Obama vs McCain on wasteful spending
18 billion dollars from this years budget is going toward Pork Barrel projects. This is when a congressman pushes legislation through for the purpose of sending money back to their hometown, or district, often for lavish and needless projects at the taxpayers expense. Obviously it's good to do this when you wanna get re-elected. I'm sure you've all heard of the 'bridge to nowhere', which is a perfect example.
For the issue of wasteful spending, this shows the true character of our representatives, and how little they care about spending the taxpayers dollar on campaign promises, and how far they will go to win an election. Well lets look at the presidential candidates earmark record, shall we?
Hillary Clinton - More than $340 MILLION in earmarks for her district in New York. She is among the top 10 earmark-seeking senators.
Barack Hussein Obama - $91 million to his state of Illinios, and he's only been a US Senator for 3 years! He's also proposing a $37 billion dollar tax increase (-Wsj)
John McCain - after 22 years in the US Senate, $0 in earmark spending, $0 pork barrel, it's simply amazing.
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Last edited by UR2EZ; 06-26-2008 at 09:17 AM.
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