McCollum requests earmarks for Kline’s district

Why can’t Kline bring back some of the free money to his district? He is an idiot and anyone who votes for him is an idiot.

The Freedom Foundation’s definition of waste seems to be either a project they don’t immediately understand, or one about which they can dream up a snarky remark. Where are the earmarks for to businesses that just happened to belong to cronies of congressmen? Guess none of Minnesota’s congressmen had those, so Freedom Foundation decided to criticize trucks for a county government.

“We are going to ban all earmarks,” Obama said at a press conference on January 6, 2009.

Mmmmmmm, waffles.

Earmarks are a plague on a system ripe with corruption. All incumbents must go. It’s time for term limits.

Earmarks are a legitimate exercise of the congressional authority to appropriate money. Check out article I, section 9 (yes, the Constitution has something in it besides the Second and Tenth Amendments).

For all you small-government types who despise earmarks, let me ask if you would rather have unelected, anonymous bureaucrats deciding where and how money gets spent.

Jimmy your Obama quote is one in which he was directly referring to the stimulus bill and there were no earmarks.

Earmarks are bad, earmarks got Hwy 35 rebuilt – I argued it should not be rebuilt with earmarks and my sanity was questioned by conservatives.

Randy
While true Earmarks are not against the law, they allow for the appearance of corruption and encourage influence peddling. I prefer a law that states that no state should receive no more than 115% of the federal taxes they pay.

States like Alaska, Arizona, and Texas get 120% or more back while MN get less than 90%.

“We are going to ban all earmarks” sounds somewhat longterm to me.

And trying to be the biggest leach on the federal government hardly seems like a path to prosperity.

13 trillion in debt and the lefties are still defending unnecessary projects to make people feel good. lets make each representative pay 10 percent of the cost of the earmark from his/her salary and see how much they submit in earmarks.

I don’t care what any Republi-thug thinks about earmarks, if there is free money from the Feds, I want it coming to Minnesota.

Somehow all of our Democratic Representatives and Senators understand that free means it does not cost us anything. Why don’t the Republi-thugs see that?

Typical liberal, she won’t mind her own freaking business.

The money that is “earmarked” has already been appropriated. Banning earmarks would have no effect on overall federal spending, though earmarked spending is a tiny fraction of the overall budget.

Besides, having elected officials decide where this money goes strikes me as more democratic than turning it loose into the bureaucracy.

First of all, the money isn’t “free.” Hardworking taxpayers had it confiscated from their paychecks. Secondly, the country is bankrupt and all this spending is just piling more debt on future generations. Liberals are always so generous with other people’s money. Kline, Bachmann and Paulsen have it right.

Besides the immoral tendancy to steal, the mistake made by leftists is that their spending will create value economically. Value is created only by PROFIT which is antithetical to the leftist mantra. The economic truism is that government spending will turn resources into less resources.

Without capitalism and its requisite PROFITS we’d all be growing our own food and the statistical hump of life expectancy would be half what it is now.

Just like Republicans — they want none of the hard work, but all of the benefits. Bet Johnny, Erik and Michele will be at the ribbon cutting ceremonies for the things they railed against. Timmy Pee always is!

Excuse me, Ginny, but I work hard for the money I earn and do not appreciate half of it being confiscated for more and more entitlement programs and projects that this country and state cannot afford to sustain. And name-calling the governor reflects poorly on you, not him.

“and do not appreciate half of it being confiscated for more and more entitlement programs ”

…but blowing a trillion in Iraq for nothing remotely related to “protecting our freedoms” is okay.

Also, you’d be whining less if you made more, because less of your income would be “confiscated.”

“Secondly, the country is bankrupt and all this spending is just piling more debt on future generations.”

“Deficits don’t matter.” – Dick Cheney

If the Iraq war is such a loser why did the Democrites vote for it? Besides, the only justification for a federal government is war. Toad mating studies and speed limits, not so much.

[...] Representatives who can come to the aid of Rep. “Deadbeat”. Betty McCollum has put in a couple of requests for Dakota County, even though there is only a tiny sliver of it that actually constitutes her district. [...]

Doesn’t matter what the democraps did, wonder bunny, they weren’t in charge.

Of course it matters. Democrites had their paw prints all over this war until it was politically valuable to throw the troops to the wolves. Traitors.

“I believe we have an obligation to protect the United States by preventing [Saddam Hussein] from GETTING these weapons and either using them himself or passing them or their components on to terrorists who share his destructive intent,” said Gephardt (D-Missouri), who helped draft the measure.

http://archives.cnn.com/2002/ALLPOLITICS/10/11/iraq.us/