Right now, with Katrina's carnage and the impending carnage of Rita, right now would be a good time for Congress to get into action and take back all that pork they just doled out in the transportation bill. Step up, Dennis Hastert. Step up, Ray LaHood, let's get that money back to Washington so it can be used where it's needed.
And seriously, Senator Stevens from Alaska, you have the most glaring piece of pork in the bill, it's time for you to show you're a man. That $200 million that you got for one bridge from the mainland to an uninhabited island (the purpose of which, I'm sure, is to help your rich friends snap up some land and build a ridiculously lavish mansion or two or twenty on said island to the benefit of no one)? Give it back. Now. Every damn dime of it.
If our good congressmen and women don't want to take a chance at ticking off selfish constituents, then there is another option: Tell the (p)resident that maybe it's time to repeal his ridiculously one-sided and ill-advised tax cuts. There you go. Want to keep your trail? Want to keep your bridge? California, Arnie, hey, you want to keep that $1 billion-plus worth of pork? Repeal the tax cut and you can keep your pork. Deal?
Good. Get it done. One or the other.
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