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| The Mother of all Earmarks: $48Billion, plus options for more! |
| 2010-12-16 |
| This must have disappeared down the article hole. I'm re-posting it. Proposed by a gentleman named Lamar Mickens, president of the not-for-profit Quality Day Campus, the $48 billion earmark would funnel money into the inner cities to give money to the poor and thereby produce a much larger consumer class to buy the goods and services produced in this country. Why didn't someone think of this before? "The Epicenter is a proposed estimated $48 billion (Phase One) mass scale urban reclamation project for combating, reducing, reversing and/or eliminating poverty within under served communities by utilizing mass scale economic redevelopment to bring about stability and self reliance. And to buy lots of votes for whomever might be willing to pros+itute themselves by supporting this crap. Any politician with half a brain will know what this is all about and support it. Politicians wit more of a brain will truly be upset. |
| Posted by:gorb |
| #3 Why didn't someone think of this before? I nearly pissed myself on that one. |
| Posted by: Besoeker 2010-12-16 11:47 |
| #2 The Russians tried this once and called the experiment the Soviet Union. It didn't work, as I recall. |
| Posted by: DarthVader 2010-12-16 10:39 |
| #1 With respect to his POS spending bill, the line on the headlines of AoS says it best: There is no curse in Elvish, Entish, or the tongues of Men for this treachery. |
| Posted by: Alaska Paul 2010-12-16 10:38 |