http://www.freerepublic.com/tag/pork/ en-us Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:51:46 GMT Focus Forum 15 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412832/posts Senator Christopher Dodd, facing an uphill battle for his senate seat next year, received a little Christmas present from Harry Reid in the health care reform "manager's amendment:" a $100 million plum for a hospital. The AP reports that the $100 million will be used for "a health care facility that provides research, inpatient tertiary care, or outpatient clinical services." It must be affiliated with an academic health center at a public research university in the United States "that contains a State's sole public academic medical and dental school." Would it surprise you to learn that Connecticut has only one... The American Thinker Blog http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2412832/posts#comment Tue, 22 Dec 2009 10:51:46 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410357/posts A $626 billion Pentagon budget narrowly advanced in the Senate Friday morning but not before Washington’s political battles seemed to eclipse the real wars of Iraq and Afghanistan overseas. The whole Senate scene, played out in a post midnight session on a freezing night, dramatized how poisonous the atmosphere has become in the health care fight. Politico http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2410357/posts#comment Fri, 18 Dec 2009 14:22:03 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406100/posts Foxnews http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2406100/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 15:52:47 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406306/posts Senator Mary Landrieu (D-La) rejected the notion that determining the Constitutionality of pending legislation was part of her job. The Senator’s shucking of this responsibility came in response to a questioner asking her where in the US Constitution is there the authority for congress to force people to buy health insurance. “My job is to get all I can for my constituents,” Landrieu argued. “Unlike most of my peers, I got $300 million in added benefits for my constituents in exchange for my vote in favor of the health care bill. I’m not going to let myself be bothered by... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2406306/posts#comment Sat, 12 Dec 2009 22:45:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405709/posts Health Care Shocker: Special Democratic Voting Counties Would Get Protected Medicare Benefits http://www.breitbart.tv/healthcare-shocker-special-democratic-voting-counties-would-get-protected-medicare-benefits/ BREITBART.TV http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2405709/posts#comment Fri, 11 Dec 2009 21:48:56 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404930/posts Last year's budget deficit of 10 percent of the economy ($1.4 trillion) shattered the post-war record. Far from just a temporary result of the recession, current estimates show the budget deficit rising to nearly $2 trillion by 2019.[2] At that point, the debt would be nearly 100 percent of the economy. Heritage Foundation http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2404930/posts#comment Thu, 10 Dec 2009 22:40:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403943/posts Mark Tijssen, a major in the Canadian military, stands in front of a meat smoker containing the remains of a pig that could cost him thousands of dollars in fines. Tijssen's family home was raided by members of the Intelligence and Investigations Section of the Ministry of Natural Resources and Ottawa Police last month while he was preparing a pizza dinner for children on a Friday night. Mark Tijssen's family has been slaughtering their own animals and handing that skill from father to son for at least three generations. But changes to Ontario's Food Safety Act has landed him and... The Ottawa Citizen http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2403943/posts#comment Wed, 9 Dec 2009 20:00:38 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399590/posts The cost of a new jobs bill Democrats hope to move early next year runs to nearly $300 billion when major proposals under serious consideration are added up. Lawmakers are calling for extending aid to the unemployed, infrastructure spending, a hiring tax credit and increased small business loans. A number of the jobs proposals backed by Democrats make up a $230 billion package proposed by Mark Zandi of Moody's Economy.com, who made a presentation to Senate Democrats Wednesday. The provisions supported by Zandi along with new spending on infrastructure, a favored approach of top House Democrats, would cost between $291... The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2399590/posts#comment Thu, 3 Dec 2009 20:17:48 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397498/posts Scientists in the Netherlands have created pig in a test tube. Debate has already started on whether it will save the world, or just throw vegetarians into a quandary. In the meantime, the researchers may be in line for a celebratory feast: They could be the new front-runners for a million-dollar prize offered by a major animal rights group. The research team, funded by a major sausage maker and the Dutch government, used cells from a live pig to grow pork muscle tissue in a Petri dish. After extracting cells called myoblasts from the muscle of a live pig, the... Sphere http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397498/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 12:34:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397489/posts The Congressional Budget Office late Monday said it estimates that the federal stimulus package sustained between 600,000 and 1.6 million jobs in the third quarter, and raised gross domestic product by 1.2 to 3.2 percentage points higher than it would have been without the program. Wall Street Journal http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2397489/posts#comment Tue, 1 Dec 2009 11:54:32 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395080/posts The Democrats are at it again.With unemployment passing 10% the President's party is looking at fixing a problem the only way they know how, throw some money at it. Yes we are talking Porkulus II. The Democrats are working on a growing list of relief efforts, leaving for later how to pay for them, or whether even to bother. If you are looking at tax cuts to be part of the package, I wouldn't hold my breath. Here's an Idea maybe they have Charlie Rangel pay the taxes he forgot about and we can use that for a tax rebate.... LA Times/The Lid http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2395080/posts#comment Thu, 26 Nov 2009 20:08:24 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393772/posts Glenn Beck and Rush Limbaugh make deeply offensive comments on a near daily basis on their respective radio programs. Mostly, I don't feel the need to draw attention to them. But yesterday both men crossed into completely unacceptable territory. Followers of the health care debate will know that Louisiana Senator Mary Landrieu is high on the list of moderate Democrats who may ultimately vote against the bill. On Saturday, she was the second last Senator to lend her vote to a motion to open debate on the bill. Part of her motivation to consent came form a concession she successfully... Newsweek http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2393772/posts#comment Tue, 24 Nov 2009 22:07:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392844/posts All it took for Senator Mary Landrieu to vote to open debate on the Democrats' leviathan health care reform measure was a hundred million. Or was it $300 million, as Landrieu claims? That's $100 million in aid to Louisiana for disaster relief plus another $200 million for Medicaid or whatever else she could weasel. And whatever she's saying about being undecided on final passage, don't buy it. The only way she'll cart off the dough is if the bill passes. But while the senator is preening like a peacock about the fat she plans to ladle from the federal pork... The American Thinker http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2392844/posts#comment Mon, 23 Nov 2009 20:05:51 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390342/posts November 19, 2009 Politics as Usual? A Glenn Beck case study Today's Show Segment Video-6:15 Fox News-Glenn Beck Show http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2390342/posts#comment Fri, 20 Nov 2009 00:58:27 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381803/posts Now that Senator Joe Lieberman (ID-Conn) has indicated he may vote against the President’s health care legislation his Democratic colleagues in the Senate are contemplating how to persuade him to come back into line with the Democratic Party’s position on the issue. Senator Tom Harkin (D-Iowa) warned Lieberman that “bad things may happen to him if he can’t fully support the Democratic Party’s agenda. If he’s raising supposed ‘matters of conscience’ or placing his notion of duty to his constituents or the good of the nation ahead of loyalty to the Democratic Party, he should have to pay a price.... A Semi-News/Semi-Satire from AzConservative http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2381803/posts#comment Mon, 9 Nov 2009 00:44:37 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381518/posts As of 11-6-09 The signed stimulus contracts for non-government business is at $32,511,586,374.70 (Billion). One third of this amount is for pharmaceuticals preparation manufacturers $11,285,033,973.18 (Billion) Base and All Options Value From the TAS Recovery chart on the site link. Federal Procurement Data System http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2381518/posts#comment Sun, 8 Nov 2009 15:45:01 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377937/posts Ron Paul vindicated once again, globalists loose their lunch. Rock on Dr Paul! Bring it The Hill http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2377937/posts#comment Wed, 4 Nov 2009 03:03:30 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377573/posts Interactive map and links to earmark spending by state. WashingtonWatch.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2377573/posts#comment Tue, 3 Nov 2009 18:35:52 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374123/posts The hits just keep on coming, while you wait in line, Gitmo detainees will have their vaccines delivered,...these are the fools running our country...(Story here) hotairpundit http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2374123/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 23:55:06 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373464/posts TUSCALOOSA | The Tuscaloosa City Council Finance Committee voted to move ahead with an $8.5 million bond issue rather than waiting a year as Mayor Walt Maddox recommended. The committee's vote is a recommendation to the full City Council, but a straw ballot of council members, who were all present at the committee meeting, indicated that a majority favors the bond issue. On a 20-year repayment schedule, the bond issue would cost the city about $650,000 a year in debt service. The council had asked Maddox for a recommended list of projects. The estimated total and the annual debt service... The Tuscaloosa News http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2373464/posts#comment Thu, 29 Oct 2009 05:40:08 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368731/posts The government's economic stimulus spending has already had its biggest impact and probably won't contribute to significant growth next year, a top White House adviser said Thursday. Christina Romer, the chair of President Barack Obama's Council of Economic Advisers, said the initial jolt of the $787 billion stimulus expanded the economy in the second and third quarters of this year. But she said the remaining spending will simply keep the economy from slipping. "By mid-2010," she said, "fiscal stimulus will likely be contributing little to further growth." That assessment underscored the fragility of an economic recovery marked by stubbornly high... Google AP http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2368731/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 21:23:13 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368009/posts Below are some suggestions for lawmakers and judges to bring about a more just country: Intolerance-Justice should be based on each case and circumstance involving current law and precedent. The idiotic case of six-year-old Zachary Christie is akin to the type of lack of foresight that has parents throughout the land scratching their heads. Zachary had NO CLUE he was committing a crime with a nonflexible sentence of 45 days in a reform school. His crime? As a proud new Cub Scout, he brought a multifaceted eating and tool utensil to his school to show his little friends. Conclusion? When... www.daveweinbaum.com http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2368009/posts#comment Thu, 22 Oct 2009 01:10:45 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367634/posts 7 promises that then candidate Obama has already broken. We hope that all the people of the ObamaNation are happy with their president. You Tube http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-bloggers/2367634/posts#comment Wed, 21 Oct 2009 17:18:12 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365975/posts The House and Senate Armed Services Committees have taken a small but significant step to eliminate – well, almost – one of the most outrageous congressional behaviors in defense legislation. For years, these committees have raided the Pentagon’s critical Operation and Maintenance accounts to offset the cost of earmarks (pork) they add to their bills. A major part of the O&M budget pays for training, weapons maintenance, food, fuel, spare parts, and all the other things troops need when they go to war. Even though O&M spending is the budgetary embodiment of “Support Our Troops,” and even though research on these raids... DOD Buzz http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365975/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 19:56:25 GMT http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365881/posts The Congressional Pig Book is Citizens Against Government Waste's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2009 Pig Book identified 10,160 projects at a cost of $19.6 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2009...Search all 10,160 projects by keyword, member, state, party or appropriations bill. http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2009 http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/f-news/2365881/posts#comment Mon, 19 Oct 2009 17:47:10 GMT