Omnibus Spending Atrocity

[Tsing Tao]

Yeah, disgusting. Forget about the 4000 some odd pages being forced on with no time to review. Some of the things being put into the bill:

• Expressly prohibits Border Patrol funding from being used to improve border security...

• While allocating $410 million towards border security for Jordan, Lebanon, Egypt, Tunisia and Oman

• A "Ukrainian Independence Park" in Washington DC

• $335 million to prepare for an influenza pandemic, including the use of surveillance tools.

• $65 million to help 'Pacific salmon' populations (and those in charge of handling the money, we assume)

• $3 million for 'bee-friendly highways' and another $5 million for the salmon

• $575 million for "family planning" in areas where population growth "threatens biodiversity."

• $65 million in two programs for Senator Leahy and a federal building named for Nancy Pelosi

• $3.6 million for the "Michelle Obama Trail"

• $477k for "antiracist" training, $3 million for a LGBTQ+ museum in NYC, $1.2 million in "services for DACA recipients"

• $524.4 million for the NIH to fight "structural racism"

• $7.5 million to better understand "domestic radicalization" and $1 million for gun violence research

• Gender programs in Pakistan and $200 million for Gender Equity

• A 15% increase in the vaccine injury fund

• $11.33 billion for the FBI, $1.75 billion for the ATF and $2.63 billion for US attorneys (all significant increases over the previous year)

• $70 million for minority business development, an increase of $15 million from Fy22

I'm sure the responses will all be things about "but Trump"...but who cares. Bad spending is bad spending and this Congress takes the cake.

 

[Cuddles]

I hear Mitch gutted IRS funding and voted with gusto as deplorables cheered in the background yelling big gov talking points and blaming immigrants for their shitty roads and hospitals?

 

[UsualName]

What’s wrong with bee friendly highways?

 

[Tsing Tao]

What’s wrong with bee friendly highways?

I should note that I am much more in favor of bee friendly highways than just about everything else in the bill!

 

[Tsing Tao]

I hear Mitch gutted IRS funding and voted with gusto as deplorables cheered in the background yelling big gov talking points and blaming immigrants for their shitty roads and hospitals?

I don't know what the hell you're on about, but Mitch is a giant part of the problem, not the solution. See, that's how it should work. I don't care what team you play for if you do a bad job.

 

[Tony Stark]

Not ideal but better than trillions in tax cuts for the rich imo.

 

[El OchoCinco]

Same shit...different toilet over past 22 years....

Easy to spend when you can just print more money.


I would love to know who the author of the Bee Friendly Highway provision is...thats my hero.

 

[mervyn]

I have no issues with money spent at home. However, the earmark for foreign countries (allies or adversaries), leave much room for backroom dealings.

 

[Tsing Tao]

Not ideal but better than trillions in tax cuts for the rich imo.

Why do we have to choose between or accept either?

 

[Tony Stark]

Why do we have to choose between or accept either?

Well Im not voting for Biden or Trump in 2024 so I'm doing my part.

I used to care about the budget but reached the point of why give a shit as its clearly not going to change.Just hope the reckoning isn't during my lifetime.