Posted on 07/09/2009 9:47:55 AM PDT by Shellybenoit
Maybe Congress believes that the "other white meat" is good for you, because the health care bill is loaded with it, even though people are already choking on the price tag.
In one more example that the Democratic Party-run congress is just not listening to the will of the people, both the house and Senate versions of the developing Obamacare legislation has special "pet projects" designed to make the representatives more popular in their districts. Included are projects that have nothing to do with providing universal health insurance such as adding lighting to a playground or clearing a walking path or a bike path or restoring a park.
All these pork barrel projects may very well be noble efforts, but they should not be in a health care bill. Heck, they shouldn't even be in a Federal bill, they are the responsibility of the local governments:
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because it is wealth-share, not health-care.
When are they going to ‘get it’? Pork is the whole point.
Self-evident: Because politicians, namely Liberal Dems, were involved.
Without Pork, the votes aren’t there. Any fences sitters are waiting for their Pork to be added. Any last minute holdouts are waiting for bigger Pork to be added.
How can anyone tell? Nobody reads what their voting on.
Agreed, but who are the ones who created and then rushed to push this thru? Having not read the bill or a bill in its entirety does not necessarily imply or infer that ‘they’ do not know what is to be gained, whether in profits or in consolidated political power.
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