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Economic recovery package before Congress"would provide massive fiscal stimulus."
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<blockquote data-quote="moreluck" data-source="post: 477955" data-attributes="member: 1246"><p><em><strong>Subject:</strong></em> Earmarks vs. Pork</p><p> </p><p> </p><p><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><span style="font-size: 15px">“I am confident that by the time we have the final package on the floor that we are going to see substantial support, and people are going to see this is a serious effort. It has no earmarks. We are going to be trimming out things that are not relevant to putting people back to work right now,” Obama said.</span></span></p><p> </p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"><strong><span style="font-size: 18px"><span style="color: #ff0000"><u>The problem with political language is that it is designed to obscure, not enlighten. In this case, “no earmarks” does not equal “no pork.”</u></span></span></strong></span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'">I blame the overall dumbing down of the American people. In order to try to pierce the thick of rational ignorance which surrounds most Americans, rational discussion is compressed into a brief code that fits into a ten-second sound-bite. Hence, “earmark” and “pork” become synonymous. Now, while it may be true that most earmarks are, indeed, pork, it is not true that all pork is also an earmark of some sort. This pig-meat bailout is a perfect example. </span></span></p><p><span style="font-size: 15px"><span style="font-family: 'Arial'"></span></span></p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="moreluck, post: 477955, member: 1246"] [I][B]Subject:[/B][/I] Earmarks vs. Pork [FONT=Arial][SIZE=4]“I am confident that by the time we have the final package on the floor that we are going to see substantial support, and people are going to see this is a serious effort. It has no earmarks. We are going to be trimming out things that are not relevant to putting people back to work right now,” Obama said.[/SIZE][/FONT] [SIZE=4][FONT=Arial][B][SIZE=5][COLOR=#ff0000][U]The problem with political language is that it is designed to obscure, not enlighten. In this case, “no earmarks” does not equal “no pork.”[/U][/COLOR][/SIZE][/B][/FONT] [FONT=Arial]I blame the overall dumbing down of the American people. In order to try to pierce the thick of rational ignorance which surrounds most Americans, rational discussion is compressed into a brief code that fits into a ten-second sound-bite. Hence, “earmark” and “pork” become synonymous. Now, while it may be true that most earmarks are, indeed, pork, it is not true that all pork is also an earmark of some sort. This pig-meat bailout is a perfect example. [/FONT][/SIZE] [/QUOTE]
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