Letter: The 'three pigs' of government
Not"The Three Little Pigs" fable about three pigs who build three houses of different materials, but the three pigs in Washington, D.C., the U.S. government. My three pigs are the representatives in the House, Senate and executive office . The $1.7 trillion dollar omnibus funding that's a Christmas tree of federal spending, with a variety of expenditures for all"The Three Pigs.
But it was two incumbents who did not run for reelection and are retiring, Richard Shelby and Patrick Leahy , the architects of the bill being more than 4,100 pages long."The Three Pigs" had less than 72 hours to read this massive spending bill, which sets appropriations levels and allocations for the remainder of the 2022 fiscal year plus 2023 and is not touchable by the incoming House to be controlled by Republicans until September 2023.
Illinois earmarks are: Lauren Underwood , $20 million; Bill Foster , $25.8 million; Brad Schneider , $52.2 million; Jan Schakowsky , $26.2 million; Raja Krishnamoorthi , $13.6 million; Sean Casten , $15.8 million; Mike Quigley , $16.5 million and Marie Newman , $23.5 million. The U.S. national debt is $31 trillion and public debt to GDP ratio is 94.5% with the U.S. national debt on pace to be 225% of GDP by 2050. So the Christmas tree was lit by all elected Democrats and 18 Republican senators, with six voting senators retiring .
No help against inflation impacting all U.S. citizens or forethought as to the looming 2023 recession.
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