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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:08 AM Original message |
Ahem, why do we need to have "earmarks" in our budget anyway? |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:14 AM Response to Original message |
1. One person's "earmarks" are another's vital infrastructure, education, technological spending. |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:23 AM Response to Reply #1 |
3. I understand that argument; however in today's NYT Maureen Dowd listed some of these |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:29 AM Response to Reply #3 |
6. both of the ones you cite I understand immediately |
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baldguy (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:47 AM Response to Reply #3 |
11. McCain - and Dowd - is engaging in the same old bullshit tactics the GOP always does. |
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napi21 (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:22 AM Response to Original message |
2. Earmarks are a faster way to get things done that going through the |
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CTyankee (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:26 AM Response to Reply #2 |
5. Well, read the article, where some of the earmarks are described and tell me what you think. |
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jwirr (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 12:22 PM Response to Reply #5 |
12. If you have ever lived next to a pig farm you would have no doubt |
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DeepBlueC (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:25 AM Response to Original message |
4. They are state representatives, after all |
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Vilis Veritas (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:32 AM Response to Original message |
7. Earmarks are payoffs. |
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rufus dog (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:41 AM Response to Original message |
8. hard to say without doing research |
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ieoeja (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:42 AM Response to Original message |
9. Alternative? |
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TayTay (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 11:47 AM Response to Original message |
10. I think the pig odor one is well founded |
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kiranon (1000+ posts) Send PM | Profile | Ignore | Wed Mar-04-09 12:38 PM Response to Original message |
13. What - the Republicans want earmarks spent in other countries instead of ours? |
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