House Democrats Propose $410B Spending Bill

After spending $787 Billion on pork laden stimulus bill, the Democrats want to spend $410 Billion on a pork laden spending bill. The Democrats are out of control and need to be stopped, but who can stop them?

House Democrats unveiled a $410 billion spending bill on Monday to keep the government running through the end of the fiscal year, setting up the second political struggle over federal funds in less than a month with Republicans.

The measure includes thousands of earmarks, the pet projects favored by lawmakers but often criticized by the public in opinion polls. There was no official total of the bill's earmarks, which accounted for at least $3.8 billion.

The legislation, which includes an increase of roughly 8 percent over spending in the last fiscal year, is expected to clear the House later in the week.

What we need is cuts in Government not more spending. With the Democrats throwing money at every pet project they have ever wanted, this country will fall. After all of this they still plan on Universal Healthcare, which will destroy our healthcare as we know it and raise taxes to an astonishing level.

Obama has a plan though. Tax the Rich. What people forget is the Rich are the people who produce jobs. If you tax the Rich 5 percent more, then they will cut expenses by 5 percent. What expenses normally get cut in a company? Payroll.

Apart from spending, the legislation provides Democrats in Congress and Obama an opportunity to reverse Bush-era policy on selected issues.

It loosens restrictions on travel to Cuba, as well as the sale of food and medicine to the communist island-nation.

In another change, the legislation bans Mexican-licensed trucks from operating outside commercial zones along the border with the United States. The Teamsters Union, which supported Obama's election last year, hailed the move.

The legislation covers programs for numerous Cabinet-level and other agencies, and takes the place of regular annual spending bills that did not pass last year as a result of a deadlock between the Bush administration and the Democratic-controlled Congress.

Congressional expenses are included. The bill provides $500,000 for what is described as a Senate "pilot program" that will defray the cost of mass mail postcards to households notifying them of a nearby town meeting to be attended by any senator.

What does Cuba and trucks from Mexico have to do with a spending bill? Its pork and pandering to special interest groups. That's what the Democrats do best, buy votes.