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Ron Paul one of only four House Republicans to request earmarks for 2011 budget (Scammer!)

WI ^ | Dec 8, 2011 | Patrick Caldwell

Posted on by MindBender26

U.S. Rep. Ron Paul (R-Texas) was one of only four House Republicans to break rank from the party and request earmarks despite a Republican Conference earmark moratorium. Paul sent 41 earmark requests totaling $157,093,544 for the 2011 Fiscal Year. His largest single request was $19,500,000 for a naval training ship at the Texas Maritime Academy in Galveston, followed by a $18,126,000 to provide maintenance on the Matagorda Ship Channel.

For Fiscal Year 2010, Paul requested 54 total earmarks, adding up to $398,460,640 in pork that the former presidential candidate sought to bring home to his district. These requests were made prior to the House Republican Conferences voluntary ban on filing earmarks.

Pauls largest request in 2010 was $51.5 million in federal money to be spent on Reconstruction of Bluewater Highway Hurricane Evacuation Route Between Brazoria and Galveston Counties in Texas. He requested another $50 million to be directed to the Gulf Intracoastal Waterway and $46 million for deepening the Texas City channel. The majority of Pauls requests were for projects related to various ports and channels, though other sectors of his district also received attention, such as $20 million for a hospital in Chambers County. Even smaller projects received attention from the libertarian representative, such as $2.5 million requested to redevelop historic downtown area and to purchase trash cans, bike racks and decorative street lighting in Baytown.

While Paul requested these earmarks, he can still claim to have voted against the spending. Heres how he defended his earmarking habit when he was challenged during a Fox News interview in 2009:

"I think youre missing the whole point. I have never voted for an earmark. I voted against all appropriation bills. So, this whole thing about earmarks is totally misunderstood."



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He is such a fraud. On top of the bike racks, he has also received $3,000,000 for a shrimp museum! His scam is very simple. He works overtime to get all the pork he can, even trash cans paid for by federal taxpayer dollars. Then once all his pork is in the bill, and everyone has agreed to the compromise, he votes against it. The result is 434-1, but he can claim to never have voted for pork, etc! It's like Jackie Kennedy's sister Lee claiming she was not a whore because she never took money for a weekend of sex. That was true. She never took cash. The price was a $10,000 diamond bracelet from Harry Winston jewelers, which always went back for a 90% credit on Monday.



To: MindBender26

But, but, but, Paul doesn’t do earmarks. The Ronulans told me so.



To: MindBender26

The majority of Pauls requests were for projects related to various ports and channels, Considering the Army Corps of Engineers has claimed dominion over every navigable waterway (that which will float a log), it is only right that those waterways be maintained with Federal Funds. I'm not sure I'd throw in maintaining facillities necessary to commerce as "pork", especially when it is the Federal Government which is ultimately responsible for that maintainence. It won't get done without the money.



by 3 posted onby Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)

To: Smokin' Joe

Except that (simple maintenance) has nothing to do with earmarks, nice try though.



To: Smokin' Joe

What do navigable waters have to do with our taxpayer dollars paying for trash cans, bike racks and a $3,000,000 shrimp museum in his district?



by 5 posted onby MindBender26 (Don't bother me with the small stuff. I'm too busy trying to save the Republic from Obamaism)

To: WHBates

Dredging a ship channel? Yeah, right. No draft, no shipping, no shit.



by 6 posted onby Smokin' Joe (How often God must weep at humans' folly. Stand fast. God knows what He is doing)

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