mrs reb77
01-02-2008, 02:04 PM
This recent message (today) from Dick Armey at Freedomworks. Anyone else get these and, if so, is the organization believable?
Message copied and pasted from e-mail:
It’s 2008, and there’s already good news and bad news. The bad news: It’s too late for Congress to take back the bloated Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill – an enormous stack of spending 2 feet high, which includes billions in wasteful government spending. The good news is that President Bush still has some say in how that money is spent.
The giant bill includes more than 8,000 pork-barrel earmarks, which tag taxpayer money for a politician’s pet projects. Even worse, over 300 of those earmarks were “air-dropped” into the bill at the last minute.
That means that the 300 earmarks were never discussed - they were secretly included in back room negotiations between House and Senate appropriators. The air-dropped earmarks were not passed by either the House or Senate during earlier discussions of the omnibus bill, and were not subject to a point of order, amendment, or debate on the floor of either body.
The President has one tool left to stop these destructive earmarks – an executive order. TAKE ACTION and tell President Bush to stop earmark spending. The President can issue an executive order directing federal departments and agencies not to spend any tax dollars that aren’t explicitly appropriated in the text of the bill.
Stopping 300 earmarks might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the over 8,000 give-aways to everyone from labor unions to extreme environmentalists to fruit fly researchers in France (!). But each earmark counts and each special interest group denied a hand-out sends a message to Congress that Americans will not tolerate wasteful spending and underhanded political tactics.
TAKE ACTION and tell President Bush that your hard earned dollars should not pay for politicians’ pet projects.
Message copied and pasted from e-mail:
It’s 2008, and there’s already good news and bad news. The bad news: It’s too late for Congress to take back the bloated Fiscal Year 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill – an enormous stack of spending 2 feet high, which includes billions in wasteful government spending. The good news is that President Bush still has some say in how that money is spent.
The giant bill includes more than 8,000 pork-barrel earmarks, which tag taxpayer money for a politician’s pet projects. Even worse, over 300 of those earmarks were “air-dropped” into the bill at the last minute.
That means that the 300 earmarks were never discussed - they were secretly included in back room negotiations between House and Senate appropriators. The air-dropped earmarks were not passed by either the House or Senate during earlier discussions of the omnibus bill, and were not subject to a point of order, amendment, or debate on the floor of either body.
The President has one tool left to stop these destructive earmarks – an executive order. TAKE ACTION and tell President Bush to stop earmark spending. The President can issue an executive order directing federal departments and agencies not to spend any tax dollars that aren’t explicitly appropriated in the text of the bill.
Stopping 300 earmarks might seem like a drop in the bucket compared to the over 8,000 give-aways to everyone from labor unions to extreme environmentalists to fruit fly researchers in France (!). But each earmark counts and each special interest group denied a hand-out sends a message to Congress that Americans will not tolerate wasteful spending and underhanded political tactics.
TAKE ACTION and tell President Bush that your hard earned dollars should not pay for politicians’ pet projects.