An important petition re: get rid of the pork to pay for katrina

[wellstone dem]

http://www.thepetitionsite.com/takeaction/109311432?ltl=1128302558


It all started with the sensible citizens of Bozeman, Montana, who petitioned to return $4 million in federal dollars they received for a new parking garage. Arguing that the Hurricane Katrina’s survivors need the money far more than Bozeman needs a new garage, they made the gesture to help taxpayers foot the staggering $62 billion bill in promised hurricane relief spending along the Gulf Coast. In doing so, Montana’s plucky citizens have unleashed a powerful citizens’ campaign.

Alaskans started bombarding their local newspapers with letters decrying the $320 million earmarked to build the state’s infamous “Bridge to Nowhere”, an egregious pork-barrel project championed by Senator Don Young (R-AK), that would serve an island of just 50 residents.

Taking back the mountains of pork from the bloated $286 billion federal highway bill that recently passed in Congress is an idea now gaining momentum on both ends of the political spectrum, having been endorsed recently in both The New York Times and Wall Street Journal.

But with powerful Republican legislators such as House Speaker Tom DeLay still in complete denial about the squandered taxpayer dollars - he claimed recently that “there is simply no fat left to cut in the federal budget” - we need to speak out now against this staggering waste!

In an era of bloated budget deficits and pressing needs here at home, it’s time to tell Congress: take back the pork!

[opihimoimoi]

1. The Pork is there in many forms..all we gatta do is look with a fair eye.

[wellstone dem]

2. a kick before I turn in.

[jwirr]

3. Done and I reminded them that the tax cuts are pork.

[annabanana]

4. the bloated military is the richest deposit of pork

in the world. How's about sending some of THAT to our Gulf instead of the other one?

And maybe roll back some of that obscene give-away, trickle-down (piss upon) shovel-the-cash-out-the door "tax cut" for the billionaires?

Pork in great steaming, squeeling mountains....

Enough to re-house all the new homeless with enough left over for a National Health Plan and College for everyone.

[wellstone dem]

5. A kick

for the morning crew