Tea Partiers Requested More than $1 Billion in Earmarks - CBS News

[JohnWxy]

This is from Dec 2, 2010. Anybody hear anything more current on this?

http://www.cbsnews.com/8301-503544_162-20024384-503544.html

Influenced largely by the Tea Party, Republicans in Congress this year have taken a firm stance against earmarks to show their commitment to cutting back government spending.

It turns out, however, that members of the House Tea Party Caucus requested more than $1 billion in earmarks in the 2010 fiscal year, the National Journal reports.

After reviewing data compiled by Citizens Against Government Waste, the National Journal found that several of the 52 Tea Party caucus members made requests for earmarks -- federal funds that go to specific districts for specific companies or projects. In all, Tea Party caucus members requested a total of 764 earmarks valued at $1,049,783,150.

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[Angry Dragon]

Scum and liars

[Drale]

1. You mean the tea baggers are going against everything the ran on??

SHOCKING!!! :sarcasm:

[Rosa Luxemburg]

2. Call them out NOW

maybe Keith could make a list of their earmarks

[muntrv]

3. Pubs to Teabaggers: PSYCHE!!!!

[d_r]

4. but they've learned from the error of their ways

[donheld]

5. Tea Party = Hypocrisy Party

[Dokkie]

6. am shocked. not

then again its only about 0.029% of the total US budget(@ 3.5 trillion)

[JohnWxy]

7. HOw's this: Repeal of Affordable Healthcare law will add $230 Billion to deficit - CBO

http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2011/01/06/AR2011010606159.html?wpisrc=nl_headline


Rescinding the federal law to overhaul the health-care system, the first objective of House Republicans who ascended to power this week, would ratchet up the federal deficit by about $230 billion over the next decade and leave 32 million more Americans uninsured, according to congressional budget analysts.

...the Congressional Budget Office also predicts that most Americans would pay more for private health insurance if the law were repealed. The 10-page forecast was delivered Thursday to House Speaker John A. Boehner (R-Ohio), installed a day earlier to shepherd the new GOP majority. He immediately dismissed it.

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[Dokkie]

8. I will say this again

the $500 billion saving/cut/restructure to medicare program is what makes it a deficit. My problem is, why not give medicare the same treatment even if HCR is repealed? why continue with the waste? that way you can have an even bigger deficit reduction instead of the $230 billion in 10 yrs