Semper Fi Act of 2008
Blogs for Victory offers its 100% endorsement of this Act:
February 6th, 2008 - Washington, D.C. - Today, U.S. Senators Jim DeMint (R-South Carolina), Saxby Chambliss (R-Georgia), Tom Coburn, M.D. (R-Oklahoma), John Cornyn (R-Texas), James Inhofe (R-Oklahoma), and David Vitter (R-Louisiana) introduced the Semper Fi Act of 2008. The bill would rescind over $2 million in hidden earmarks for Berkeley, California in the 2008 Omnibus Appropriations bill, and transfer the funds to the Marine Corps. U.S. Congressman John Campbell (R-California) is introducing a companion bill in the House of Representatives.
Last week, the City Council of Berkeley voted to oust Marine Corps recruiters from their downtown office, saying the Marines were “uninvited and unwelcome intruders.” Berkeley officials also voted to give the radical protest group Code Pink space outside the recruitment office and urged them to “impede, passively or actively” the work of Marine Corps recruiters.
One earmark provides $243,000 in taxpayer dollars for the organization Chez Panisse to create gourmet organic school lunches in the Berkeley School District. Chez Panisse is dedicated to “environmental harmony” and their menu features “Comté cheese soufflé with mâche salad,” “Meyer lemon éclairs with huckleberry coulis,” and “Chicory salad with creamy anchovy vinaigrette and olive toast.”
Another earmark would spend $975,000 in taxpayer dollars for the University of California in Berkeley Matsui Center for Politics and Public Service, to create a new endowment and cataloging the papers of Congressman Robert Matsui. U.C. Berkeley currently already has a $3.5 billion endowment.
Actions have consequences - Berkerely hoped they could get some typically cheap leftwing moralism, but what they have done is insulted each and every man or woman who has ever worn the uniform of the United States Armed forces, especially those of the United States Marine Corps (which includes my 81 year old father, who joined the Marines at 17 in 1944 to defend the freedom of the American people - a freedom the people of Berkeley have degraded into the gutter). Money is, of course, is the prime desire of the left, as it allows the left to buy power. This money, it goes without saying, is desired without the requirement of earning it. Addicted to government largesse, the best way to punish them for their unpatriotic insults is to cut them off from the federal teat.
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