By inserting the campaign finance provisions into the Omnibus Appropriations bill, they have created a new system of legalized bribery in which massive contributions to the parties can be used by very wealthy donors to buy influence with and results from federal officeholders.
Inserting the cuts in political financing into the financial update was an "appallingly dumb decision", says Roger Gibbins of the Canada West Foundation, an Alberta-based think-tank.
When a dollar bill is inserted (a clever take on financing for the arts), this industrial-looking construction of bicycle wheels and other metal parts becomes kinetic, responding with a cacophonous performance for 30 seconds.
The whole financing process is self-financing, which means all finances should be inserted in the selected project/projects at once, and no extra money will be financed thereafter.
And for nearly a decade, members — citing concerns about worsening drug abuse — inserted language into the city's budget bill that prohibited financing needle exchange programs.
After confirming a $2 million round of financing last week, they've just launched a partnership with 30Boxes that allows users to insert a calendar into a wiki.
They've raised a mere $1.5 million in financing and generate revenue by charging advertisers 5 cents per visitor sent to their page inserted occasionally into the path of stumblers.
Steve Ellis, a vice president for Taxpayers for Common Sense, a budget watchdog group in Washington, called the spending backdoor earmarking since several of the projects were previously financed through requests inserted into spending bills.
