What's really bad about this is how much it went up under Republican leadership between 2002 & 2006. No wonder conservatives turned their backs on them.
Senator McCain said he would take a knife to earmarks and Obama said he would use a scalpel to cut them...I believe both were talking about a fictional scalpels...They run earmarks through congress like sh** through a goose with no regards for nothing or nobody, like children in a candy store...
You're right DTR. Republicans don't hold the high ground in this debate either. And unfortunately a line item veto won't work either, because it would just become a partisan weapon. I can easily imagine President Obama vetoing republican earmarks while leaving those for his supporters.
In a similar vein, check out this study of the stimulus bill by Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus center, George Mason University. http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/Stimulus%20Facts%20Working%20Paper.pdf. Two paragraphs from her study are as follows:
"In the United States there are 177 districts represented by a Republican and 259 represented by a Democrat. On average, Democratic districts received 1.53 times the amount of awards that Republicans were granted. The average number of awards per Republican district is 112, while the average number of awards per Democratic district is 171. Democratic districts also received 2.65 times the amount of stimulus dollars that Republican districts received $122 billion vs. $46 billion). Republican districts also received smaller awards on average. The average dollars awarded per Republican district is $26 million, while the average dollars awarded per Democratic district is about $472 million. In total, Democratic districts received 73 percent of the total stimulus funds awarded and Republican districts received 27 percent of the total amount awarded."
(I apologize if FLPundit has already addressed this study. I didn't look through all of the archives.)
Had not done it and tried to follow the link, but it is dead. That's great info JB. Let me know if you can find the right link. I'd like to follow-up on that.
Here is the author's site: http://mercatus.org/veronique-de-rugy?id=17018 The paper I cited is a working paper she presented last month. There is also an updated version I have not read yet. You can scroll down to find both of them. I think in the updated version she tries to take into account the amount of stimulus money that went to state governments to be distributed to other areas.
Thursday, April 29, 2010 at 4:30PM
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What's really bad about this is how much it went up under Republican leadership between 2002 & 2006. No wonder conservatives turned their backs on them.
Senator McCain said he would take a knife to earmarks and Obama said he would use
a scalpel to cut them...I believe both were talking about a fictional scalpels...They run
earmarks through congress like sh** through a goose with no regards for nothing or
nobody, like children in a candy store...
You're right DTR. Republicans don't hold the high ground in this debate either. And unfortunately a line item veto won't work either, because it would just become a partisan weapon. I can easily imagine President Obama vetoing republican earmarks while leaving those for his supporters.
In a similar vein, check out this study of the stimulus bill by Veronique de Rugy, Mercatus center, George Mason University. http://mercatus.org/sites/default/files/publication/Stimulus%20Facts%20Working%20Paper.pdf. Two paragraphs from her study are as follows:
"In the United States there are 177 districts represented by a Republican and 259
represented by a Democrat. On average, Democratic districts received 1.53 times the
amount of awards that Republicans were granted. The average number of awards per
Republican district is 112, while the average number of awards per Democratic district is
171.
Democratic districts also received 2.65 times the amount of stimulus dollars that
Republican districts received $122 billion vs. $46 billion). Republican districts also
received smaller awards on average. The average dollars awarded per Republican district
is $26 million, while the average dollars awarded per Democratic district is about $472
million. In total, Democratic districts received 73 percent of the total stimulus funds
awarded and Republican districts received 27 percent of the total amount awarded."
(I apologize if FLPundit has already addressed this study. I didn't look through all of the archives.)
Had not done it and tried to follow the link, but it is dead. That's great info JB. Let me know if you can find the right link. I'd like to follow-up on that.
Here is the author's site: http://mercatus.org/veronique-de-rugy?id=17018 The paper I cited is a working paper she presented last month. There is also an updated version I have not read yet. You can scroll down to find both of them. I think in the updated version she tries to take into account the amount of stimulus money that went to state governments to be distributed to other areas.