Mar 5, 2009 5:46pm
Last Night’s Question of the Day — Should Obama Sign the Spending Plan Full of Earmarks?
EmailLast night we asked you if the President should sign the spending bill despite all of the Congressional pet projects that have been tacked on. We clearly hit a nerve. Lots of responses. Here is a smattering:
Reilly wrote: "No, he should insist that all the earmarks be deleted from the bill and do what he ran on. Change."
"So much for the change he promised. The people can only take so much. ENOUGH IS ENOUGH!!!!!" wrote Rose.
Karen took on the members of Congress who are angling for their pet projects:
"Now is not the time to push a wish list. The elected officials work for us and we say NO."
While Deborah from North Carolina saw it differently:
"Let’s be real here. Obama WILL cut pork, but right now he has higher priorities."
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No, he needs to do just what he promised during the campaign….not claiming “this is last years business”.
Posted by: Debbie | March 5, 2009, 6:02 pm 6:02 pm
“Should Obama Sign the Spending Plan Full of Earmarks?”
Can we live without air?
Posted by: Kate | March 5, 2009, 6:05 pm 6:05 pm
No. I don’t care which party had how much of the pork.
But if he doesn’t there seems to be some sensible people, wearing both party jerseys, who are aligning to stop some of the nonsense.
At a time when we are stone cold broke, not yet dead from “global warming” the epa is hinting of more changes and restrictions to car companies on mileage and emmissions , more taxes and higher fuel prices with cap and trade, less homeowner deductions, more taxes on high income earners, people being laid off by the thousands and people loosing their retirements and nest eggs. With all the problems shouldn’t they get the economy-banks in better shape and then tackle the other stuff when some sign of recovery is showing?
Like I said before they are acting like kids with A.D.D and no meds for a week.
Posted by: david | March 5, 2009, 6:19 pm 6:19 pm
NOT NO BUT HHHEEEEELLLLL NO
Posted by: OBAMANATION | March 5, 2009, 6:20 pm 6:20 pm
I don’t believe ‘spendalot’ ohhhbama will give one moment of intellectual thought to NOT sign this porkulus bill. The puppet of the far left has not met a piece of bad legislation he wouldn’t sign, but oh, how he will tell you it was vile to sign it.
As far as the Omnibus bill NOT BEING HIS..it is. His party has added more and more pork to it (since his throning), and they will vote on it, and he will sign it. The Dem’s can spin it all they want, but anyone with common sense will know it is the Dems spending more of our hard earned money.
Posted by: cump | March 5, 2009, 6:25 pm 6:25 pm
Isn’t it interesting with the OVERWHELMING response against obamatons signing of this bill, not a peep out of Charlie Gibson on the air tonight about the results. I guess even a liberal newscaster can spin this!!
Posted by: Jack | March 5, 2009, 6:36 pm 6:36 pm
Candidate Obama said “no more earmarks” and yet I understand there continue to be hundreds of earmarks.
I voted for, continue to support and I believe Obama was the right choice for this country. However, he really needs to remember his promises during his campaigning.
Posted by: Constance Carlsen | March 5, 2009, 7:00 pm 7:00 pm
It’s called pork when it’s in someone else’s state.
It’s called progress when it’s in your own neighborhood.
Posted by: ddg | March 5, 2009, 7:17 pm 7:17 pm
I am so sick of the pork!! Obama has signed so many bills already and I don’t think he even knows what’s in them. His entire campaign was run on “Change” we got change, spending up the wazoo! This entire mess can be blamed on the government (dems and repulicans alike) They have no control, because their in bed with Fannie and Freddie and where was the SEC when they where warned of Madoff. Doing nothing as usual.We’re paying these people for what? Theyr’e too busy lining their own pockets and avoiding paying their taxes to care about us.
Posted by: jo | March 5, 2009, 7:20 pm 7:20 pm
he should VETO any bill with anykind og earmark.
GMC should go bankrupt. it is their only hope. get financial experts and straightdn out their bad bookkeeping.
this is getting even with GMC for the years 1950′s when they tore up the streetcar tracks in Milwaukee and Los Aneles so they could sell more cars.. and then had Standard build a oil orad from Los angeles as teh first freesay.
it is coming back to bite them in the butt after about 60 years..
Posted by: joannw | March 6, 2009, 12:11 am 12:11 am
It’s interesting to see how happy everyone is now, and it’s only been less then 60 days. This fraud and his cabnet of tax cheats are just getting started in their mission to distroy everything most of us have worked for.
The question is why? Who will provide the revenue this fraud and his morons need as Americans continue to lose what little they have? How about the all the voters that elected this fraud into office. Let them foot the bill for all their future intitelments. Opp’s, that may mean they have to start working for a living, thus paying taxes. Never mind.
Posted by: Michael D Herndon | March 6, 2009, 10:00 am 10:00 am
No! He should not sign, does he want to bankrupt us, are we being huckstered? Trying to contain the aggressive onslaught of one crisis after another in America is like everything else done in Washington. Part of understanding the flood of our on-the-skids perplexities is to read about how behavioral modification works, and then practice what we have collectively learned. Lobbyist and special interest groups allowed in the Halls of Congress are behaviors that began under President Grant’s administration, which has worsened over time.
A lobbyist is no different than a huckster on horse and wagon selling his wares in the streets – who puts a carrot before his horse to make him walk in a certain direction, we the people are not their horses. Such out of control political persuasions have now mushroomed into corrupting our legislators, and that was not intended by our founding fathers. Lobbying has created long term careers of graft and greed to flourish in Washington.
We should insist our government abandon this practice at once, and compell them to enforce the written laws of our nations constitution. Our country needs to also enforce our current immigration laws. Politicians talk a good game, while looking the other way at the many dangling carrots before them.
The Native American Indian said it best, “Great Chief in Washington Speak with Forked Tongue.” George E. Buttner
Posted by: George E. Buttner | March 6, 2009, 1:36 pm 1:36 pm
Earmarks and further spending do not repair our economy, they only add to our debt. Today, Washington DC has lost touch with the American hard working people, ignoring virtually every health/domestic issue while fighting a war nobody wants. Education, medical-care, mental-illness, alcoholism, homelessness, illegal immigration, broken borders, Cartel crime, foreign gangs, the collapse of Wall Street, rising gas prices, decaying roads and bridges, antiquated refineries and electrical power grids and more. Problems here at home have been allowed to mushroom out of control; while Congress uses a band-aid mentality on some very deep wounds, leaving a scar on the American way of life.
To help you better identify how these upsetting issues against the American people and how they got started, we find people and drugs are streaming across our southern borders and our government does nothing to stop it. Fix the border and we fix most of what ails our country. We the people need to speak up!
As it is in most Democratic Societies, politicians have been swayed by big business lobbyist and special interest groups to look the other way and twitter while the nation burns.
George E. Buttner
Posted by: George E. Buttner | March 6, 2009, 1:47 pm 1:47 pm