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Originally Posted by Azure
And like I pointed out when someone brought that up in the election thread, the 'federal' government, in the forms of earmarks, should NOT be paying for stuff like that.
I don't give a crap if its a MRI machine. There are proper channels to fund that kind of stuff. Probably so that it does get regulated, and monitored properly, so that politicians can't bleed the country dry year after year.
Obama is simply ignoring that.
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Without earmarks the money is handed to the executive branch to piss away. The money will be spent either way. Earmarks allow transparency while throwing the constituents a bone.
The amount of the spending bill is the problem, not the earmarks.