Obama Releases Earmark Requests

I listened to Pres. Bush speak today with a stance that promotes free trade. I voted for the man and have defended his positions many times. When I look around me, I see factories closed, gas prices rising, food prices sky rocket because of the alternate fuel projects. Has no one noticed that a pound of butter is $4.79 this past week? Meanwhile I notice politicians becoming very rich from service to our country. Whether it is a mayor of a city, a governor of a state, a judge (family, supreme or appellate), a congressman or a president, they greatly increase their personal wealth from personal deals made in office. I travel around the country and see cities like Rochester, NY reduced to vacant lots as they demolish what was once Kodak, a major employer now reduced to rubble. This situation is repeated across the country. Pres. Bush said reeduction is the key to this dilema. My son is in technology in Massachusetts. They are outsourcing his company to Brazil. Congress reponds to this oozing of jobs by awarding defense contracts to foreign countries. Meanwhile the kickbacks and private deals make them rich while they promise us the world and deliver nothing. Just look at the Clintons. I am a non believer in any politician holding my interest as “primary” in their agenda. We furnish them homes, clothing, protection, a good wage, expense accounts and the best food and booze money can bye. They repay us with betrayal. Meanwhile fuel prices sky rocket to “nudge” americans and ecologist to back off on protecting lands in Alaska or air quality. Pres Bush used this in todays speach. Leverage is a great tactic in business, but this leverage is impacting families in a critical way. Politicians know this and laugh as they “control” the pressure. They try to make us believe that markets cannot be manipulated. That may have been true in history, but not today. Not with corporate trades and institutional trading. I hear the common man cry out for help. I hear the rhetoric of politics. No one is protecting the people. I am ashamed of my congress and my president.

The question to ask is who are the companies which will provide the work for the monies earmarked, especially in the energy sector.

THis is OBAMA’s economic plan for the nation.

Obama is a crook and a criminal who needs to be investigated. So far, the media has pussyfoot around him. He needs to come out and clearly denounce his association with the other criminals Rev. Jermey Wright, William C. Ayers, and Tony Rezko.
Of course, this is only the start of Obama’s dirt. If he becomes the nominee, the Republicans will eat him alive.

$500 M? What a crook Obama is.

Earmarks are representatives trying to get money for their district, and not allowing Washington to tell us what we can and cannot have from our government. There is nothing wrong with earmarks. The main problem is corporate welfare (tax breaks and no collection of taxes from corporations, who ship jobs overseas) why does Bill Gates need a tax cut or a tax exemption? To create jobs overseas, while encouraging low wage illegal immigrants to flood our borders, and buying talent from other countries while ignoring the job pool from within the US. An open border and flood of unskilled workers, destroys the wage structure and destroys the middle class. All canidates (especially McCain) support this. If you think anyone of these canidates will do one thing for the American worker, just look at what NAFTA, GAT, and the WTO have done since their inception to our economy. Hell when Clinton first came in office, Michael Moore did a segment on the people who were laid off with upper middle class jobs, and had to take two jobs to replace their income; So in Clinton’s eyes it was a net gain of +1 job, even though they were downsized and had to take an extra lower paying job to get by. That is what is supposed to be the great economic plan of the Democrats, whie Republicans just want to give tax cuts for the wealthy and to the corporations who don’t even pay taxes in the first place thanks to tax havens overseas. The real plan to save the economy is to stop all of this welfare paying for the defense of countries that can afford to pay for their own national defense. Why are we in 700 countries, why aren’t those troops back home securing the border? (You know that pesky Homeland Security thing???) We are a poorer nation and our security is threatened by being spread too thin overseas, and investing everywhere except our own country. A country that is financially unsound and who is protecting the soverignity of everyone but their own border, cannot and will not stand.

WestCoastMessenger,
Clinton spent 5 times more then Obama did on earmark. Is THAT her economic plans??? Is this were my tax dollars are going???

Now, we are seeing the shady side of Obama. How strange that Crown was unaware of the request, but then thats the way that Obama has been getting away with all trash thrown at him. He lets his so called “buddies” answer for him as he is not man enough to take it himself without turning into a whinning baby. It’s beyound me all the things that have come up about him and people still have the odasity to protect him. All I say is that God help us if this man is elected president. If we think our nation is in bad shape now, wait and see what it will turn out to be by electing Obama for president. I, for one am not going to be responsible for putting him in office, I would rather vote for McCain.

Shame on Obama for not repudiating his pastor!

You will not see hers that in itself will tell you she is dirty,underhanded and being bought by the big companys which she will owe favors to IF she gets in the White House(Notice I said, IF>>>>> …Sick of it time for the little guy here boys and gals….

Obama’s interview in the CNN did not make any damage control.. There is already big damage to his credibility and his judgment. The new pastor in his life now is a ridicolous solution..by the way.. Americans are not born stupid.. that is why this nation is the most powerful nation in the world because of people who are smart enough to know the difference between the truth from lies. between a good person and a slime politician.. and between a fair and a inflammatry statements. What Obama should do is to be man enough to withdraw from the race because the democratic party needs someone who can beat Mc Cain. He should retain the American pride of accepting the fact that his candidacy has already ended, he is doomed to fail in the general election. Save the democratic party

Obama withdraw from the race.. Save the democratic party.

Hillary Clinton refuses to release her earmarks for 2007 and 2008 and she refuses to release her Tax Returns for 2006 and 2007, eventhough she claims to support “transparency in government” apparently she is above reproach. Why won’t Hillary release these? Is she hiding something? By the time she is demanded to release them, we will all be duped and Hillary would have stolen the Nomination!

At least Mr. Obama has the honesty to reveal his earmark requests. Sorry, the same can not be said for Mrs. Clinton. The most the public was able to gather is that her earmark requests far exceeded Mr. Obamas. WHY DO YOU THINK SHE IS STALLING?
Just wait for the fireworks to begin after she reluctantly releases hers. This begs the question: “Just what dirt and skulduggery is she hiding?”

Should these earmark request be public information? If not, why aren’t they?!