Red States/Blue StatesYes the electoral map is a big one! The blue states increased for support of Obama in the last election. However the Blue States also increased in spending, specifically EARMARKS!
The best part is, when you compare the red and blue states to the 9,000 earmarks, oh my just take a look and you decide who is spending all the money in earmarks. And Obama promised in his campaign that earmarks would be reduced.
Compare the map above to the google map which places the 9,000 earmarks. (It will take a while do download the map ...as there are 9,000 earmarks on it!)
http://maps.google.com/maps?f=q&hl=en&geocode=&q=http://spreadsheets.google.com/pub%3Fkey%3DpqxnHT66fIAqY0H6YdMyJJg%26output%3Dtxt%26gid%3D0%26range%3Dkml_output%26time1%3D3987055
Some of the earmarks are republican state earmarks. Please write your governors and senators if you are in a republican state marked with earmarks. With our current economy, NOW is not the time to ask for earmarks!
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The biggest "earmarks" went to war profiteer Dick Cheney and friends:
When history looks back at the last eight years, it will not be kind to George Bush and Dick Cheney.
We already know a lot - war profiteering and no-bid contracts, torture and secret prisons, and of course the lies that got us into this war in the first place. They turned the Justice Department, the nation's top law enforcement authority, into a political tool. They wrote secret legal memos in an attempt to override the Constitution. The list goes on and on. And you keep trying to erect straw men to avoid the real issues of corruption in the bush administration.
SEP...dude...call a spade ..a spade..pork pork pork spending... the dems rock pork spending!
If Spending on saving jobs, repairing and building infrastructure, cutting taxes, saving teaching, fire and police jobs and improving health care for millions of under or non-insured Americans, Getting the banks lending again, restoring confidence in our capitalist structures, is PORK... YES! I'll TAKE IT!
To be clear, Spending trillions in Iraq nation-build there is not pork, but spending on America's betterment is pork...? You righties have perverse priorities.
Senators have said earmarks will stay. Thats the only wedge the small states have. And Obama lied he'll approve the earmarks. It may be Obamas Abu Grav.
Better talk to your republican pals that stuffed the bill with earmarks...
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