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Pork is just a fact of life in Congress and is a rather negligible amount of spending. Refusing to govern because bills have pork/riders is negligent. He should
by joonix 14y ago
Pork is just a fact of life in Congress and is a rather negligible amount of spending. Refusing to govern because bills have pork/riders is negligent. He should resign.
- Afforess 14y agoThat you think pork and hidden riders are acceptable is highly disturbing. Corruption should never be the norm. "Be careful when you fight the monsters, lest you become one" -Nietzsche
- aaronbrethorst 14y agoOne man's pork is another man's job.
- harshreality 14y agoJobs created by pork are disturbingly similar to public sector jobs, even when they're nominally private sector jobs enabled by government grants/contracts. Create a section in a government agency to deal with some known problem, hire people directly into the government for that. Same effect, but you can't hide behind the false veneer of creating private sector jobs. It also becomes much more obvious that if you want to sustain those jobs in the long term you have to perpetually fund those salaries.
- illuminate 14y ago"Jobs created by pork are disturbingly similar to public sector jobs" Which makes it all the funnier when "anti-gov't" politicians load up their bills with private-sector giveaways.
- joonix 14y agoPork isn't corruption. It's not illegal. It's a part of the democratic process. It is in the bill and it's voted on. It sounds like your issue is with democracy itself, not with corruption.