Spending Freeze?

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Edited Date/Time 1/22/2012 11:06am
Top House Republican calls for spending freeze
2 hours ago

WASHINGTON (AP) — The top Republican in the House is seizing on the latest spike in unemployment to call for a freeze on government spending and to urge President Barack Obama to veto a $410 billion spending bill.

Rep. John Boehner, R-Ohio, said the jump in unemployment to 8.1 percent and the loss of 651,000 jobs in February is a sign of a worsening recession that demands better solutions from both parties.

Boehner criticized the spending bill as chocked full of wasteful, pork-barrel projects. The Senate postponed a vote on the bill until Monday amid the criticism.

Boehner said he hoped Obama would veto the bill. He urged the president to work with House Republicans to impose a spending freeze until the end of this fiscal year.

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09450f 3/6/2009 9:56am
3/6/2009 9:56am
no way..its spend ,spend,spend..theres no tommorow
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tuz371 3/6/2009 10:33am
3/6/2009 10:33am
Wow, after checking over the stimulus bill that was just passed (www.stimuluswatch.org) it looks like NONE of the money went to Boehner's 8th District in SW Ohio.

Maybe he's a little pissed that the state with the 5th most stimulus projects (847) had none in District 8? Hopefully that is not the case and he really is for cutting spending.
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txmxer 3/6/2009 10:45am
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tuz371 wrote:
Wow, after checking over the stimulus bill that was just passed (www.stimuluswatch.org) it looks like NONE of the money went to Boehner's 8th District in SW...
Wow, after checking over the stimulus bill that was just passed (www.stimuluswatch.org) it looks like NONE of the money went to Boehner's 8th District in SW Ohio.

Maybe he's a little pissed that the state with the 5th most stimulus projects (847) had none in District 8? Hopefully that is not the case and he really is for cutting spending.
good eye...but no politician would do that would they....
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SteveS 3/6/2009 11:59am
3/6/2009 11:59am
tuz371 wrote:
Wow, after checking over the stimulus bill that was just passed (www.stimuluswatch.org) it looks like NONE of the money went to Boehner's 8th District in SW...
Wow, after checking over the stimulus bill that was just passed (www.stimuluswatch.org) it looks like NONE of the money went to Boehner's 8th District in SW Ohio.

Maybe he's a little pissed that the state with the 5th most stimulus projects (847) had none in District 8? Hopefully that is not the case and he really is for cutting spending.
In Missouri, all the stimulus projects listed on stimuluswatch are in areas that voted Obama.

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Titan 3/6/2009 12:09pm
3/6/2009 12:09pm
I wrote all the Utah congressmen and told them to send the money back...The Federal Government can't afford all those projects (and the only people that will be willing to work them will be illegals-when was the last time you saw a middle aged white man diggin a ditch or laying concrete???...Illegals don't pay income tax anyway..so the "putting people to work" side of the equation won't be affected...and the illegals will go to a different state and will stop draining our state resources...win/win all around. The government gets to save $58Billion...and Utah gets less illegals).

I'm only partly serious of course...but I did tell my congressment and governor to send the money back.
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Titan 3/6/2009 12:11pm
3/6/2009 12:11pm
Oh and here's the other problem I have with all these projects...

When was the last time a government funded "anything" stayed under/on budget? It didn't...that means all those roads they're going to build that they've budgeted $10Million for will end up costing $15Million.

I don't think we've seen the true cost of this spending bill.

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