Posted on 03/21/2022 8:15:17 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
The bill is 2,700 pages – the length of ten books.
Congress had less than one day to read the bill before they voted. President Biden has already signed off — a $1.5 trillion omnibus spending bill. Magic!
Do we really have a representative republic if our representatives don't even know what they are voting on?
Here are just a few examples of what was in the bill:
$1 million for a “farm-to-refrigerator training facility” in Pennsylvania
$2 million for George Mason University’s Center for Climate Change
$2.5 million for a museum in Vermont.
$3 million for a fisherman’s coop facility in Guam
These examples represent only four of 4,400 earmarks in the bill.
Earmarks are the 'currency of corruption in Congress.' It's legal bribery to give away member pet projects for votes.
(It took 367 pages alone just to list the earmarks!)
Republicans cheered a 6% increase in defense spending. Democrats cheered a 7% increase in social services and executive administration spending.
And, presto, you — the taxpayer — are paying for all of it.
Every line item should have its budget reduced 10% across the board.
Departments that do NOT overspend this year keep the budget, reduced by 5%, those that overspend have their budget reduced an additional 15%.
Year over year for 10 years should solve most issues...
Ask the nineteen republican Senators that voted for it.
My guess is $1.49 trillion dollars.
I was gonna say that🙂…
“It’s legal bribery to give away member pet projects for votes.”
Its bribing people with their own money.
Probably about $2 trillion in waste of the $1.5.
I think my estimate is more accurate.
This is easy to answer. $1.50 Trillion!
How much waste? $1.5 trillion.
You seem to have drawn a stronger hand than me, cowboy. :)
Another good question: what percentage of it is for something Congress has an enumerated Power to spend money on?
The one exception is the Military Budget and not the Black Military Budget because they always get what ever they want. Then if the agency/department can PROVE that they need more $$$ we will talk...
How much waste?
All of it.
You just said. It’s a $1.5T bill. Why are we asking how much waste?
All of it.
Government spending is always waste, with few exceptions. If there were REAL demand for the things the government pays for, those things would already be provided by the private sector. The government distorts the economy by purchasing things with money obtained through coercion (tax) at prices HIGHER than any private demand would support. This diverts resources to huge amounts of unwanted “production” that is used by government to do what they like to do best: buy votes and enrich themselves.
The only justified government spending is for a few items like military, which needs to be maintained even in peacetime, and the LEGITIMATE cost of operating the government (rents, salaries, etc.). Note that the ONLY valid use of military is to maintain a defensive capability. “Projection of power” is imperialistic and serves only to antagonize, increasing the likelihood of war.
The very worst, and most wasteful, government spending is that financed by debt and expansion of the money supply, which debases the currency and destroys private wealth.
While most of the spending bill is likely waste, the real damage in these Christmas tree bills are the provisions for new regulations and power granted to unelected bureaucrats.
How much waste?
$4.98 Trillion +/-
How Much Waste Is In The $1.5 Trillion Spending Bill?
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The 20% dark o’ thirty pay raise for themselves is more than a waste
It’s a slap and Chubb in the face of every legal u.s. citizen.
Dirty rat bastages.
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