President Obama personally responsible for an earmark setting aside $7.7 million dollars for a Vocational Education program.
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What, Me Earmark?
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"Look. The point is to get Government Spending up to as near 100% of GDP as possible. The free market has failed. The only people we can trust with The Economy is government."
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"I’m proud that we passed the recovery plan free of earmarks"--President Barack Obama, February 24, 2009.
Of course that was a lie. Earmarks in the Stimulus Bill included:
$4.19 BILLION for ACORN$1.2 billion for "youth activities" (for "youth" up to 24 years old) $1 BILLION for 500 salmon in California$1 BILLION for the Community Oriented Policing Services program $60 million for a mob museum in Las Vegas
$650 million for digital TV converter box coupons
$400 million for STD Prevention$150 million for honeybee insurance
$40 million for "national treasures"
$25 million for ATV trails
$20 million for fish barriers$10 million for urban canals
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Despite Obama's campaign pledge to refrain from earmarking, he was caught red handed in the Omnibus Spending Bill. Not that any of the morons who voted for him know what that means or care.
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