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Politics : View from the Center and Left
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To: bluezuu who wrote (82828)9/7/2008 5:49:57 PM
From: Stan J. Czernel   of 541735
 
Earmarks have been used for decades by many other senators from many other states and will continue to be used in the future in some other form

I agree. They are politicians, after all, and they want to please their constituencies to get re-elected. Bringing home the bacon will always be a crowd pleas-er where it matters - in the state of the legislator who brought it home.

But there are good earmarks and bad earmarks. No one asks: "is this the best use to which we can put this money?" I say, either give the President a line-item veto, or legislate that any earmarks have an addendum that says "...or for any other purpose that the state of ------ deems fitting." This , at least, would now make local politicians accountable to their constituencies that the money not be used foolishly. It may not deminish the hunger for pork, but I bet you would see far fewer "bridges to nowhere".
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