re economic stimulus or pork in article apr isc br isc br com steveh thor isc br com steve hendricks writes in fact no one has such a list the clinton package as presently proposed includes a variety of recommended spending areas and dollar amounts it does not include a line by line list of every project that would be funded congress may include such line items in the bill when it passes likewise it may prohibit spending for specific projects as amendments to the bill such amendments positive and negative are often pointed to by those who propose a line item veto or enhanced recision power for the president some of the billion package is in the form of block grants to states and localities this is why i asked to be enlightened you are making claims about what is or is not part of this program but if the block grants go to states and cities the mayors list is very relivent i d suggest contacting your local officials reading a newspaper with good coverage of congress washington post ny times or if you re serious about paying attention to these issues get copies of congressional quarterly at your library or have your representative put you on the mailing list for the congressional record it s free but be prepared to invest more time in the effort than it takes to watch the evening news or read your local paper okay scarasm does deserve sacrasm but i already contact my local officals my congress rep senators watch evening news news programs and c span in addition to the cherry picking that went on with the mayors wish list congressional republicans selected wish list projects from a variety of federal agencies based apparently upon how silly the names of the projects sounded i m not even sure if they bothered to correlate a potential expenditure of an agency in clinton s bill with a potential project from the same agency but it is clear that the effort was to make clinton s potential expenditures appear to be linked to projects with absurd names not to be taken seriously any more than equivalent tactics by democrats would have been in the reagan bush era the fact is that primetime tm of abc has had numberous reposts on such waste programs that already exist again if we are truely intrested in eliminating the debt we must remove the deficit and do away with all pork i realize that it is tempting to believe that government is in the hands of clowns who are dishonest at best but such simplistic analysis does little to advance the cause of public education there have been several books written on gov waste network news programs from time to time devote segments to this and there have been bills proposed that significantly reduces expenditures without touching external programs by changing the way congress does business and make it more efficent true blame is easy but also is spending someone else s money clinton ran on a platform that he would not raise taxes on the middle class to pay for these his programs he has proposed a program that is not specific that counts on tax hikes to pay for ken m edwards bell northern research research triangle park nc email cnc a bnr ca ham n zbb all opinions are my own and do not necessarily reflect the views of my employer or co workers family friends congress or president you d better call my dad my mom s pretty busy chelsea clinton
