Political Reality

The override of the President's Veto on the Water Bill shows what is wrong with Congress. The bill started out with projects that had gone through a considerable study phase got projects added that had been earlier rejected by engineers as lacking feasibility or had never been studied. These added projects had one thing in common PORK. So the President saw these added expenditures and saw a chance to shut up the liberal congress (led by socialists Reed and Pelosi) by saying “You say I am causing a deficient; vote for one yourselves.”

The bill contained only authorizations for the projects; the appropriations for the projects are yet to come. Again the President will say “You guys take the heat for the deficient”

Here is some political reality. Every project will be attacked by an environmental wacko group in court; the money to defend against those attacks will come from project money thus many projects will not go forward even if they win in court because there will not be enough money to fund the actual project. Since Federal law says these wacko groups get paid by the government for bringing these wacko suits; about a quarter of the money will go to wacko groups.

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