Bringing home the bacon
The new Omnibus spending bill is absurd and it will really hurt the Dems if it passes -- you thought 2010 was a wake-up call, just wait another two years...
From the
Southeast Missourian:
Redistribution on steroids
Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark.
When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics.
In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri's 5th Congressional District representative, has one small earmark on his wish list that deserves some attention.
Cleaver has listed a new earmark -- one of several -- and he promises to "fight for every one." But this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.
Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.
Just call this redistribution on steroids.
That $48Bn will do nothing to alleviate poverty. It will sustain the conditions that contribute to the poverty.
If Rep. Cleaver actually did something to lift his constituents out of poverty, he would have no more power over them and he would be booted out of office. This is just paying off some cronies and keeping the people down under the man. They have become caricatures of their own history...
Posted by DaveH at December 15, 2010 8:15 PM