Democrat “Budget Hawk” Looks To Add Another $3+ Billion In Spending
Here is the Democrat's "budget hawk," Senator Kent Conrad, proposing another $3,566,000,000 in spending.
This, of course, is the same Kent Conrad who called the national budget one "only a debt lover could love" before promptly voting against legislation that would have stopped the raiding of Social Security funds by politicians looking to fund other projects, voting against legislation that would have stopped $10 billion in mandatory spending, voting in favor of $7 billion in additional social spending, adding $1.1 billion to the national budget for B-52's at his home state's air bases, and getting behind a Democrat spending plan that would create another $144 billion in new spending.
All this and Kent Conrad still tries to tell us that he has "fiscal discipline."
Give me a break. Kent Conrad may talk a good game about fiscal discipline, but his actions speak louder than his words.
At least 20 Senators from both sides of the aisle have signed-on to the Emergency Agricultural Disaster Assistance Act of 2006. Senator Kent Conrad of North Dakota is lead sponsor of the bill, the latest effort to get some kind of disaster assistance for farm losses in 2005. The package includes assistance for crop production loss, livestock assistance, and supplemental nutrition and economic disaster assistance to aid with rapidly escalating production input costs. It also includes a number of provisions to specifically address agricultural recovery in the region affected by Hurricane Katrina.
In introducing the bill, Senator Conrad stated, "This bill wouldn't make any farmer or rancher whole, but it goes a long way to making sure that producers who have seen losses at the hands of Mother Nature have a chance to stay in business."
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The cost of the package is estimated at $3.566 billion.
This, of course, is the same Kent Conrad who called the national budget one "only a debt lover could love" before promptly voting against legislation that would have stopped the raiding of Social Security funds by politicians looking to fund other projects, voting against legislation that would have stopped $10 billion in mandatory spending, voting in favor of $7 billion in additional social spending, adding $1.1 billion to the national budget for B-52's at his home state's air bases, and getting behind a Democrat spending plan that would create another $144 billion in new spending.
All this and Kent Conrad still tries to tell us that he has "fiscal discipline."
Give me a break. Kent Conrad may talk a good game about fiscal discipline, but his actions speak louder than his words.
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