RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!RON PAUL!!!
I love this guy and his followers. Very comical lot.
Posted on 06/09/2008 5:19:23 PM PDT by Dog Gone
Ron Paul is frequently described as a strict constitutionalist who won't vote for anything not authorized in the Constitution. Some call him Dr. No. Some call him "The Taxpayer's Best Friend."
It's a reputation that doesn't appear to square with the fact.
Try to find the constitutional authority for the earmarks he submitted for the upcoming FY 2009 budget.
Subcommittee on Commerce, Justice and Science: • $250,000 for Galveston Economic Development Partnership, for Galveston Center for Business and Technology Development to help spin off private investment at National Lab of the University of Texas Medical Branch• $500,000 for City of Bay City for NuBlac Rehab Center (youth rehabilitation)
Subcommittee on Defense: • $3.5 million for study of health risks of exposure to vanadium
Subcommittee on Military Construction: • $2 million for City of Bay City for NuBlac Rehab Center (serving minority veterans)
Subcommittee on Energy and Water Development: • $41.073 million for Army Corps of Engineers to deepen and widen Texas City Channel
• $21.6 million for Army Corps of Engineers to dredge and reconfigure jetties at mouth of Colorado River
• $7.02 million for Army Corps of Engineers to dredge Freeport Harbor
• $16.021 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Galveston Harbor
• $1 million for Army Corps of Engineers for construction at Cedar Bayou
• $3.297 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Texas City Channel
• $200,000 for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Cedar Bayou
• $13.038 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Matagorda Ship Channel
• $42.018 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Gulf Intercoastal Waterway
• $3.026 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain channel to Victoria
• $600,000 for Army Corps of Engineers for feasibility study for Sabine Pass to Galveston Bay
• $400,000 for Army Corps of Engineers for feasibility study for Feeport Harbor
• $100,000 for Army Corps of Engineers for feasibility study for Lower Guadalupe River Basin
• $400,000 for Army Corps of Engineers for preliminary engineering and design study at Freeport Harbor.
• $21.7 million for Army Corps of Engineers for construction at Houston Galveston Navigation Channel
• $2.165 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Trinity River
• $6.979 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Wallisville Lake
• $1.3 million for Army Corps of Engineers to study flooding around Colorado River
• $11 million for Army Corps of Engineers for construction at Wharton and Onion Creek
• $3.026 million for Army Corps of Engineers for Chocolate Bayou
• $533,000 for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain channel to Port Bolivar
• $41.623 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Houston Ship Channel
• $1.01 million for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Double Bayou
• $3 million for Army Corps of Engineers for construction at Clear Creek
• $500,000 for Army Corps of Engineers to maintain Port Palacios
• $100,000 for Army Corps of Engineers to study sand placement near Brazoria County shoreline
Subcommittee on Interior and the Environment: • $5 million for Fort Bend County for City of Kendleton water and sewer improvements
Subcommittee on Homeland Security: • $10 million for Coast Guard to improve Galveston Rail Causeway
• $8.8 million for FEMA for drainage at Cove Harbor in Aransas County
• $2.2 million for FEMA to reconfigure and stabilize Capano Causeway Pier
• $500,000 for FEMA for Aransas County drainage master plan
• $35 million for FEMA for drainage in Friendswood
• $10 million for FEMA for drainage project for Friendswood/Clear Creek
• $10 million for FEMA for drainage project for Friendswood/Clear Creek
• $5 million for FEMA to recycle household hazardous waste in Friendswood
Subcommittee on Transportation: • $1.96 million to replace buses in and around Victoria
• $2 million to renovate transit maintenance facility in Galveston
• $5 million to reconfigure Texas Clipper training ship
• $25,000 to install security cameras at Fox Run Apartments in Victoria
• $2 million to beautify Galveston Seawall and support Transit Access Program in Galveston
• $3.6 million to construct inter-modal transit facility in Victoria
• $3.5 million for analysis of commuter rail alternatives in Galveston
• $10.3 million for City of Bay City for NuBlac Youth/Community Center
• $2.2 million for City of Bay City for improvements to electrical wiring in low and moderate income housing
Subcommittee on Labor, HHS, Education: • $90,000 for Victoria Chamber of Commerce for business/career-related education for youth
• $248,942 for UTMB for employee wellness program for small businesses
• $1.748 million for University of Houston-Victoria for DNA testing and genetic diagnostic lab
• $300,000 for Bay City MEHOP for fund reinstatement of mobile unit
• $200,000 for Bay City MEHOP to recruit nurse practitioner
• $1.92 million for UTMB to study muscle mass loss in aging vs. microgravity (NASA related) at International Space Station National Lab
• $750,000 for Houston Memorial Hermann HealthCare system for Life Flight operations center
• $26 million for Washington, D.C. "Reading is Fundamental" program
• $10 million for Boston, Mass., "Reach Out and Read" national center
Says the National Taxpayers Union.
You forgot all the subsidies to shrimpers.
You know, a two year old can say “no!” And more consistently, too.
Fact is Ron Paul is just another King Pork.
Yet he voted against awarding a posthumous Congressional medal to the creator of the Peanuts comic strip.
I'm still trying to figure that one out.
Shrimp boats is a-comin’ Their sails are in sight
Shrimp boats is a-comin’ There’s dancin’ tonight
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Shrimp boats is a-comin’ Their pork is in sight
Shrimp boats is a-comin’ There’s doping tonight
Care to place a bet on how he’ll vote on legislation to eliminate them if he gets the chance?
If that doesn't define government waste, nothing does.
It was a sunk cost.
A total canard. An “earmark” is not a spending increase. None of the above are actual spending votes. The best measure of spending votes is by the National Taxpayers Union and Paul consistently ranks on its honor roll as one of the best....certainly ahead of McCrazy.
He is such a arrogant phony.
Earmarks in my district? Much deserved economic stimulus.
Earmarks in your district? Pork barrel politics of the worst possible type.
It always seems to depend on whose ox is being gored.
He’s a politician.
What do you expect???
Just because a bunch of pseudo-libertarian weed-smoking Troofer nutballs built a Web-based cult around him doesn’t make him better...
I’ve clocked your spin at 20 MHz...
Santa Rosa, California, where Charles Schultz lived, is not in Ron Paul’s district. Victoria, Texas, is in his district.
He's apparently the "King of earmarks", but nobody's willing to put up a dime that he'd vote against eliminating them. Imagine that.
I see. A $25 medal for Charles Schulz would be a waste of taxpayer money, but $25,000 for an apartment complex security camera system in his district is a fine use of funds from American taxpayers from all districts.
Got it.
He votes “NO” every year on the budget and grandstands on that. He only votes no when the deal is done and there’s no chance his vote will derail anything. He does consistently vote against aid to Israel, hence his popularity with stormfront and national alliance
In his defense, alot of those dollars are for infrastructure maintenance and reasonably appropriate. He also has a responsibility to bring home some of the tax dollars that are confiscated from his constituents.
Yes, but it would be nice if there was a bill to fund the Army Corps of Engineers, rather than to fund it through earmarks which get no debate.
And $200,000 to hire a nurse practioner?
Which article of the Constitution does that come under?
Ron Paul threads make me nostalgic for the good old days when Ron Paul and Julie Annie were still in the race and nothing was yet decided and the RINO relic was NOT the presumptive nominee.
Which article of the Constitution does that come under?
I guess you didn't read my post. I didn't defend all of it.
If the only thing that matters is maintaining the military operation in Iraq and everything else is easily negotiable or irrelevant, then he’s the perfect candidate.
I read your post. Show me where I missed your disapproval of any of his earmarks.
1) Don't have a problem with him bringing taxpayer dollars home to maintain infrastructure that is appropriately funded buy the fed gov.
2) Ron Paul has hundreds of thousands of constituents that have their paychecks and corporate profits confiscated for redistribution (I didn't notice your condemnation of that). If he brings some of that back to his district, fine by me. Better that than giving it to the save the gay spotted crybaby lizard crowd.
Would you prefer that his constituents' tax dollars just go to Washington and never come back to his district? For a couple of specifics, I disagree with $36m for reading programs. We have school for that.
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He’s my congressman, and he didn’t bring back anything for my area. Boo Hoo. I live at least 80 miles from any project he slipped into federal spending. Most are closer to double that.
I don’t object to him fighting for projects that deserve funding. But earmarks aren’t fighting at all.
And I object to him masquerading as the Taxpayer’s Best Friend when it would take half an hour to add up all the earmarks he’s proposed.
And his notorious votes against actions by Congress which he deems unconstitutional, when it doesn’t mean squat, fly in the face of his earmarks which have no better constitutional basis.
If he wants this spending, he should propose a bill for debate. He, of all people, should at least be willing to do that.
He’s a hypocrite, or at least a Barnum and Bailey showman.
Never fear. He’s unopposed in November, so he can do this crap for at least two more years.
Oh, he’s famous for voting against bills he knows will pass which contain his pork.
Very clever. You can claim to be against something you facilitated.
Many people are fooled.
Go to the head of the class! You have aced Basic Politics 101.
You spent that much time doing research on a GOP Presidential also-ran who has no chance of losing his House seat in November? You anti-Paul people are freaking weird.
That's doubtful.
Ron Paul believes, as the Founders did, that it is the responsibility of Congress to direct how federal funds are spent, not some appointed bureaucrat.
You can complain all you want about Congressmen putting their pet projects in the appropriations bills, but would you rather that a GS-13 deep in the bowels of the Department of Waste, Fraud and Abuse decide where our tax money is to be spent?
Actually, it was a flunky at the Houston Chronically Wrongical who wasted his time, under the false premise that these kinds of revelations would sink Dr. Paul's re-election. He's not their kind of Republican, if they even have a kind of Republican the editors of the Chronicle like.
Dog Gone did no more than cut-n-paste from the newspaper story.
Oh. And this was from April too. What was the point of putting this up other than to waste server space?
Well, genius, he happens to be my congressman, and this was from my local hometown newspaper.
How much freaking research did that require on my part?
It was worth it just to irritate the crap out of you.
Hey. Mission accomplished. But I can take comfort in the fact that as much as New Jersey sucks, I have one of the best congressmen out there, Mr. Scott Garrett. Google him. Condolences again about your boy Chris Peden.
Peden wasn’t really my boy. I don’t know very much about him except that he wasn’t named Ron Paul.
Is Ron Paul ever going to withdraw from the Presidential race?
Earmarks are NOT spending.
I don’t want Congressional earmarks to go away either. I’d much rather have Congress decide where the money gets spent, instead of the executive branch. Congresscritters who speak out against Congressional earmarks while voting FOR the spending bills are not committed to reducing federal spending.
If we were to elect 218 pro-earmark RP Republicans to the House and 51 in the Senate, earmarks would go away AND the federal budget would shrink dramatically.
This is one of the few things I’ve come to really disagree with Dr. Paul about. I’ve heard him give his reasoning for this stuff, but I just don’t support proposal of or voting for unConstitutional spending. I think if I had a chance to speak with him personally this would be one thing I would like to talk to him about-—to tell him that his supporters don’t just want him to vote no but also to refuse to propose any unConstitutional spending.
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