They already got theirs...they don't give a big shit.

[kentuck]

They have given away the store and the country. We are so far in debt we can forget about taking care of the needy for a long time. We can't afford them. They have destroyed the revenue base that our country was dependent upon, following some pie-in-the-sky economic theory about the more they could cut taxes, the more revenue it would bring in. It's amazing how many people actually believed that crap.

Yes, a few Repub Congressmen may be worried about their jobs but they are expendable. In the big picture, they are only small fish to be used by sharks that have been trying to rob us since the first day our country was born. Well, they have finally succeeded. And they don't really give a big shit about the Republican Congressmen either. They've got theirs. And you ain't getting it back...

[Jim Warren]

1. lie-in-the-sky more like it

They never believed that shit for a minute. It was/is always about these parasites getting their hands on the public treasury.....it's big enough and the scale and scope so huge they know it's EASY to slid out a few hundred mil here, a few there.

This is to me the absolute pisser to bastards, they know it's easy money......easier than working for a living.....and the taxpayers to them are like the rubes of The Music Man.

[ellenfl]

2. i totally agree. they're laughing all the way to the bank.

btw, look for halliburton to get the ports job . . . as an outsource of dubai ports world.

ellen fl

[Trevelyan]

3. K&R Daily Kos diarist who also has written DU articles, lost his job.

We need to have more articles on how American unemployed numbers are growing and the suffering it is causing. Many Rs & Ds might be more motivated to Impeach bush if they knew more about what he has done to our economy and how it will be affecting them soon, if it hasn't already.
http://hughesforamerica.typepad.com/hughes_for_america/2006/03/thank_you_for_y.html

==I lost my job yesterday Fri Mar 17, 2006
Sad, isn't it, that I can distinctly remember reading posts with the same title on numerous occasions? Until now, I've read each, helped when needed and lamented the sorry state of affairs under the Bush economy. And until now, I've counted myself thankful that I was able to maintain steady employment. But yesterday I lost my job.

President Bush once called having three jobs "uniquely American." I wonder what he would call having no jobs? Probably just "American," since being unemployed is a fairly common thing under the Bush administration...

Joblessness is up and so is the hopelessness that things won't be getting better anytime soon under current leadershipIf you can help, please visit the First (and hopefully last) Hughes for America FUNemployement Pledge Drive. I can't thank you enough; I'd run out of bandwidth if I could. So your support at this time would be much appreciated. Thank you!

Tags: Employment, economy, progressives (all tags)

[Atman]

4. THEY will be the ones to have to pay it back when sane people take over

That is why they give a shit now. The only way out of this mess is massive tax increases, and the only people with any money left to tax are Bush's base. They took it all. They don't want dems getting back in power and messing it all up for them. They fought hard to screw America and still its money. They aren't about to give any of it back without a fight.

Of course, the first thing they'll do is try to convince Joe Bluecollar that the democrats want to increase his taxes, and they'll use it in an anemic attempt to reinvigorate the "Tax & Spend" liberal meme. But that ship has already sailed. The Republicans now officially own the title of the biggest spenders in history, and the most fiscally irresponsible group ever to sully the halls of Congress. They're fucked...they know it...it is such hard work being a billionaire and having to count all that money!

[kentuck]

6. Parliamentary gimmicks will prevent any big changes....

in the present tax system, in my opinion.

[Trevelyan]

5. Feds Wasted Millions in Katrina Contracts, Audit Finds

By HOPE YEN, AP

WASHINGTON (March 17) - The government wasted millions of dollars in its award of post-Katrina Hurricane contracts for disaster relief, including at least $3 million for 4,000 beds that were never used, congressional auditors said Thursday...

The Government Accountability Office's review of 13 major contracts - many of them awarded with limited or no competition after the Aug. 29 hurricane - offers the first preliminary overview of their soundness.

Waste and mismanagement were widespread due to poor planning and miscommunication, according to the five-page briefing paper released Thursday. That led to money being paid for services, such as housing or ice, that were never used.

"The government's response to Hurricanes Katrina and Rita depended heavily on contractors to deliver ice, water and food supplies; patch rooftops; and provide housing to displaced residents," said the report by the GAO, Congress' auditing arm. "FEMA did not adequately anticipate needs."

Nicol Andrews, a spokeswoman for the Federal Emergency Management Agency, said the agency was working hard to improve its awarding of billions of dollars of government contracts as it prepares for the next hurricane season...

Of more than 700 contracts valued at $500,000 or greater,:nuke: more than half were awarded without full competition or with vague or open-ended terms, including politically connected companies such as Halliburton subsidiary Kellogg, Brown & Root, Bechtel Corp. and AshBritt Inc.

Democrats, in particular, in recent weeks have called for limits on no-bid agreements, which they say have been awarded to politically influential companies at the expense of a slow Gulf Coast rebuilding effort.

"Previous reports of waste in the aftermath of Katrina have been bad, but this one is worse," said Rep. Henry Waxman of California, the top Democrat on the House Government Reform Committee.

"The Bush administration has learned nothing from its disastrous contract management in Iraq," he said. "The administration seems incapable of spending money in a way that actually meets the needs of Gulf Coast residents."...

[snacker]

7. I agree--that's it in a nutshell. n/t