FY 2009: Hard Evidence of Federal Falsehood via Fiscal Foolishness

Double check those Chinese calendars. 2009 was supposed to be The Year of the Ox, but all indications show that Washington is still partying like it's 2007: The Year of the Pig.

CNN reports that the House has recently passed a $410 Billion dollar spending bill. As with any "spending bill," each Congressional district helps themselves to the Pork Buffet supplied and stocked by American taxpayers.

Egregious sums of swine consumption are nothing new from the Capitol, but this particular bill- one that features a "Tatoo Removal Violence Prevention Outreach Project" (I mean that's how most fights I know of have started) and funding for "Maine lobster" (an ambiguous project, but one of dubious neccessity) among other superfluous expenses- casts an ominous cloud of suspicion over nascent executive Barack Obama. Obama, who signed a petition during the heat of his presidential bid vowing abstinence from pork related propositions, has turned a blind eye to continued abuse of taxpayer money.

Obama's presidential campaign expressed the sentiment that "Washington [must take] responsibility for every dime that it spends". Is it just me, or is anyone else wondering if Washington (which includes the President) has indeed taken responsibility for spending on a deep-sea voyaging fund for native Hawaiian youth?

This line of thought leaves Washington with three options:

1. Eliminate Pork, thus eliminating hypocrisy and proving the responsibility required of public servants.

2. Consider Pork Acceptable, this proves legislators' responsibility, but also their incompetence, as previously listed projects are indisputably unacceptable.

3. Disregard Pork's Unnacceptability, this is, unfortunately, the apparent modus operandi of our legislators. Assuming (generously) that they retain a modicum of intelligence, those responsible for this outrageous load of earmarks recognize the atrocity of their spending habits, and are unconcerned with the implications this has on the tremendous moral trust bestowed on them by their constituencies.

Regardless, such obviously unneccesary pork projects are abusive and abbhorent. Although the Senate will surely pass this unsavory legislation, Super Libertarian urges you to point out the discrepency between the Chinese Zodiac and Washington's spending habits by pushing hard for a Philibuster!