Speaking of pork, the Democrats want to attach names to earmarks, will that embarrass the sponsors or...?

Question

will they be considered trophies to show the constituents back home. Will that help or hurt.

non, that is exactly what I mean, party does not matter when taxpayers money is being wasted. Let's do away with spending for one thing, included in a bill for something else.

Answer 1

it will help Americans have a better understanding, of who is actually supporting what being done with our money.

earmarks, are little appropriations of funds that lawmakers attach to bills that they know will pass. basically allowing them to frivolously spend tax dollars on anything they want, that may have nothing to do with the bill whatsoever.

in many cases, earmarks are the only way some bills get passed, because they act as bribes that congress pays each other to vote yes on a bill.

it will do good, because it will make it possible for Americans to see what congressmen are actually doing. for example, a congressman might support a bill that reorganizes welfare and saves the American tax payer a couple million on the welfare budget, but may earmark that same two million for an organization that supports gun control.
after they do this, they'll be cheering to the crowd and waving to the camera, how they reorganized welfare so people will think they made it possible for taxes to be dropped when actually they did nothing to that effect, and actually gave the money to someone who opposes what the majority of people would support.

this just makes the action of congress a little more visible, and a little more visibility gives the motivation necessary to earmark what their constituents want, not just pay back campaign funds.

anything that empowers the vote of the citizens of the USA, is a good idea to me.

Answer 2

Hadn't heard of this. But, if true, I'm all for it. Even if it's used, as you suggest, for promotion locally, I believe abuse could lead to national embarrassment if enough talking heads pick up on it. Let's get the scum (R and D) out of Washington! Only, not all at once or the whole government could collapse.

Answer 3

Yeah like giving friends and family Million$ to build E85 plants.

What a joke If Kansas was wall to wall corn it could not make enough ethanol to meet it's own needs.

Go big Red Go

Answer 4

I have trouble understanding why you are against responsibility in government...is your judgement so fixes in stone that you can't see a real attempt to bring ethical behavior into congress...it is an attempt to prevent unethical behavior...you are spouting Partisan bullcrap

Answer 5

I don't know...I think that if you are going sponsor anything that you would be ashamed of then why sponsor it?

It shouldn't matter....they all need to start standing up for what is right...maybe if their names were attched they would think twice about some of the stuff they do!!!

Answer 6

You mean people like this?

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