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But then how will they pass earmarks?!

• ajross 14y ago
  Ragging on "earmarks" is dumb, you need to stop that. There are two branches of government involved in making a budget. Normally, the exective branch "writes a budget" and sends it to congress to vote on. Sometimes congress wants to make its own decision as to what gets funded. Why is the former "good" and the latter "bad"? Obviously what you really want to complain about is "bad" spending in general, for which both branch are guilty. But the problem with that is that there isn't that much "bad" spending. Cutting anyone hurts someone somewhere, and those people vote. So instead political wonks like to complain about process issues as a proxy, so they flip out about "earmarks" instead of actual policy. Yawn.