Comments on: Air around Capitol is thick with Pork http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/ Sat, 22 Nov 2008 03:43:08 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.2 By: Jane Chastain http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-54 Jane Chastain Fri, 16 Nov 2007 22:08:57 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-54 Tom, I like that idea. However, we still have the problem of what happens behind closed doors when the House and Senate goes to conference on the bill. That is when a lot of the pork is added Tom,

I like that idea. However, we still have the problem of what happens behind closed doors when the House and Senate goes to conference on the bill. That is when a lot of the pork is added

]]> By: Jane Chastain http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-52 Jane Chastain Fri, 16 Nov 2007 21:46:35 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-52 M.B. We are both right. I am talking about the budget plan that covered a five year period that was adopted in 1995. Clinton had proposed one that had deficits as far as the eye could see. Republicans had proposed one that would reach balance. I put up five columns (under Clinton budgets) just for you that I wrote about that budget fight that covered that period and should provide a good history lesson. After that budget fight the Washington Post published the results of a poll that showed that the American people had no idea that the Republican Congress had proposed a budget that reached balance. At that point most Republicans lost threw up their hands and said, "What's the use." At that point they gave up and became part of the problem. Clinton finally gave us a tax cut in 1997 -- that and the bubble in the stock market produced record surpluses which were not anticipated. The Republican-led Congress quickly gobbled them up. M.B. We are both right. I am talking about the budget plan that covered a five year period that was adopted in 1995. Clinton had proposed one that had deficits as far as the eye could see. Republicans had proposed one that would reach balance. I put up five columns (under Clinton budgets) just for you that I wrote about that budget fight that covered that period and should provide a good history lesson.

After that budget fight the Washington Post published the results of a poll that showed that the American people had no idea that the Republican Congress had proposed a budget that reached balance. At that point most Republicans lost threw up their hands and said, “What’s the use.” At that point they gave up and became part of the problem.

Clinton finally gave us a tax cut in 1997 — that and the bubble in the stock market produced record surpluses which were not anticipated. The Republican-led Congress quickly gobbled them up.

]]> By: M. B. http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-50 M. B. Fri, 16 Nov 2007 13:41:53 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-50 "In 1995, after 40 years of Democrat control, the new Republican majority stood up to President Clinton to try to pass a budget that would reach balance. After taking the blame for two government shutdowns, they lost their nerve and took the road of least resistance" This statement of your's is historically inaccurate. the real story is that the final clinton budget came in with an $18 billion dollar deficit and a projected surplus of over $200 billion for the next year (Bush's first). Bush, and his republican congress, looked at the surplus as a windfall for them and went wild spending like drunken sailors, adding trillions of dollars to our national debt until they were thrown out of office - save Bush - in 2006. Now that dems are in charge of congress, suddenly Bush wants to be a budget hawk. It has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with his true budget feelings. If his "boys" were in charge he would be throwing all the money around just like before. This is the main reason we need to elect anyone other than Huckabee...who is just Bush Part II. “In 1995, after 40 years of Democrat control, the new Republican majority stood up to President Clinton to try to pass a budget that would reach balance. After taking the blame for two government shutdowns, they lost their nerve and took the road of least resistance”

This statement of your’s is historically inaccurate. the real story is that the final clinton budget came in with an $18 billion dollar deficit and a projected surplus of over $200 billion for the next year (Bush’s first).

Bush, and his republican congress, looked at the surplus as a windfall for them and went wild spending like drunken sailors, adding trillions of dollars to our national debt until they were thrown out of office - save Bush - in 2006.

Now that dems are in charge of congress, suddenly Bush wants to be a budget hawk. It has everything to do with politics and nothing to do with his true budget feelings. If his “boys” were in charge he would be throwing all the money around just like before.

This is the main reason we need to elect anyone other than Huckabee…who is just Bush Part II.

]]> By: Tom Goodpaster http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-49 Tom Goodpaster Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:29:04 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-49 Earmarks could be stopped if a bill was written and put in a safe and copies were used. When the bill is sent to the President the origional would be pulled out of the safe and sent to the President. Earmarks could be stopped if a bill was written and put in a safe and copies were used. When the bill is sent to the President the origional would be pulled out of the safe and sent to the President.

]]> By: Jane Chastain http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-48 Jane Chastain Fri, 16 Nov 2007 03:03:59 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-48 Dick, The donkey became the symbol of the Democrat Party as a result of a slur directed at Andrew Jackson. His detractors called him a "jackass." You could make the case that the tail would be more appropriate. However, they now control Congress. They are in the lead, and bear most of the responsibility (and the blame) so I would give them the head. Byron, Bravo! Keep the handful that sign the earmark pledge and dump the rest! Dick, The donkey became the symbol of the Democrat Party as a result of a slur directed at Andrew Jackson. His detractors called him a “jackass.” You could make the case that the tail would be more appropriate. However, they now control Congress. They are in the lead, and bear most of the responsibility (and the blame) so I would give them the head.

Byron, Bravo! Keep the handful that sign the earmark pledge and dump the rest!

]]> By: Byron M Hunt http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-47 Byron M Hunt Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:35:42 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-47 I believe that most of those in our House and Senate have the brains of a chicken. They all need to be voted out of office, and a new slate of trustworthy, thinking, patriotic people be elected to office. We have developed a nation of people who keep wanting, but never giving. People need to wake up! I believe that most of those in our House and Senate have the brains of a chicken. They all need to be voted out of office, and a new slate of trustworthy, thinking, patriotic people be elected to office.

We have developed a nation of people who keep wanting, but never giving. People need to wake up!

]]> By: Dick Mumma http://janechastain.com/2007/11/15/air-around-capitol-is-thick-with-pork/#comment-46 Dick Mumma Thu, 15 Nov 2007 18:15:26 +0000 http://janechastain.com/?p=16#comment-46 Do you have a vision of which end of the pig the Democrats are? I could guess, but I want your take. Thanks Do you have a vision of which end of the pig the Democrats are? I could guess, but I want your take.
Thanks

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