While everyone is rightly focusing on the vote-buying and pork-barreling in the health care bill, it might also be worth looking at what else the Senate has been doing.
Last weekend, the Senate passed an omnibus spending bill that contained 5,224 disclosed earmarks worth $3.9 billion, according to Taxpayers for Common Sense. Then this past Saturday morning, the Senate passed a Defense spending bill for fiscal 2010 that included 1,720 disclosed earmarks worth $4.2 billion.
These bills all have one thing in common. As with the health care bill that passed the Senate — a huge boon for private insurers and drug-makers — someone is getting rich every time government gets bigger. And it isn’t you.
