Congressional Earmarks Continue to be a Major Problem: It's Going to Bankrupt the Nation

Time to fasten our seat belts; Congress is taking us on another pork ride.

The new omnibus bill that President Bush has just signed contains close to 9,800 earmarks, which add up to about $10 billion. Add the earmarks from the recently passed defense bill, and that number jumps up to 12,000 earmarks. It's being said that it took six hours to print out the omnibus bill, and when finished stood two feet high.

Super-massive omnibus spending bills have to be ended, and the bill broken into it's constituent parts. The smaller the spending bills in terms of what's being funded, the greater chance we'll have to see the pork that has been slipped into the various parts.

$10 billion more to the piggies!!