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The One
03-10-2009, 04:20 PM
If this video has already been posted, I'm :o.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fq_5H1XKVww
Trigonx
03-10-2009, 04:32 PM
hell yeah, good speech
ItsTime
03-10-2009, 04:38 PM
I say zero earmarks and let King Obama decided who gets the money.
TXcarlosTX
03-10-2009, 04:48 PM
ron paul is to smart....
Live_Free_Or_Die
03-10-2009, 04:59 PM
After watching that I opened my window and yelled out "I am mad as hell and I am not gonna take it anymore". :)
Jeremy
03-10-2009, 05:17 PM
People (like my poli sci prof) have always tried to explain to me why they aren't bad, but they never made this much sense.
Bruno
03-10-2009, 06:13 PM
What Ron Paul said.

anyone listening? Congress? MSM? Disinformed Americans?
FrankRep
03-10-2009, 06:27 PM
Clears things up
Dripping Rain
03-10-2009, 08:10 PM
this was one of the best explanations of earmarks. thanks Ron Paul
qh4dotcom
03-10-2009, 08:12 PM
RP has a valid argument about returning tax money stolen from his constituents back to them through earmarks, however as far as I know he has never explained where he gets the amounts he asks for each earmark and why some of his questionable earmarks are not waste.

And it's not fair that most folks in his district don't get their money back and a few privileged ones do...especially if those who do laugh their way to the bank....so what RP is doing is a transfer of wealth from the people in his district who don't get their money back to those who do.
Conza88
03-10-2009, 10:11 PM
That is now a rebuttal to anything the retards on digg say.
specsaregood
03-10-2009, 10:15 PM
And it's not fair that most folks in his district don't get their money back and a few privileged ones do...especially if those who do laugh their way to the bank....so what RP is doing is a transfer of wealth from the people in his district who don't get their money back to those who do.

I'm not certain be he sure makes it sound like he submits any earmarks his constituents ask him to submit. I'm sure he has some criteria for submitting them, but it doesn't sound like he is too stringent.
A. Havnes
03-11-2009, 08:55 AM
They're all not railing on him like Cavuto was. I pleased to find this CNN article (http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/11/news/economy/earmark_primer/index.htm?postversion=2009031109)today. It does a decent job of explaining that earmarks don't equal new spending.
Conza88
03-11-2009, 09:17 AM
They're all not railing on him like Cavuto was. I pleased to find this CNN article (http://money.cnn.com/2009/03/11/news/economy/earmark_primer/index.htm?postversion=2009031109)today. It does a decent job of explaining that earmarks don't equal new spending.

See the blatant flip?... AGAIN!

It used to be everyone railing on him, EXCEPT Cavuto.
mello
03-11-2009, 10:18 AM
Questions:

Dr. Paul mentioned that it's the Job of Congress to dole out this money as earmarks. If
they don't, then that money goes to the Executive branch for them to spend. Can't
Congress make earmarks that go towards paying our debt? Can Dr. Paul make an
earmark for $100,000,000 that would go towards paying our debt with China?

He also mentioned that earmarks only account for 1% of the spending. How do we find
out what the government is spending with that other 99%?
ladyjade3
03-11-2009, 10:34 AM
Questions:

How do we find
out what the government is spending with that other 99%?

Simple: Earmark it.

Also, remember we're talking requests. Request =/= In the bill.
weslinder
03-11-2009, 10:55 AM
He also mentioned that earmarks only account for 1% of the spending. How do we find out what the government is spending with that other 99%?
http://www.usaspending.gov/