Thieves in the Night.

Many believe our country is at a crossroads. If you don’t happen to believe it let’s take just a peek at what is going on.

We are faced with:

   * War in Irag.

   * War in Afghanistan.

   *  Iranian Nuclear Weapon

   *  staggering National Debt.

   *  invasion by illegal immigrants

   *  national leaders out of touch with the people.

   *  treaties that are giving away our nations sovereignty.

Our elected officials Republican or Democrat cannot seem to agree on anything. They give lip service to spending control in the 30 second sound bites. They support the war and play political games with the funding. Pass legislation to build a border fence and remove the funding!

But there is one thing they are totally committed to… spending your tax dollars without any control or oversight. I am talking about earmark or ‘PORK BARREL’ spending.

The Congressional Leadership delayed funding for our troops and the border fence until the last possible minute and then approved money for our troops and removed money for the border fence.

Faced with the problems noted above our Congressmen & women did have the time to work on thousands of earmark bills that they inserted into the Omnibus Spending Bill at the last minute to avoid debate or removal.

Citizens Against Government Waste analyzed the spending bill and has a list on it’s website ( www.cagw.org ). I clicked on the button to take a look and started making some notes using $1,000,000 as a filter and in the first  few pages discovered was set too low!

Here are just a few of the projects our government is spending your tax dollars on without any oversight or debate:

Development of Specialty Markets, WI                                                           $1,875,000

Berryman Institute, UT/MS                                                                             $1,125,000

Chronic Wasting Disease Surveillance, WI                                                      $1,299,000

Emerald Ash Borer                                                                                         $1,500,000

 Hawaii Interlive (?) Activities                                                                          $2,079,000

Morman Cricket, NV                                                                                     $1,125,000

Morman Cricket, UT                                                                                     $1,125,000

Predator Research Station, UT                                                                       $1,040,000

Remote Diagnostic& Wildlife Disease Surveillance, ND                                  $1,364,000

Wisconsin Livestock Identification Consortium                                               $1,485,000

Agricultural Research Center, Logan, UT                                                       $5,600,000

Delta Nutrition Institute, Little Rock, AR                                                         $4,223,000

Ogallala Aquafer, Bushland, TX                                                                     $3,758,000

Pierce’s Disease/Glassy Winged Sharpshooter                                               $3,355,000

Shrimp Aquaculture, AZ,HI,LA,MA,MS,SC,TX                                           $3,119,000

These are just a few of the thousands on the list. Here are two of the less expensive boondoggles:

A bike path in Wisconsin                                                                                   $700,000

Brown Tree Snake Management GUAM                                                          $705,000

These are just a few to show how individual Congressmen are sticking their hands into our pockets.

Many of the Presidential Candidates are planning on spending more to fix programs in place. Have you seen Hillary’s Christmas Ad?

This last spending spree may be the act that galvanizes moderates in both parties to the ‘Paul Revolution’. Paul’s position on eliminating the Income Tax and IRS may not be a bad idea.