Is the Majority of Congress Still Deaf?

There are at least 6,488 earmarks in the omnibus bill under consideration by Congress. Below are just a few examples of the insanity: $277,000 for potato pest management in Wisconsin, $246,000 for bovine tuberculosis in Michigan and Minnesota, $522,000 for cranberry and blueberry disease and breeding in New Jersey, $500,000 for oyster, safety in Florida, $349,000 for swine waste management in North Carolina, $413,000 for peanut research in Alabama, $247,000 for virus free wine grapes in Washington, $208,000 beaver management in North Carolina,

 $94,000 for blackbird management in Louisiana, $165,000 for maple syrup research in Vermont, $235,000 for noxious weed management in Nevada , $100,000 for the Edgar Allen Poe Cottage Visitor’s Center in New York, $300,000 for the Polynesian Voyaging Society in Hawaii, $400,000 for solar parking canopies and plug-in electric stations in Kansas. John McCain offered this observation: “Additionally, the bill earmarks $727,000 to compensate ranchers in Wisconsin, Minnesota and Michigan whenever endangered wolves eat their cattle. As my colleagues know, the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service’s Gray Wolf program is under intense scrutiny for wasting millions of taxpayer dollars every year to ‘recover’ endangered wolves that are now overpopulating the West and Midwest. My State of Arizona has a similar wolf program but ranchers in my state aren’t getting $727,000 in this bill." Erskine Bowles head of the president's Debt Commission said, "The era of deficity denial is over." Oh really!

Is the Majority of Congress Still Deaf?