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Originally Posted by Mizzou B-ball fan
Yeah, I'm not sure I could disagree more with that characterization. Minimizing the impact of things being added to bills is off the mark. There's a lot of things that are snuck through that should never see the light of day. The stimulus bill was a fine example of legislators passing a law not even fully knowing what they were voting on. Your percentage is also very much up for argument, as the criteria used for wasteful endeavors depending on the person defining it can be different depending on who's making that judgement.
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The percent is for earmarks, not wasteful spending.
I'm not arguing wasteful spending or whether the politicians read the bill or not. I'm just saying that most Americans don't give a shit about it right now. Especially when the cries come from the party that had tons of wasteful spending and earmarks this decade. It's tough to act fiscally conservative when you just dumped trillions into a pointless war in Iraq that killed thousands of Americans.