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EarmarksThey're Congress' favorite pork-delivery system. Can they actually be reformed, or should they just be banned?
posted April 4th, 2007 by ScottBittle / Login to Email Thread / Print Thread /
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Re: Earmarks
earmarks (or "pork") are more complicated than one might expect. and there is SO much hypocracy in much of the posturing on the issue. Check out this great article in the Houston Chronicle, "Local GOP on the Hill push own spending wish lists" http://www.chron.com/disp/story.mpl/front/4935311.html this piece shows that the small step of assigning names to earmarks doesn't seem to be slowing down the pork stampede.
Re: Earmarks
Forbes did this totally stinging piece on earmarks "Bringing Home the Bacon" It's is a quick, but very engaging read. http://www.forbes.com/businessinthebeltway/2007/07/24/washington-taxes-c...
In it, Brian Wingfield details some of the bipartisant porking out going on in washington.