Republicans Push to Ban All Earmarks
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Eleven GOP Senators hope to enact two year moratorium on all earmark spending.
Led by Senator Jim DeMint, a group of Republican Senators are indicating hope in banning all federal government earmark spending. House Republicans have already stated they are willing to do the same.
While earmark spending makes up only a fraction of the total federal budget, the move would likely prove highly symbolic, and strongly emphasize the philosophical differences between the Republicans and the Democrats as both parties now begin to prepare for the next electoral political battle to be waged in 2012.
“Americans want Congress to shut down the earmark favor factory, and next week I believe House and Senate Republicans will unite to stop pork barrel spending,” DeMint said in a statement.
In 2010 the Democrat controlled Congress allocated $16.5 billion in earmark spending according to Citizens Against Government Waste.
What the Republicans should be doing is tracking down all the big wig bankers and throwing their rear-ends in Guantanamo. NO visitors allowed complete isolation from the rest of the world.
Gina, much of what the “big wig bankers” did was as a result of government regulators and the Clinton administration forcing them to do. That only happened after Citibank was sued to enforce a law from the Carter administration and it was the law firm Obama worked for who sued Citibank. You can thank excessive government regulation for the banking problems, rather than lack of regulation.
As for this article: what a joke. Sure I want to see earmarks stopped, but two years. Lets see that gives them just enough time to look like they are doing something positive then be able to go back to earmarks after they have a chance to elect a Repub president who will not call them out on earmarks. There are much bigger problems than earmarks at the moment though and far more important issues that need to be addressed.
Very interesting read.