Defense Bill, Lauded by White House, Contains Billions in Earmarks - washingtonpost.com
The bill, however, would add $1.7 billion for an extra destroyer the Defense Department did not request and $2.5 billion for 10 C-17 cargo planes it did not want, at the behest of lawmakers representing the states where those items would be built. Although the White House said the administration "strongly objects" to the extra C-17s and to the Senate's proposed shift of more than $3 billion from operations and maintenance accounts to projects the Pentagon did not request, no veto was threatened over those provisions.
The destroyer and the 10 cargo planes are not earmarks. These are incremental spending - totaling more than $4 billion - that was not requested by Defense.
I guess when you are running a $1.5 trillion deficit this seems like monopoly money. There is an old saying: "No one manages someone else's money as carefully as they manage their own."
Stop the madness.
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