Obama bans bill pork, warns of deficits

LOL... This is a 1 trillion dollar earmark.

Interesting. The entire recovery package is a U.S. government welfare program earmark. When the $775 billion is gone and the stock market doesn't recognize it what then?

If Obama manages to restrain these greedy swine from attaching earmarks to a $1 trillion, then I will concede that he has superior leadership skills. Frankly, Congress can't even pass a $50 billion stopgap bill without porking it up. I hate to think how much pork this so-called stimulus boondoggle's going to have. Oh, well, the Romans got their bread and circuses from their emperors on their road to ruin. We've got liberal presidents and a socialist Congress to give Americans this 21st Century equivalent of bread and circuses. Unfortunately, the barbarians didn't give Rome a break to work out its contradictions, degeneracy, and waste. Maybe, our equivalent to barbarian attackers on America will be more considerate to just hold off while America spends itself headlong into bankruptcy.

This bill is the biggest and boldest swindle of the United States taxpayers that has ever occurred! If the American taxpayers let him and the Democrat/Marxists get away this, they deserve the consequences.

Wasn't he just telling us a few months ago that earmarks really weren't that important in the grand scheme of things? He's trying to hoodwink the American people anyways. It's being reported that he has asked Ray LaHood to be his Transportation Secretary. He's a moderate Republican known in Congress as the king of earmarks. Obama is something else.

BO is ready to launch America down the path to a horrendous, catastrophic, economic disaster. He is fanatically convinced he can spend the country into solvency with money this country does not have. This is absolute, unadulterated, shear madness! He is turning out to be a one-man national wrecking ball! He is taking this country down the track to an economic train wreck the likes of which the people of the United States have never seen! The mindlessness of this Democrat/Marxist scheme is staggering! Spending money that does not exist in order to cure a crippled economic situation is like drinking salt water to quench your thirst; neither accomplishes its purpose; and eventually both actions will kill you.

Did he ban union payoffs? Didn't think so.

We wel-come the policies of B.Obama,the U.S. Economy will have to revive as early as possible,because it is the engine of growth for the rest of the world economies,which will restore the confidence level also.

Obama banning pork and earmarks? How can he read lines like this with a straight face?

Saying he will ban earmarks on a bill that is just one big earmark? What a joke. It's normal Democrat abuse of words. Depends on what the meaning of "earmark" is.

of course the messiah is lying but (buy) the time anybody is allowed to look where the money went it will be buried so deep in so many top secret venues that nobody will ever be able to bring the appropriate felony charges! if you don't believe this is so, just look at how the game of political three card monty is protecting barney frank from being arrested for gross fraud! (anybody remember the fanney mae/freddie mac hustle?)

Don’t believe it! Democrats will never be able to forego earmarks. They’ll just call them another name. Distortion and lying are the bread and butter of elected officials. How can Obama so glibly forecast deficits in the trillions with no apparent concern for the burden - the impossible burden - those deficits will place on our children, grandchildren and their children! This kind of governing is borderline criminal and needs a revolution by the taxpayers refusing to pay! He probably thinks he’s still campaigning and living in that land of Oz where what he says can be made to happen. He’s now and always will be full of ‘it’...!

"Bans pork". Thanks for the laugh.

How does spending $1 trillion of borrowed money set a new standard of accountability? Sounds like a new standard of irresponsibility and short-sightedness to me. The national debt in approaching $11 trillion.....about $35,000 for every American. Our federal government is a bigger threat to our peace, prosperity and freedom than any terrorist organization.

Don't worry, you will not be on a diet. In fact your intake of stolen money from the taxpayer will increase. What was pork yesterday will be filet mignon tomorrow. Instead of sliding in pork in the middle of the night with a wink wink, it will be loudly proclaimed in the light of day. The difference is it will be renamed infrastructure improvement essential to our economic recovery and the foundation of the stimulus bill. The crooks who tax without representation have simply renamed their thievery to make you think it's for you, while they bring home the bacon for lobbyists, buy votes and pay back unions. The game remains the same, the terminology has changed to protect the guilty. The flim flam is on.