PoliticalChic
Diamond Member
I voted for Obama and I'm PISSED that he allowed the democratic congress to muck up the stimulus package with all the personal pork that they hid under their desks during the Bush administration.
Define that which you believe is pork, please.
I haven't seen such a bullshit spending plan since a cheerleader friend got her daddy's American Express card.
Specifically which spending is pork in your opinion?
Find the rest of the article in todays WSJ
On the tax-cut side, the Senate bill included a tax break worth up to $246 million over 11 years for outside investors in big-budget Hollywood movie projects. "Tax cuts for the wealthy" are okay as long as the wealthy are making movies. But bad publicity and pork-busting Sen. Tom Coburn pressed the Senate (including 13 Democrats) to scrap the tax break.
The "green" lobby is thrown a pile of bones in the "stimulus" bill, including $10 million for bike and walking trails, $200 million for plug-in electric car stations, $400 million for climate change research by NASA scientists, $600 million to buy new "green" cars for government workers,...