‘Tis the season for consumer spending, and no collection of humanity does it better than the U.S. Congress. According to the Associated Press, here are a few of the itemized gifts being wrapped at taxpayers’ expense:
• Huge increase in foreign aid coupled with an 18 percent cut to a program that helps states with cost of incarcerating criminal illegal immigrants
• Reinstituting a needle exchange program in the District of Columbia
• Eliminating the D.C. voucher program that allows less fortunate students to attend prestigious schools
• Another $2.5 billion for high-speed rail programs added to the $8 billion provided in the stimulus package
Oh yeah; the omnibus spending bill is going to fund nine cabinet agencies whose fiscal year budgets began back on October 1st. As usual, timing is everything…
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