Mirror, Mirror on the Wall - Who is the Biggest Hog of All?

Apparently Ms Bubba Clinton wasn't satisfied just trying to loot the White House when they filled their carpet bags and moved to New York! Now she's trying to empty the American Taxpayer's pockets and stuff over TWO BILLION TAX DOLLARS into corn cribs around her adopted state. This from the Hill:

Clinton: $2.3B in earmarks
By Manu Raju and Kevin Bogardus
04/28/08

Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton (D-N.Y.) has requested nearly $2.3 billion in federal earmarks for 2009, almost three times the largest amount received by a single senator this year.
The Democratic presidential candidate’s staggering request comes at a time when Congress remains engaged in a heated debate over spending federal dollars on parochial projects.
It also has gained traction on the campaign trail. Presumptive GOP nominee Sen. John McCain (Ariz.), a longtime foe of earmarks, has called for eliminating what he dubs “wasteful Washington spending.” Democratic front-runner Sen. Barack Obama (Ill.) has spurned earmarks, seeking no funds for pet projects in the upcoming fiscal year.
Yet Clinton is continuing to request billions for earmarks, most of which will go to her home state.
The money is needed for homeland security, emergency response and health projects throughout New York, according to documents provided by her office.
The total amount Clinton requested greatly surpasses the $837 million secured last year by Sen. Thad Cochran of Mississippi, the ranking Republican on the Appropriations Committee who took home the largest dollar amount of earmarks in the current fiscal year’s spending bills. In those bills, Clinton secured $342 million in earmarks.
Clinton’s huge earmark requests have some speculating that the former first lady is preparing for a soft landing should she lose the Democratic primary to Obama and refocus her energy on winning a third Senate term.
“There’s a decent chance that she is going to remain the senator from New York, and she needs to do what she can to stay the senator from New York.

As 'Dirty Harry' used to say - "You got to ask yourself -- Are we better off letting her purloin $2.3B and go back to New York or let her become Pres and grab for the whole damn treasury?" By the way, for those of you who have already forgotten that earlier class 'Billion 101' - here's what it looks like; $2,300,000,000!!!

If you told your better half to go spend $1000 per day and come back after she/he spent $2.3B, she/he wouldn't be back for 2,300,000 days or or more than six thousand years!!!