing if they don't follow their belief, not to say that just because it is not illegal to steal that stealing is ok, however that is not what we are talking about here, well in a way we are =D.
For instance in the case of earmarks, the money is taken from the community, therefore Paul and his supporters might want earmarks done away with but at this point in time their money is still taken from them, so to get it back they must follow the laws and process that we have set in place.
Do you understand that incredibly simplistic logic or are you just that far gone in your blind hate for Paul? Most people dont see it your way, in fact you dont even agree it's a bad thing what Paul is doing as much as it's you just want something to attack Paul with being there is so very little out there to use against Paul.
If others voted against earmarks then this would be a non issue, yet Paul many times is the only one that does that. You are simply not used to seeing a conservative, that is why Paul scares the crap out of you, you like your big, huge, every growing deficit spending Government, unless it's a Democrat...