Earmarks

Earmarks. Why is this procedure even allowed. I would think it would be illegal. I always thought this was a Democrat tool. The pork helped ensure their re-elections and was a way to reward campaign support. Well, the Republicans are just a guilty. Mitch McConnell has 118 earmarks in the current omnibus bill. Here he is ranting about the Democrats loading the bill with earmarks and he is just as bad. Their/his reason........if they don't get their pet projects financed, their voters/constituents will be getting the short end. If the Democrats take their earmarks out Republicans will take theirs out. I think everyone in DC is tone def. They just don't get it. QUIT SPENDING/WASTING OUR MONEY!!!!!! No more earmarks...none...zip...zero.... period. If you want your pet projects funded, bring them up in an appropriations bill, not hide it in another unrelated bill!! How about making the states fund their own projects. If they can't afford it, save until they do have it like everyone else!! Even though I am a card carrying Conservative Republication..... I'll vote for an Independent if I think my Republican candidate is being disingenuous. I'd never vote for a Democrat based on their current philosophy.

Bush tax Cuts

In November I blogged the following: "Keep track on how many times you hear those scare tactics. Those are the buzz words that the Democrats use to get their votes....."save the teachers/children, firemen and police"....WHO can vote against them? If the teachers, firemen and police had received all the money the Democrats had promised, they would be the highest paid employees in America. You would think that the teachers, firemen and Police would be upset that the Democrats use them as "Poster Children" yet they keep receiving peanuts."
Nancy Polsie has said it again. By raising the tax rates on the very rich they can use some of the additional taxes to give our teachers a raise. This is one of the Dems. argument's about extending the Bush Tax cuts. Save the Middle class but raise the rates for the very wealthy. Evidently the Dems. have done some polling and this tactic works......on the ignorant and ill informed.... which is exactly the Dems. voting base. I just wish the American people would understand that by making the Bush Tax cuts permanent does not change the tax structure as it is right now. This has been the tax structure for close to 10 years. The difference....the Dems. need more money to spend....pure and simple!!! After the 2012 elections there will not be much of the Democratic Party left.