{"id":48865,"date":"2014-12-10T18:03:20","date_gmt":"2014-12-11T01:03:20","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/shoes-ships-sealing-wax-bigger-donations-no-pot.html"},"modified":"2014-12-12T09:20:59","modified_gmt":"2014-12-12T16:20:59","slug":"shoes-ships-sealing-wax-bigger-donations-no-pot","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2014\/12\/10\/shoes-ships-sealing-wax-bigger-donations-no-pot.html","title":{"rendered":"Shoes, Ships, Sealing Wax, Bigger Donations, No Pot"},"content":{"rendered":"

Though Bismark didn't actually compare lawmaking to sausage-making (http:\/\/wist.info\/bismark-otto-von\/18865\/<\/a>), the amount of negotiated crap that goes into big budget bills — especially ones quickly negotiated behind closed doors in order to keep the government from shutting down (again) would cause an FDA inspector to turn green (assuming the budget didn't cut FDA inspections further).<\/p>\n

As always, amongst the bits and bobs of stuff inserted into the big bill, nobody will be completely happy (or unhappy). It just seems like a crazy way to run a country. <\/p>\n

More on the trillion-dollar budget process here: http:\/\/www.theatlantic.com\/politics\/archive\/2014\/12\/congress-trillion-dollar-spending-bill\/383606\/<\/a> .<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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\nJoe Biden Isn’t Getting a Raise and Other Budget Oddities<\/a><\/span>
\nCongress’s new spending bill is packed with “riders” that change policy on everything from the sage-grouse to D.C. marijuana laws.\n<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

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Though Bismark didn't actually compare lawmaking to sausage-making (http:\/\/wist.info\/bismark-otto-von\/18865\/), the amount of negotiated crap that goes into big budget bills — especially ones quickly negotiated behind closed doors in order to keep the government from shutting down (again) would cause an FDA inspector to turn green (assuming the budget didn't cut FDA inspections further). As … Continue reading “Shoes, Ships, Sealing Wax, Bigger Donations, No Pot”<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_seopress_robots_primary_cat":"","_seopress_titles_title":"","_seopress_titles_desc":"","_seopress_robots_index":"","_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true,"jetpack_social_post_already_shared":true,"jetpack_social_options":{"image_generator_settings":{"template":"highway","default_image_id":0,"font":"","enabled":false},"version":2}},"categories":[106,358,376],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-48865","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-plusposts","category-poor-citizenship","category-taxing-spending"],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack-related-posts":[{"id":133731,"url":"https:\/\/hill-kleerup.org\/blog\/2017\/06\/26\/oh-boy-only-22-million-more-lose-their-insurance-with-this-plan.html","url_meta":{"origin":48865,"position":0},"title":"Oh, boy, ONLY 22 million more lose their insurance with THIS plan!","author":"***Dave","date":"Mon 26-Jun-17 6:11pm","format":false,"excerpt":"And as Republicans pop champagne and congratulate themselves for being marginally less \"mean\" (as the Donald put it) on this iteration of the bill, bear in mind that ...... the CBO only scores out ten years. 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