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Obama Earmark Policy Evaluates an earmark and determines that it has no legitimate purpose

"If my administration evaluates an earmark and determines that it has no legitimate public purpose, we will seek to eliminate it," Obama said.

-- Obama Policy Source: BarackObama.com

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: What is "no legitimate purpose"? Another campaign promise with no intent to make it happen.

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: "Obama criticized pork barrel spending in the form of 'earmarks,' urging changes in the way that Congress adopts the spending proposals. Then he signed a spending bill that contains nearly 9,000 of them, some that members of his own staff shoved in last year when they were still members of Congress. 'Let there be no doubt, this piece of legislation must mark an end to the old way of doing business, and the beginning of a new era of responsibility and accountability,' Obama said."

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: Obama's 2009 Federal Budget contains over 8,000 earmarks some of which are his. There has been no attempt to reduce earmarks by the DEMS and Obama refused to veto the spending bill.

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: "Done right, earmarks have given legislators the opportunity to direct federal money to worthy projects that benefit people in their district, and that's why I have opposed their outright elimination," Obama said. "But the fact is that on occasion, earmarks have been used as a vehicle for waste, and fraud and abuse. Projects have been inserted at the 11th hour, without review, and sometimes without merit, in order to satisfy the political or personal agendas of a given legislator, rather than the public interest." ---Obama remarks 3-10-09 Another Obama Failed Policy in Obama's own words

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: So this is the change that Obama promised. Looks like business as usual and that Nancy Peolosi is running the government with Obama as her lap dog.

Obama Failed Earmark Policy: There is no transparency and no posting of bills on the internet 72 hours before signing the bill in Obama's first 100 days. It is business as usual in pork barrel spending and special interests lobbying as we accumulate massive deficits that will injure the economy forever.