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To: Wharf Rat who wrote (82751)	9/7/2008 5:37:35 PM
From: bluezuu	Read Replies (3) of 541739

Palin ripped over pork ------------------------------ Note to Palin: 'Earmark' means money Alaska needs COMPASS: Points of view from the community By CARL MARRS Published: January 10th, 2008 12:46 AM Last Modified: January 10th, 2008 01:02 AM I and other Alaskans have spent a lot of time trying to understand why the Palin administration would announce publicly that it was going to drastically cut the earmarks the state seeks from our congressional delegation. It makes no sense to us. By doing it so publicly, she may have jeopardized all other existing federal funding for Alaska. The Palin administration says earmarks make Alaska look bad. However, an earmark is nothing more than a word for special projects. And because our infrastructure needs eons to catch up with the rest of the nation just to bring us into some sort of parity, we need many special projects. Palin's cutback on earmark requests (or special projects) will make it even more difficult to make things happen in Washington, D.C., and it's already very difficult indeed. Most people in the Lower 48 would just as soon see this state locked up in one big park or wildlife preserve. The last thing we need to tell Congress is: "We don't want your money; we have enough." The governor and many among our news media are painting a bleak picture of earmarks, suggesting they are there to be abused. Nothing could be further from the truth. 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. It's not like Sens. Stevens and Murkowski and Congressman Young have invented earmarks, or the projects the funding was going to be used for. These projects were requested by the State of Alaska or the residents of Alaska. We elected our congressional delegation to go to Washington, D.C., to fight for funding for our state. It would seem that Palin's negative portrayal of the process has the potential to harm Alaska's stability and its future. adn.com

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