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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:01 PM
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Repugs can talk about cutting PORK, but the biggest PORK of all is IRAQ
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 03:06 PM by LSK
You want to talk about cutting museums? You want to talk about cutting education programs?? Sen McCain can read a list of little programs that cost $500k each, but how about that $500billion disaster that is the Iraq war??

You want to talk about your grandkids futures? You want to talk about government spending out of control?

You want to talk about PORK???

Wheres your tough talk about Halliburtan? Wheres your tough talk about payoffs to the "Duke" Cunninghams of the world? How about a star wars PORK program when the cold war is over and our biggest threat is a suitcase nuke?

GET THE FUCK OUT OF IRAQ 1ST. Then you can talk about cutting pork and we might believe you.
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FloridaPat Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:03 PM
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1. Don't forget the other boondoggle - Star Wars defense plan.
Estimates that it will cost $1 trillion when it's finally ready. And don't forget the $1 trillion the DOD lost.
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LSK Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:05 PM
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2. added, thx
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mattclearing Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:40 PM
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8. And it still won't work. n/t
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Upfront Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:08 PM
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3. Love what you said
and how you said it. It is now time to fight these basterds with all you have!
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triguy46 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:15 PM
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4. this has to be one of the quietest issues of all...
We spend time talking about the lies, the misrepresentations, but very little about what a budget buster this is. Dems are the fiscally responsible party.
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:17 PM
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5. I think a lot of the waste is NOT Pork, but pure stupidity!
I watched a hearing on cspan, Fri I think, where they were questioning a guy from Homeland Security about the major screwup with spending in the Imigration dept. I don't recall ALL the details, but they had something like 7 hands things had to go through to get an expense approved and paid. Even with that, they had spend something like $11 Billion on cameras, and unmanned observation vehicles, but could only prove that $$4-5 million was actually received and working! The whole story was mind boggeling! I told my husband that our grandchildren (ages 8 & 6) could have done the job better!!!!

It's areas like that where BIG savings could be found, and NOBODY but the crooked suppliers would be upset! If they did the same kind of investigation into the military supply lines, I could run for President, and WIN! All I'd have to do is explain to the American people that I can save BILLIONS esch year, and not have to cut even ONE program, or raise any taxes!
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90-percent Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:21 PM
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6. but but but
How will Long Island Defense contractors be able to throw their daughters $20,000,000 Bar Mitzvah's?

you must develop your Republican spirit of giving!

-85% jimmy
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napi21 Donating Member (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore Tue Dec-20-05 03:39 PM
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7. Trust me. The only people who care about the contractor's
Edited on Tue Dec-20-05 03:59 PM by napi21
daughters are the contractors!
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