Pork projects, discretionary spending, or whatever you want to call it, is capped at 1% of the total federal budget. Cutting 1% of the federal budget probably isn’t going to solve all our problems, so if John McCain is being elected for the purpose of cutting out pork projects that’s only going to save us $18 billion dollars.
For all the wrath pork projects receive, many of them are actually worthwhile endeavors. By cutting that spending we will be eliminating many of those grants, programs, and projects this money supports. While in the long run that probably would be a good thing for our country to cut it, I’m not convinced the problem has as large of an effect as it’s …
A 2000 Republican National Committee Ad railing against Al Gore for proposing new spending. It’s amazing how a few years changes everything. Just goes to show how disappointed many of us Republicans are with the way our party has gone over the past four years in terms of it’s total disregard for fiscal responsibility.
In 2009, Fort Wayne will recieve a windfall of $40 million from the City Light Lease fund. As promised in your campaign, the public will be consulted. I ask that you don’t spend a dime of that money.
Let’s say we spend that money on another huge project all at once, if that project flops we’re out the money and the reserve that could have been hundreds of millions in the future.
If invested at a conservative rate of 8% (not even close to the markets average of 12%), that money will generate a return of over $3,000,000 – so lets be conservative and use half of that to provide city services. We’ll add money to the pot and Fort …
As the Ethonol fad continues to be the center of buzz in environmental friendly fuels, one car company is already jumping past the biofuel faze. In just a few months, Tokyo based Honda will introduce the all-new FCX Clarity Advanced Fuel Cell Vehicle. Honda touts the FCX Clarity as “a next generation, zero-emissions, hydrogen-powered fuel cell vehicle based on the entirely-new Honda V Flow fuel cell platform.”
Honda plans to release the car this summer on a limited basis to customers in Southern California. While the company will continue to tweak the final details, preliminary reports indicate the company plans to …
Normally, when a business is having internal issues they either have their own Internal Affairs Department come in to fix the problem or the company hires an outside consultant to study the problem.
In the case of Major League Baseball, they were provided with a third option. A free option at that! Congress.
A congressional committiee has been investigating steroids in baseball over the past few weeks. In response to the Mitchell Report, which actually turned out to be quite useless the Congress decided to use its valuble time to work on an issue so unimportant to their constituents.
If Major League Baseball has a steroid problem, let them pay for the solution. When there …
Normally, when a business is having internal issues they either have their own Internal Affairs Department come in to fix the problem or the company hires an outside consultant to study the problem.
