The ever expanding bailout bill: let's keep track of the earmarks!

You know what they say: A billion here, a billion there and pretty soon you're talking about real money. Earmarks aren't huge as a percentage of the budget, but I would argue the budget is too big. Adding roughly $180.00 annually to each household with earmarks isn't helping matters.

For the record, the only way the budget gets fixed is to attack "entitlements". I put the word in quotes, because in my view I'm only entitled to life, liberty and the pursuit of happiness. I would also like to set up an amortization schedule for paying down our current debt.

 

Would anyone else like to see a law passed that any bill put before the Congress can only have one subject? For example, if you want to pass an earmark to build a bridge in Montana, it has to go in an infrastructure bill. If you're going to offer a bill to cover mental health in insurance, then it has to go under a heathcare bill.