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Government Corruption
Taxpayers feel the pain of politicians' wasteful and absurd $1.7 trillion spending plan
2022-12-23
[NYPOST] Congress will soon vote on the 4,155-page omnibus bill that was crafted in a back room by half a dozen congressional leaders. No amendments will be permitted on the House or Senate floors and members of Congress will get no time to read the bill before rubber-stamping $1.7 trillion-plus in new spending.

Here are a few gems from this "No Boondoggle Left Behind" blunderbuss:
  • “Monuments to Me” in the bill commemorate politicians’ generosity with other people’s money — including the “Speaker Nancy San Fran Nan Pelosi
    Retiring Congresswoman-for-Life from the San Francisco Bay Area, born into a family of professional politicians. On-again-off-again Speaker of the House. It's not her fault when they lose, but it's her accomplishment when they win. Noted for her heavily botoxed grimace and occasional senior... uhhh... moments...
     Federal Building” in San Francisco and the “Nancy Pelosi Fellowship Program” for the State Department. Sen. Patrick Leahy (D-Vt.) finagled his name onto the Patrick Leahy Lake Champlain Basin Program. Sen. Richard Shelby (R-Ala.) also got his name on an FBI training facility even though “almost everything in Alabama is already named after him,” according to Scott Parkinson of the Club for Growth.

  • $3.6 million for the Michelle Obama Trail in DeKalb, Ga. Perhaps the four-mile trail will be a consolation prize for Michelle after her signature “Let’s Move” campaign dismally failed to end childhood obesity.
    The little brats still won't eat their kale.
  • The omnibus bill authorizes a chauffeur for the Commissioner of Internal Revenue. But there is no relief for taxpayers who get run over by IRS agents racing to meet quotas for seizing citizens’ paychecks and bank accounts.

  • The bill includes an earmark of $2 million for the office of New York City Mayor Eric Adams “for improving coordination between social agencies to support children and families.” Is a federal bribe necessary for local government agencies to exchange emails?

  • $200 billion is budgeted for the Gender Equity and Equality Action Fund, part of President Biden’s glorious worldwide crusade for the rights of females. Will that program include sending condolence cards to the women of Afghanistan?
    While they can read?
    Or maybe all the money will be fizzled for zany projects like “Women’s Economic Empowerment through Gender Sensitive Value Chain ­Interventions” in Albania.

  • The bill grants Food and Drug Administration agents sweeping new power over cosmetics. How long until the FDA causes shortages of lipstick and mascara like it did with infant formula?

  • The bill provides massive subsidies to encourage the continuing tidal wave of illegal immigration while banning spending any funds “to construct border fencing in certain areas,” according to the Heritage Foundation. While scoffing at safeguarding the US border, Congress is sending $410 million for “enhanced border security” to Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman, according to Rep. Dan Bishop (R-NC).

  • $7.5 million is authorized for “research targeted toward developing a better understanding of the domestic radicalization phenomenon, and advancing evidence-based strategies for effective intervention and prevention.” The feds will “research radicalization” in lieu of ceasing to rile up people by trampling the Constitution.
    Depends on which people you're talking about.
  • Congress is dolloping out $1.5 million for the COVID-19 American History Project. That program is more likely to have rows of Anthony Fauci Bobbleheads than to include the sordid details of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention and the National Institutes of Health browbeating Twitter to censor critics who exposed the deceits of federal policymakers. To fill the fearmongering void caused by Fauci’s retirement, the omnibus bill creates a new White House pandemic czar.
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Nancy Pelosi: 2022-12-16 Chairman of Jan 6 Select (Witch Hunt) Committee Withdraws Subpeona Against Verizon For Mike Lindell's Phone Records
Nancy Pelosi: 2022-12-15 ‘Am I A B****?': Pelosi Asks Explicit Question After Phone Call With Mike Pence
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Patrick Leahy: 2022-10-14 82-Year-Old Democrat Senator Patrick Leahy Hospitalized
Patrick Leahy: 2022-06-30 Vermont Sen. Leahy will undergo surgery after he breaks hip during fall
Patrick Leahy: 2021-12-08 Controversial Biden Customs and Border Protections nominee confirmed
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Richard Shelby: 2022-02-27 GOP Sen. Jim Inhofe announces retirement, sets stage for special election
Richard Shelby: 2022-01-19 'Black Hawk Down' pilot Mike Durant aims for Alabama Senate seat, lauds American principles over liberal media
Richard Shelby: 2021-06-06 Senate senility
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Michelle Obama: 2022-12-18 ‘...newly plaited braids’ - Big Mike is laying the foundation for 2024-Her hair Style is the Proof
Michelle Obama: 2022-09-01 Joe and Jill Biden invite Barack and Michelle Obama to the White House next week so they can finally see their official portraits after Trump wouldn't host them
Michelle Obama: 2022-08-05 TV Series Based On Michelle Obama Gets Cancelled After Just One Season
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Eric Adams: 2022-12-12 Ex-Gov. David Paterson backs Adams' plan to get mentally ill off streets
Eric Adams: 2022-12-02 'It's a hot mess': NYPD was 'blindsided' by NYC Mayor Eric Adams' decision to involuntarily commit mentally ill homeless people and claims City Hall 'jumped the gun'
Eric Adams: 2022-11-03 NYPD Commissioner Sewell calls on Hochul to roll back bail reform as Adams bites tongue
Related:
President Biden: 2022-12-19 Ukrainian Perspective: Invasion of Ukraine: December 18th, 2022
President Biden: 2022-12-15 Will Puerto Rico be the next U.S. state? Independence bill goes to US House vote today - as Dem representatives 'look forward to making history'
President Biden: 2022-12-16 Biden roasted for sending South Africa $8 billion to shut down coal plants: ‘Weapon grade lunacy'
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Dan Bishop: 2022-11-20 Migrants Brave Cold by Hundreds to Enter Texas Border Town
Dan Bishop: 2022-10-11 State Department will consider 'gender dysphoria and gender transition care' for workers overseas
Dan Bishop: 2022-08-25 Republicans: Biden Must Disclose How Much Taxpayers Are Paying for NGOs to Fly Illegal Aliens into U.S.
Related:
Anthony Fauci: 2022-12-13 Dr. Huff exposes Fauci on the lab leak
Anthony Fauci: 2022-12-13 Ex-CIA Chief's Attempt To Defend ‘National Hero' Fauci Backfires In A Hurry
Anthony Fauci: 2022-12-12 Rand Paul demands Dr. Fauci must be investigated under oath
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Centers for Disease Control: 2022-12-08 America First Legal (AFL) Bombshell About 'Secret' Twitter-Gov't 'Portal' Ought to Raise Elon's Eyebrows
Centers for Disease Control: 2022-12-06 US plans end to monkeypox public health emergency in January
Centers for Disease Control: 2022-11-29 Fauci Couldn't Name Any Studies Showing Masks Work Against COVID
Related:
National Institutes of Health: 2022-12-21 Watchdogs Press Congress to Axe Taxpayer Funding for Chinese Lab at Center of COVID Pandemic
National Institutes of Health: 2022-12-04 Whistleblower US scientist who worked with Wuhan lab claims COVID WAS genetically engineered and leaked from the site - and says 'the US government is to blame' because it funded the research
National Institutes of Health: 2022-10-31 DHS LEAKS PROVE Government Conspiracy With Twitter, Big Tech, To Censor And Subvert Elections
Posted by:Fred

#3  I think I will schedule a proctological exam to check to see if I have lost some WWI ordnance or if it is just the US government is happy to see me.
Posted by: Super Hose   2022-12-23 16:45  

#2  Unbelievable.

I am glad that I won't be around that much longer. But I am sorry for my children and am becoming more and more happy that I don't have grandchildren.
Posted by: Tom   2022-12-23 10:34  

#1  LSD's understand they need to spend it now.
Because once the house (R)'s get control, the (LSD's) y will have to share it with the (R)'s who will want to spend it on their own agenda also.

BTW: If all of the $32T+/- in Congressional deficit spending was instead given to the 132M+/- "living" voters. The voters would each pocket around $242,424.00.

If just the $4.7T +/- in deficit spending done since 2020 was given to US Voters instead, it would put around $35,606.00 in each voters pocket.

I sure could use a Congressional budget earmark or 2.
Posted by: NN2N1   2022-12-23 08:08  

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