05-24-2008, 01:05 AM
[quote southernman]I cant see how earmarks can always be said to be a bad thing, i mean these men are representatives of a district, a fairly small group, and part of their job is to get federal money to stimulate their economy, enhance a state program, or ihey even improve a fishery hopefully . . .
but if we all were stockholders in a corp, and they squandered 8 bil
, or theyre was lousy accounting on 8 bil, somebody would be asking questions about it, besides a free press
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SM I will admit some earmarks are used for good purposes, I still don't like them though. If the earmarks were as good as thought there would be a bill introduced to support them rather than tying them to a bill that has absolutely nothing to do with the earmark.
I like your shareholder analogy! I feel like we as the tax payers are the share holders and congress should have to pass each policy that has money spent on it individually.
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but if we all were stockholders in a corp, and they squandered 8 bil
, or theyre was lousy accounting on 8 bil, somebody would be asking questions about it, besides a free press
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SM I will admit some earmarks are used for good purposes, I still don't like them though. If the earmarks were as good as thought there would be a bill introduced to support them rather than tying them to a bill that has absolutely nothing to do with the earmark.
I like your shareholder analogy! I feel like we as the tax payers are the share holders and congress should have to pass each policy that has money spent on it individually.
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