Interesting $48B Earmark

[Ben]

To his buddy, who works out of his house, and whose manifesto is based on, "The rich giving more money to the poor so the poor have money to spend".

http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/12/16/breaking-rep-emanuel-cleaver-earmarks-48-billion-to-pal-who-runs-child-day-care-center-from-home-with-his-wife/

[Monkeyleg]

Sheesh. Usually corruption of that scale is, shall we say, less transparent? I'm surprised the FBI isn't investigating.

[SADShooter]

If I was involved in something like that, I'd be debarred and on EPLS in a flash. Grr.

[Jim147]

I used to do service in that area. You could buy miles of property with four million. Now with 48 billion. Wow. I don't think there is anyone in that district that has a clue what that much money would be like.

jim

[KD5NRH]

To his buddy, who works out of his house, and whose manifesto is based on, "The rich giving more money to the poor so the poor have money to spend".

http://biggovernment.com/jhoft/2010/12/16/breaking-rep-emanuel-cleaver-earmarks-48-billion-to-pal-who-runs-child-day-care-center-from-home-with-his-wife/

Particularly amusing is the comment that it could "put him on the road to success."  $2 million invested at 4% APY would pay $80k per year, which is pretty darn successful in most places, (and no, you don't get to pick some place with an insane cost of living to make it sound like less, since you only need to be somewhere in the developed world to access the interest payments) but he need $48 billion to have a chance at success?

[longeyes]

You see this kind of lunacy in post-colonial hellholes.  Wonder what that tells us about where we're heading...

[Perd Hapley]

But it's for the children!

[cassandra and sara's daddy]

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1688546.html

[Perd Hapley]

http://www.semissourian.com/story/1688546.html

And the article says:

The wording on Cleaver's website caused the confusion.

So even if this is overblown, Cleaver is still to blame? OK.

Also from the article:

"I think it would be hilarious if thousands of people did not believe it," said Cleaver, who is serving his third term representing the 5th District of Missouri in the House of Representatives. "It's the most bizarre thing I've ever experienced in my years in politics."

We've come to expect bizarre levels of corruption these days, so...