Tuesday, November 17, 2009
$6.4 Billion Allocated to Fictitious Congressional Districts
Watchdog.org reports that stimulus money went to 440 fictitious congressional districts, districts that do not exist. You would think that someone trying to hide graft would do a better job that that, but apparently you would be wrong.
At least $6.4 billion taxpayer dollars seems likely to have been stolen. I say "at least," because why would one assume that money was spent as advertised just because some staffer found a real congressional district number to peg it to?
The stimulus bucks would give us a boost;
That was the pitch we were sold,
But the grifters and con men quickly were loosed,
And now we find we were rolled.
Our money was sent to fictional places,
Districts that do not exist.
The usual suspects were off to the races,
And government graft still persists.
Our money now lines some rent seekers’ pockets,
And Congressmens’ probably too.
It’s lost in the ether just like a rocket,
And no one’s around we can sue.
Now here’s just one reason among many others
Why government needs to stand down.
It’s not looking after us as would our mothers;
If you believe that you’re beclowned.
It spends like a sailor with one night ashore;
It’s wastefulness always expands.
There’s never enough; it always needs more.
We’re left in the worst of all hands.
To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
At least $6.4 billion taxpayer dollars seems likely to have been stolen. I say "at least," because why would one assume that money was spent as advertised just because some staffer found a real congressional district number to peg it to?
The stimulus bucks would give us a boost;
That was the pitch we were sold,
But the grifters and con men quickly were loosed,
And now we find we were rolled.
Our money was sent to fictional places,
Districts that do not exist.
The usual suspects were off to the races,
And government graft still persists.
Our money now lines some rent seekers’ pockets,
And Congressmens’ probably too.
It’s lost in the ether just like a rocket,
And no one’s around we can sue.
Now here’s just one reason among many others
Why government needs to stand down.
It’s not looking after us as would our mothers;
If you believe that you’re beclowned.
It spends like a sailor with one night ashore;
It’s wastefulness always expands.
There’s never enough; it always needs more.
We’re left in the worst of all hands.
To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
Labels: Congress, doggerel, taxation, Tea Party
Thursday, September 03, 2009
Coinage of the Day
Daniel Henninger gets it with the term "lumpen bureaucratariat," as in:
In short, the lumpen electorate works, and the lumpen bureaucratariat spends. They get away with it because they have perfected the illusion that no human hand causes these commitments. The payroll tax just happens. Entitlements are "off-budget," presumably in the hands of God. This is government without the responsibility of governance.To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
Labels: quote of the day, Tea Party
Tuesday, August 25, 2009
Nancy Pelosi Really Should Go See
The link is to a blog post on Kenneth Gladney's beating by Democrat-supporting SEIU thugs. Herewith some doggerel:
Nancy Pelosi should really go see
Who comes to a town hall,
But probably soon she’d turn loose her goons,
Thus turning it into a brawl.
To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
Nancy Pelosi should really go see
Who comes to a town hall,
But probably soon she’d turn loose her goons,
Thus turning it into a brawl.
To reply, email texthepontificator at yahoo dot com.
Labels: doggerel, Nancy Pelosi, Tea Party, town halls
