Change? Not really.
President Obama is taking a page from ex-President Bill Clinton's book with his statement that there are "no earmarks" in this travesty of a bill they call the Economic Recovery Act. You have to parse his words similar to the way we had to under Clinton (remember how "is" was re-defined?).
Yes, not one congressman added "earmarks" as the bill went through it's approval process. That is because they DID NOT HAVE TO; they already added everything they wanted for every project and experiment when the bill was written. The stuff built into the bill would have been pork and "earmarks" under a normal spending bill. They wrote it; they threw the kitchen sink into it...
So Obama's statement was at best disingenuous at worse an outright lie. You decide which but remember what a lie is..."a type of deception in the form of an untruthful statement with the intention to deceive..."
The Congressional Budget Office (CBO), a not so conservative outfit, just reported that the GDP will actually REDUCE over ten years with this bill. If we do nothing, the CBO says we would have less debt and the GDP would be HIGHER.
Do nothing is an option unlike another statement that Obama made during his press conference yesterday. It is better to not pass this monster...
Ask yourself why they want this bill so badly and so fast? The cover story is stimulus but READ what is in there...don't listen to how it is presented.
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