Titanic spending bills of 2009

What our government has done this year is a crime. Our national debt is at $11.79 trillion and rising, the unfunded liability for Medicare alone is $89 trillion, Social Security will begin running deficits this year, and 43 cents of every single dollar that Congress spends is borrowed money. And yet, almost no one in Washington – in either party – seems interested in steering around the giant iceberg we’re steaming toward.

Here's a list of the Titanic spending bills the Senate has passed since January. Click on the links to see how your Senators voted:

• $350 billion Wall Street bailout extension (#5)


• $787 billion stimulus (#64)


• $400 billion, earmark-infested omnibus spending bill (#96)


• $6 billion to federalize charities and pay volunteers (#115)


• $109 billion loan to the International Monetary Fund (#201)


• $3 billion for cash for clunkers (#270)


• $400 million in corporate welfare to help tourism corporations advertise overseas (#272)


• $4 billion bailout of the Postal Service (#300)

And now Congress is working its way through FY2010 appropriations bills that will increase spending 10-20 percent over last year. Those bills will include thousands of willfully wasteful earmarks, spending billions of dollars we don’t have.

There’s still time to rescue the ship, but Washington is too busy fiddling with the deckchairs. To prevent catastrophe, the American people are going to have to take the wheel. Category: Uncategorized   Tags: None

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