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[pete807]

Earmarks are the single most insanely corrupt government self enricher we citizens pay for. No wonder their salaries are meaningless when they are allowed stupid narrow focused bribery to get paid and re-elected, then become quickly the rich elite blinded by $$. Liars about what they said before they were elected. I won't vote for any incumbent till it ends.

Earmarks are “corrupt, inequitable and wasteful,” said Thomas Schatz, the president of Citizens Against Government Waste. He added that trading votes for personal spending priorities is “legalized bribery.” Is it 98% of Congress like Assange says? Just a couple examples from the link below include $50 million for an indoor rainforest in Iowa, $500,000 for a teapot museum in North Carolina and $223 million for the now infamous “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska.
Pork Barrel
https://www.pbs.org/newshour/politics/the-bipartisan-movement-to-bring-back-earmarks-in-congress
...rant over
-pete