There's another 410 billion bill with 8,000 earmarks on the way to President Obama's desk. Near as I can tell this is the government's '09 ah...budget. Dems are calling it last year's spending left over from the Bush administration, even though it was passed by this year's congress and will be signed by the new President earmarks and all. The omnibus bill has 19 billion more than the Bush administration had appropriated for '09, but what the heck, 19 bil is chicken feed compared to what congress and the new president have spent in the last 50 days.

The bill was passed by both parties with 60% of the earmarks in it for the Dems and 40% for the Reps. That about mirrors my level of disgust with each party. Mr. Obama will sign the pork laden budget despite his loud campaign promises to go through bills line by line and not tolerate earmarks. He still has a very high approval rating, broken promises and all.

A 650+ billion 'down payment' on a groovy new national health care plan is in the works. But hey, knowing the government is going to take care of us will make us all feel better when we look at the 401k quarterly reports. I'll bet red ink is in shorter supply than ammo these days.

The next social engineering, er I mean stimulus package looms in the distance. According to the President the first one didn't have any earmarks, so I'm sure the next one won't either.

Start teaching your grand kids Cantonese, all that money's gotta come from somewhere.