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WND Poll: Let Them Eat Pork

Posted by DFO

Feb. 14, 2009 12:10 a.m. • 3 comments

Question: What do you think about Schumer’s remark that Americans don’t care about pork?/WorldNetDaily.com

He’s right - this is an emergency spending bill for an economic crisis
He’s right - “pork” is just a biased term used by those opposed to government investment
He’s right - great civilizations require great governments to lead boldl
Americans are opposed to pork-barrel spending everywhere else but they want their own representative to bring home the bacon
In a sense he’s right because man’s nature is covetous
His wording was careless but if Americans really cared they could put a stop to pork-barrel spending
He’s wrong - Americans are simply frustrated there’s no way to end pork-barrel spending
Schumer also doesn’t believe Americans have Second Amendment rights
Charles Schumer lives in a parallel socialist New York universe - he doesn’t have a clue what Americans care about
It was an arrogant lie from a man who happens to occupy a safe senatorial seat
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Three comments on this post so far. Add yours!

hhuseland on February 14 at 6:30 p.m.
Just a thought, but if you often drive off the freeways onto the old highway systems like US 10, 2 etc. and cross a concrete bridge. stop and look at the bridge abutment. chances are, it will have a date, and a reference to the “CCC” Civilian conservation corps. Most of the prewar (WW11) bridges were built during the Roosevelt era by these young men that would have otherwise been homeless and out of work.

While I’m not an advocate of socialism, we seemed to have weathered that storm, and WW11 created the opportunity to recover our capitalistic principles. One can only hope that our government will act as wisely now as it did back then. Unfortunately, heavy industry is what brought us out of the “Great Depression,” and we’ve shipped all of those jobs overseas, so that the Asian economy could benefit. I’m not sure what lever we have to climb out of this one.
HonestGeorge on February 15 at 1:26 p.m.
Every city, county, tribe, port district and economic development ageny depends on “pork” to accomplish the things that we label progress.

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