I agree with Ron Paul. Excellent job explaining Earmarks
Bob
EARMARKS
Excerpts from the March 10th Congressional Record:
The gentleman from Texas (Mr. Paul) is recognized for 5 minutes.
Mr. Paul. I would like to address the subject of earmarks today. I think there’s a lot of misunderstanding here among the Members as to exactly what it means to vote against an earmark. It’s very popular today to condemn earmarks, and even hold up legislation because of this.
The truth is that if you removed all the earmarks from the budget, you would remove 1 percent of the budget. So there’s not a lot of savings. But, even if you voted against all the earmarks actually, you don’t even save the 1 percent because you don’t save any money.
If we want to get things under control, it won’t be because we vote against an earmark and make a big deal of attacking earmarks because it doesn’t address the subject. In reality, what we need are more earmarks.
So, instead of too many earmarks, we don’t have enough earmarks. Transparency is the only way we can get to the bottom of this. And if you make everything earmarked, it would be much better.
