House passes $410 billion spending bill....

The bill includes 200k for tattoo removal for former gang-members as well as funding for some hybrid grape project and funding to control a beaver population. This bill is full of earmarks. Didn't Obama say he was gonna cut out all the pork and refuse to sign a bill full of earmarks? If he signs this bill, which to me would be Obama going back on his word, how am I suppose to support/respect him as our president?

It's not about Democrat or Republican because both parties have their pork in this bill. And I'm glad that there were Dems and Repubs that opposed it.

What's your point? Is the government suppose to stop spending money on our troops who are over in Iraq? You know that Bush wasn't gonna pull them out in 2006 but even then did you expect him to stop spending billions of dollars on them? If our troops are going to be sent to some foreign country for whatever reason, they should have the resources available to them to survive. If that means spending millions of dollars to keep them alive, so be it.

During the election, Obama claimed that he will pull out the troops and now he'll pull the troops and leave 50,000 of them there after the so-called pullout to clean up. That's not exactly a pull-out. http://www.clickondetroit.com/news/18796956/detail.html

How about the government focusing on getting us out of the current mess we are in? How about they stop shelling out millions of dollars to fulfil their own political agendas? I think much of this bill is wasteful.

It would just be hella easier if Obama pulled the troops outright instead of leaving some of them over there.

You don't need to be snarky about it. I agree though. The troops shouldn't be sent for just any reason but 8 years ago, THEY WERE. But since they were sent there for WHATEVER REASON I.E. BIG FAT LIE, the government better make damn sure they are well taken care of.