“President Barack Obama will break a campaign pledge and sign a budget bill laden with millions in lawmakers’ pet projects, administration officials said.Administration budget chief Peter Orszag and White House chief of staff Rahm Emanuel both downplayed the $410 billion spending bill and signaled Obama would hold his nose and sign it. Orszag said: “We want to just move on. Let’s get this bill done, get it into law and move forward.
Said Emanuel: “That’s last year’s business.”
The House last week passed the measure that would keep the government running through Sept. 30, when the federal budget year ends. Taxpayers for Common Sense, a watchdog group, identified almost 8,600 specially sponsored projects totaling $7.7 billion; Democrats say the number is $3.8 billion.”
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Is this the change that you voted for? Bigger and juicier pork? “8,600 specially sponsored projects totaling $7.7 billion” I was afraid that once those assholes in Congress learned the word, “Trillion”, Billion would become pocket change to them.
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