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We all knew the sharks would be out trying to get their pet projects into the Economic Stimulus Bill...

The latest is a $75M Stop Smoking add...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/ ... index.html

mmmmm Pork....


Can anything in a Stimulus bill truly be call "Pork"?

dbackjon wrote:mmmmm Pork....


Can anything in a Stimulus bill truly be call "Pork"?

Good point...

I would draw the line on stuff like this...it has nothing to do with getting the economy out of it's current rut...

ALL of it is pork.

Col Hogan wrote:We all knew the sharks would be out trying to get their pet projects into the Economic Stimulus Bill...

The latest is a $75M Stop Smoking add...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/ ... index.html

Aw geez....c'mon M. le Colonel, 75 million is peanuts. Sheeit, that's not even Merril-Lynch bonus-pool money.

houndawg wrote:

Col Hogan wrote:We all knew the sharks would be out trying to get their pet projects into the Economic Stimulus Bill...

The latest is a $75M Stop Smoking add...

http://www.cnn.com/2009/POLITICS/01/29/ ... index.html

Aw geez....c'mon M. le Colonel, 75 million is peanuts. Sheeit, that's not even Merril-Lynch bonus-pool money.

But $75m here, and $75m there...and it adds up...that's partially how we got into this mess...

Col Hogan wrote:

houndawg wrote:
Aw geez....c'mon M. le Colonel, 75 million is peanuts. Sheeit, that's not even Merril-Lynch bonus-pool money.

But $75m here, and $75m there...and it adds up...that's partially how we got into this mess...

Who was it that said "A billion here, a billion there....pretty soon we're talking about REAL money!!!"