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发帖数: 29846 | 1 By DICK MORRIS & EILEEN MCGANN
Published on DickMorris.com
on February 6, 2011
Unnoticed and unreported, victory has been won!
Earmarks are gone!
First the Senate and House Republicans agreed to give them up. Then
President Obama followed suit in his State of the Union. Senate Majority
Leader Harry Reid initially scoffed at his president's proposal, but he was
forced to back down by his colleagues and the Senate Democrats have now
adopted a two-year moratorium on earmarking.
So the FY 2012 and 2013 budgets will be earmark-free!
Thanks go to the Tea Party activists, Senator John McCain (R-Ariz), and some
stalwart Republicans for this achievement.
Several years ago, earmarks topped out at $60 billion a year. Last cycle,
they ate up $15 billion of spending. Now they will go to zero.
This reform puts an end to a singular form of corruption in which Senators
and Congressmen passed out earmarks with one hand and raked in campaign
contributions from lobbyists for the projects with the other. This form of
legalized bribery has accounted for between one-quarter and one-third of the
typical campaign war chest of Democratic Senators up for re-election in
2012. But no more! |
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