Trim pork AND rescind "give-aways"

[annabanana]

I just saw Tom Coburn (R-Ok)talking about eliminating the pork from the highway bill. He's agreed that some of the items (deer-avoidance technology in NY, snow mobile trails in Vt.) should be trimmed in order to divert the funds to the desperate needs of the citizens in the Gulf.

How do you think he would respond to the suggestion that perhaps the extremely generous tax-cuts to the very richest among us should be revisited?

[Wickerman]

1. Gee, I guess Mr Fraud, Waste and Abuse Buster is going to give up

the nearly $400 Million that the Fed has contributed to recent Oklahoma freeways and byways?

http://www.kfor.com/Global/story.asp?S=3672551&nav=6uy5c95W
The total cost for the Crosstown is estimated at $360 million. The project had already been designated $180 million in federal funds, plus about $4.5 million from the City of Oklahoma City. The new federal transportation funding bill, which awaits President George W. Bush's signature, would provide another $120 million for the Crosstown project.

The bill would also provide an additional $120 million for a project to widen I-44 in Tulsa.

Ridley thanked the members of Oklahoma's congressional delegation, particularly U.S. Sens. James Inhofe and Tom Coburn and U.S. Rep. Ernest Istook, for their work "in helping us get enough money and bring Oklahoma dollars back to Oklahoma."

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"After including our state’s projects, Oklahoma will have a rate of return in excess of 102 percent – meaning that for every dollar Oklahoma contributes to the highway trust fund, we will receive over a dollar in federal highway funding in return," said Inhofe.

[annabanana]

3. "Oklahoma dollars back to Oklahoma"

I'm sorry okies on this board.. but that made me laugh.

[Wickerman]

4. Food Fight!

Its every state for itself!

[DS1]

2. A good old boy trying to take away from New England

Never heard of that one before. Maybe Trent Lott would like to chime in about subsidies for indepedent farming in Vermont, while he funnels billions to the much more destructive Big-Agri businesses.

Fucking scumface puke assholes