Tracking our tax dollars
$93,000: The INCREASE in the amount of petty cash each of our
Congressional representatives voted to give themselves in
January 2009 during the height of an economic meltdown.
That's a $40 + million INCREASE!
$12,000,000: The amount of TARP money provided to community bank
OneUnited despite the fact that it did not qualify for
funds, and was "under attack from its regulators for
allegations of poor lending practices and executive-pay
abuses." It turns out that Rep. Maxine Waters, a key
contributor to the Fannie Mae meltdown, just happens to be
married to one of the bank's former directors.
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB123258284337504295.html$2,000,000,000:$2,000,000,000:
$2,000,000,000: ($2 billion) the approximate amount of money that House
Appropriation's Chairman David Obey is earmarking
related to his son's lobbying efforts. The son, Craig Obey, is "a top lobbyist for the nonprofit group" that would
receive a roughly $2 billion component of the "Stimulus"
http://www.newwest.net/topic/article/a_plan_for_stimulus_money_national_parks/C530/L37/
$3,700,000,000:($3.7 billion) not to be outdone, this is the estimated
value of various defense contracts awarded to a company
controlled by the husband of Rep. Diane Feinstein.
Despite an obvious conflict-of-interest as "a member of
20 the Military Construction Appropriations subcommittee,
Sen.Feinstein voted for appropriations worth billions to her husband's firms?."
http://www.sfgate.com/cgi-bin/article.cgi?file=/chronicle/archive/2003/04/22/MN310531.DTL
$4,190,000,000: ($4.19 billion) the amount of money in t he so-called
"Stimulus" package devoted to fraudulent voter
registration ACORN group, under the auspices of "Community
Stabilization Activities". ACORN is currently the subject
of a RICO suit in Ohio .
http://www.ocregister.com/articles/stimulus-economy-percent-2295331-bill-pelosi
It's a culture of corruption. In addition, these folks appear to be above the law.
All of the afore mentioned are still in office, ruling like royalty they've become.
Not voting contributes to this corruption.
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