Republican Earmark Hypocrisy

Senate Republicans took a lot of heat for stuffing a bill with millions of their own earmarks, then trying to claim they oppose earmarks. But Republicans' earmark hypocrisy is even starker when you compare what they are saying in Washington, DC to what they are saying to their constituents back home.

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[dswynne]

@weiner66 Medicare fraud alone is $68 billion dollars per year, and you blame insurance companies for malfeasance? Speaking of which, those higher premiums are the result of high regulation and mandates, and these companies earn a net profit margin of 5%. Ergo, you don't know what you are talking about.

[dswynne]

@weiner66 And further evidence that you miss the point. Everyone knows that earmarks are tiny compared to the rest of the budget; the point is that the gov't should be frugal in terms of its spending habit. If politicians can't control their need to spend on pet projects, what makes you think they are inclined to reform the big ticket items (entitlements, the military budget and discretionary spending), as long as the chump change pleases special interests? THAT's the problem on BOTH sides.

[weiner66]

@dswynne limited attention? If they can get away with charging that much for something everyone is familiar with, how much price fixing happens with all the rest, the electronic gear, the tourniquets, thermometers, linens, everything and of course the drugs?

I'd say do the math, but I'm talking to a numskull. False issues are what lying pols use to round up the dummies like you. And you're probably one of em screaming hands off my Medicare.

[weiner66]

@dswynne Further evidence that pinheads like you can't figure out a chart or table, (assuming you would ever get near one). Earmarks have averaged around 20 billion since 91. Total Medicare benefits paid in 2009 were 509 billion. Eurozone countries like Germany pay half what the US does for health care, and still their overall health is better. Cost gouging through the private insurance system is on par with that.  $16 for aspirin for a week's stay in a hospital never caught your ...

[dswynne]

@cmfluteguy Not to mention the 3 trillion dollars that went missing (as alluded to by Don Rumsfield) thanks to a pre-9/11 audit.

[cmfluteguy]

@dswynne

Your and dawynne need to keep your eyes on the ball!

Your bickering shows that you are biting the bait.

It has been demonstrated clearly now that deficits don't really matter.

In addition to the 1.1 trillion dollar "bipartisan" give away, remember that

recently the fed gave 3.3 trillion dollars to Foreign banks!

The super wealthy want to pressure China to absorb more debt so they can

live tax free in America and put their companies in China for the cheaper labor.

[dswynne]

@weiner66 It's called having principles, something that you and your ilk obviously do not have. In fact, thanks to the Tea Party victory in November, you have enough scared Dems that forced Reid to back down on the omnibus bill, forced Obama to negotiate with the Reps and forced McConnell and the other pro-earmark Reps to hold off on earmarks. As Obama once said, elections have consequences, and both the Dems and the Reps are ignoring their typical inclination for fiscal discipline.

[dswynne]

@weiner66 In other words, the Dems and their supporters have no principles when it comes to spending and taxation, and are willing to spend the country into oblivion while fools such as yourself stand by and do nothing about the problem. Whereas the Tea Party folks want the Reps to cut back on excessive spending, INCLUDING earmarks, but the media news outlets like CBS neither reports this fact nor the fact that the omnibus bill was loaded on earmarks before the November elections. Got it.

[weiner66]

haven't bothered pandering to that group. The repubs also know earmarks are a little blip as well (Mitch McConnell said so aloud), but in the case shown here these two were stupid enough to think their hypocrisy would go over the sharper heads in the press room or in front of a screen...which leaves you out no matter what.

[weiner66]

@dswynne Well, the basic thing dummy, it's about what you believe in. The dems know the earmark issue is peanuts next to entitlements, infrastructure, defense spending, and they know their supporters aren't as stupid as all the peabrainers and redneck simpletons (like you) who can't make heads ot tails of a graph, so they ..