Why has Dear Leader OH-BLAH-BLAH Betrayed Our Trust, Yet Again? Let me correct myself; he lied again!?

Question by liberal welfare beggar: Why has Dear Leader OH-BLAH-BLAH Betrayed Our Trust, So far Again? Let me right myself; he lied again!?
Why did OH-BLAH-BLAH sign a bill loaded with pork when he practically swore that he would not tolerate congress sending him bills loaded with it?

Pay close attention! Another $ 20 million in pay-off for Louisiana! Landrieu is getting her pound of flesh!

Just another brick in the wall, comrade!

Tracking Your Taxes: Defense Bill Pays for Prostate Screenings, Sprinkler System

By William La Jeunesse and Laura Prabucki

– FOXNews.com

Just last week, Obama broke a promise to veto pork-barrel bills as he signed into law the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill — a $ 636 billion behemoth loaded with $ 4.2 billion dollars of pork.
President Obama pledged in Dignified to cut all pork barrel projects from defense spending, threatening to veto any swollen bills that came across his desk — a pledge shattered by nearly 2,000 pet projects that have made their way into the defense budget.

“If a project doesn’t support our troops, we will not fund it,” he said to a meeting of the Veterans of Foreign Wars in Phoenix. “If a system doesn’t perform, we will terminate it. And if Congress sends me a defense bill loaded with that kind of pork, I will veto it. ”

Just last week, Obama broke his promise as he signed into law the 2010 Defense Appropriations Bill — a $ 636 billion behemoth loaded with $ 4.2 billion of pork.

“We should be concerned that we’re getting ripped off,” said Ryan Alexander, president of the watchdog group Taxpayers for Common Sense.

“The earmarking administer is the beginning of figuring out whether or not we’re getting ripped off. Unquestionably dollars are being aimed at, not based on the preeminent choice making administer.”

In all, Congress added in 1,720 pet projects, including:

∙$ 5 million for a visitors center in San Francisco
∙$ 23 million for indigent shape care in Hawaii
∙$ 18 million for the Edward Kennedy Policy Institute in Massachusetts
∙$ 1.6 million to computerize hospital minutes in Oakland
∙$ 47 million for anti-drug training centers around the country
∙$ 20 million for the World War II Museum in Louisiana
∙$ 3.9 million grant to develop an energy-efficient solar film for buildings
∙$ 800,000 for minority prostate cancer investigate
∙$ 3.6 million for marijuana obliteration in Kentucky
∙$ 2.4 million for handicap access and a sprinkler system at a community club in New York

Lawmakers also added $ 5 billion for two destroyers, 10 C-17 cargo planes and to develop a jet engine the Pentagon neither wants nor needs. Critics call it classic pork — projects that may save jobs, but not money.

“There is a reason they are added to the Defense appropriations bill, because everyone in Congress knows this is a must-pass piece of legislation”, said Todd Harrison, a budget studies fellow at the Center for Strategic and Budgetary Assessments.

Despite the billions in pork, the White Household says it’s making progress. The earmarking total is 14 percent lower than it was on last year’s defense bill, and the Obama administration says federal agencies found more than $ 19 billion in narrow savings for 2010. The president has also succeeded in killing funding for the pricy F-22 Joint Strike Fighter and a new presidential helicopter.

Members of Congress are also defending their earmarks. Senator John Kerry, D-Mass., who added the Ted Kennedy Institute to the defense budget, says it is a tribute to the late Senator’s leadership on military technology and safety for our troops.

Senator Mary Landrieu, D-La., says she was “proud” to secure $ 20 million for a new wing of the Inhabitant World War II museum in her home state.

But a study by the Center of Defense Information says earmarks like those in this bill — including those for the solar film, prostate cancer investigate, and the New York sprinkler system — mean less money for pilot training, supplies, repairs and ammunition.

Harrison is especially disappointed Congress cut $ 300 million from a successful counterinsurgency program used by Army field commanders.

“That money is used by commanders on impose a curfew in Iraq and Afghanistan to fund small projects that aid win over the local population,” he said.
I know that you liberals are watching this! Go ahead and answer my question! Oh, that’s aptly, you only do personal attacks when confronted with facts.

Preeminent answer:

Answer by Barefoot Polecat Jones
I guess he lied, but in Washington, they reckon that is a excellent thing, so you can know where he is coming from.

Know better? House your own answer in the comments!

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