Obama’s spending too much already
By THOMAS ROWLAND
Multimedia Editor
On Wednesday, President Obama signed a congressional spending bill in the amount of $410 billion dollars. The bill contains approximately 8,000 earmarks for congressional pet projects totally near $8 billion,according to CNN. This on Obama’s 50th day in office.
I have been critical of Obama in the past, and will continue to be critical. I feel Obama is not the bright shining hope this nation needed so desperately, though John McCain probably isn’t the answer either. It seems to me, however, that Obama, while he was courting the American public, said that these were precisely the type of wasteful initiatives that his administration would reject. Yet today, sure enough, $8 billion in earmarked congressional pet projects was signed into law.
Obama’s people said that this spending bill was a leftover from the previous Congress and needed to be signed quickly. I just don’t understand how anyone can justify wasteful spending like this at a time when America is on its knees financially. Mr. President, if you weren’t serious about change, please just don’t make anything worse.
