US House to Vote on $68 Million Private Parking Garage

  I understand that when we are speaking in terms of trillions of dollars that a mere $68 million is really just a drop in the bucket. But that is how much money it will take to renovate two private parking garages that the United States House of Representatives use. As this article points out that is equal to over $150,000 per congressman for an improved parking space. The house will be voting soon on appropriating this money.

  It seems to me that when the president proposed his $100 million in budget cuts (also a drop in the bucket that totaled only .007% of the budget) that this idea could have been scrapped as well. How can the congress justify renovations to their parking lot for that price tag when there are many other good uses for that money? Cutting taxes and giving the money back to the people to spend and stimulate the economy sounds like a good plan to me. Unfortunately this president thinks that he can spend our money more wisely than we can and does not understand the concept that if people have more money they will spend more and this will help the economy. Sorry, I got off topic; back to the issue.

  This is exactly the type of wasteful spending that needs to be done away with, especially in the recession that has only deepened under the influence of this president’s economic policies.

  When every day thousands of Americans are losing their jobs how can these people even have the balls to debate and complain about the fact that their private parking garages aren’t nice enough? 

  If these people care about the American people at all, (scratch that last statement, there is not one of them that gives a damn about the American people), or even just the way they are perceived, then they will vote this bill down. If they do not vote this down then we must remember and vote them down in 2010.