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As reported in the ISJ, congress has just spent a super-massive 290 billion clams on a new farm/nutrition/bioenergy bill. This really shows our government operating at its worst in modern times. The bill is so fiscally irresponsible, so full of pork, so full of bail-outs and entitlements, so full of anti-competition, so full of waste, so full of business-as-usual-spend-like-there's-no-tomorrow antics. This bill is really really bad, and the president is powerless to stop it, despite a vow to veto.
This is proof that almost nobody is really serious about fiscal responsibility. Larry Craig, Mike Crapo, Mike Simpson, and Bill Sali, who all act as Idaho's representation in congress, all voted for this bill. I can't think of anybody who gets on his soap box more than Craig when it comes to preaching about balancing the budget.
All the major presidential candidates failed to vote at all on this legislation; how convenient. Ron Paul, to his...
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