Posted on 06/14/2007 9:27:37 AM PDT by Syncro
Explanation of the term “earmarks”, for those of you who were not swine farmers:
When pigs are born, they have a great tendency to look identical to human eyes. To distinguish them, the swine herdsman places notches, made with a clipper that takes out a “V” shaped notch out of the edge of the newborn pig’s ear.
There is a complete system of marking, based on location and number of the notches, that identify the sow mother, and various other criteria the swine herdsman is looking for in growing and maintaining the progeny. The mark remains with the pig for its lifetime, and serves to provide a crude genealogy if the pig is selected to be retained in the breeding herd.
So you can see the connection with “pork”. The earmarks are just a guide to assure the right people know the genesis of the benefits that come showering down upon them from the Federal treasury.
Earmarks by State- Pay close attention to the ORIGINAL Pelosi-proposed amounts!
Example-$700+ out of an original proposed $750,000 fence for Kentucky’s Big Sandy Airport!
http://earmarks.omb.gov/by-state/summary.html
That is double plus ungood!
Thank you for the link.
You pose and interesting question.
Dem's were viewed positively before the last election. Now the leading dem in the senate has a 3% approval and the congress has only a 19% approval so, it has been good for america to bring the dem part out of its lies and the closet. The issues are still the same so, they have done little yet surfaced their corruption. All and all a positive I'd say.
Hey! It's over, stop bitching about it and start doing something to hold Republicans feet to the fire! The opportunity we have now is no less than perfectly ripe to take every advantage we can to remove the rino/moderates and get back the conservative principled leadership we need!
I didn't agree either with the people who wanted to teach repubs a lesson, but it's been done now and we all need to do all we can to make sure Conservatism reigns!
The time is NOW!
Hey! It's over, stop bitching about it and start doing something to hold Republicans feet to the fire! The opportunity we have now is no less than perfectly ripe to take every advantage we can to remove the rino/moderates and get back the conservative principled leadership we need!
I didn't agree either with the people who wanted to teach repubs a lesson, but it's been done now and we all need to do all we can to make sure Conservatism reigns!
The time is NOW!
These extremely vain and pompous people, enduring face lift after face lift, have no idea where their ears have wound up.
Considering the out put from their mouth’s , expressing exactly what has entered their ears, tells the rest of us the exact present locale of their ears.
Anyone who believes a word any of these politicians say needs to have his head examined.
Carolyn
Amen. You hit the nail on the head!
Ping for later
Instead, let’s forget the words ‘Madam Speaker’.
Anyone notice that the Congress has even a lower approval rating then Bush?
A smart candidate would harness that “angry at DC” feeling among the voters ala Reagan in 1980.
Nancy’s gonna need a new lipstick for that pig...
This from a guy defending Bush's tone-deafness towards angry anti-amnesty conservatives.
Ask Bush. He's the one allying with Reid, Pelosi and Ted Kennedy to get shamnesty passed. The new political alignment doesn't seem to be bothering him all that much.
We are talking about earmarks, not immigration. You must have a tough time reading, huh?
So you wanna talk earmarks? I know, the GOP Congress and President Bush sure held the line on earmarks. It's a damn shame they can't block those any longer.
Oops, wait, earmarks grew like crazy under that crew.
So what IS your point?
My point is this thread is about democrats and earmarks, not immigration. You immigration freepers hijack non-immigration threads regularly now. That is my point but I doubt you will get it or care. Likewise I could care less about what you post.
I posted that pubbies helped grow this earmark mess. Guess you don't want to be bothered with the facts, eh?
Here, let me freshen up your Kool-Aid for you.
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