Not too thrilled

President Obama promised America he would avoid all ear marks and improve the economy. He's only shooting for one now that he's a few months into the White House. A $410 Billion bill was passed in the name of helping America out of an economic crisis. However, this bill was chock full of a total 9,000 'pet projects' a euphemism for earmarks. Obama's bill is ridiculously hypocritical and there's not a lot he can do to redeem himself. Half of these bills aren't even needed for the economy, $200,000 dollars for tattoo removal because Representative Berman suggested it? And another $2 million for swine and odor management? What do we need those things for? Those are not going to immediately improve the economy and bring us out of a possible recession. In fasct they're almost never going to be actually needed. They were just put on the bill to get a vote to make it happen. It's not worth it. It's impossible to improve the economy if we're spending more and more of the tax payers dollars on little things to get different represenatives on board. Represenatives should want to fix the economy without getting their silly little ear marks in. Shouldn't they? Obama should have stuck to his guns and done what he said he was going to do. Then maybe this economic stimulus package would have gone over smoother.