House approves $630B spending bill

[Bindare_Dundat]

The Pentagon will receive a record $488B budget; automakers get $25B in loans; offshore drilling ban lifted.

http://money.cnn.com/2008/09/24/news/economy/house_bill.ap/index.htm?postversion=2008092416

[Hereford]

You gotta be fuuckig kidding...

'Georgia would receive $365 million in economic help to recover from the recent conflict with Russia.'

What the hell is going on here? Is this serious?

'aid grants and address problems in the Women, Infants and Children program, which delivers healthy foods to the poor'

More welfare handouts to the bottom feeders and illegals

'The year-end budget measure also would lift a quarter-century ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.'

Fantastic! Are there going to be any measures in place to see that the benefits go to the American consumers, and not to further pad the oil industrys 'record-setting-every-single-quarter' profits?

and finally....

'Passage also was greased by 2,322 pet projects totaling $6.6 billion.'

Even now, there has to be pork projects.

Amazing.

[Bindare_Dundat]

You gotta be fuuckig kidding...

'Georgia would receive $365 million in economic help to recover from the recent conflict with Russia.'

What the hell is going on here? Is this serious?

'aid grants and address problems in the Women, Infants and Children program, which delivers healthy foods to the poor'

More welfare handouts to the bottom feeders and illegals

'The year-end budget measure also would lift a quarter-century ban on oil drilling off the Atlantic and Pacific coasts.'

Fantastic! Are there going to be any measures in place to see that the benefits go to the American consumers, and not to further pad the oil industrys 'record-setting-every-single-quarter' profits?

and finally....

'Passage also was greased by 2,322 pet projects totaling $6.6 billion.'

Even now, there has to be pork projects.

Amazing.

It's a disaster but nothing new these days.

[Hereford]

I seriously can't believe what is going on these days.

There is no one at all really in charge.

Both Dems and Repubs are just in it for the public trough fundage. No-one will say 'no' to anything, no matter how retarded or unnecessary it is.

Seriously... we are paying for Georgia now too?