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Cowlesy
12-15-2010, 09:22 PM
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http://www.semissourian.com/story/1687936.html


Redistribution on steroids
Wednesday, December 15, 2010
Mike Jensen
Rep. Cleaver has proposed a $48 billion earmark

When absurdity gives way to hilarity, you must be talking about politics.

In the midst of a colossal global concern for the economic stability of our great nation, Emanuel Cleaver, Missouri's 5th Congressional District representative, has one small earmark on his wish list that deserves some attention.

Cleaver has listed a new earmark -- one of several -- and he promises to "fight for every one." But this is a whopping $48 billion package that must go down as the grandaddy of all earmarks.

Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country.

Just call this redistribution on steroids.

Cleaver's office says this of the proposal:

"The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance.

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PeacePlan
12-15-2010, 09:29 PM
Sounds like a worthy cause to me just tack it on to the trillions we owe.

oyarde
12-15-2010, 09:34 PM
48 B IS ONE HUGE EARMARK . We will have to select a more appropriate name for it than that . Maybe name it after one of the smaller planets or something .

Jordan
12-15-2010, 09:44 PM
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oyarde
12-15-2010, 09:47 PM
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Pretty good !

james1906
12-15-2010, 11:19 PM
Why stop at the inner city? I'd like some money to buy stuff. Suburbia needs their fix too.

angelatc
12-15-2010, 11:22 PM
No doubt one of the first things accomplished will be naming the Epicenter after Cleaver.