[Gondring]

except for a few in GOP the rest of congress loves every nickle they spend every illegal thats comes here every job lost overseas, oh well you get the idea.

Exactly. The way the system is set up, each "representative" (small "r" to include Senators) is going to fight for the most pork (a perfect example is Sheets from WV). That's why it's essential to have a President with restraint.

[BigSkyFreeper]

Exactly. The way the system is set up, each "representative" (small "r" to include Senators) is going to fight for the most pork (a perfect example is Sheets from WV). That's why it's essential to have a President with restraint.

No, that's why it's essential to have the line item veto. You can talk about restraint until you're blue in the face, but you'll just be ridiculed for ignoring the root cause of such outrageous pork ideas such as "the bridge to nowhere" in Alaska proposed by Senator Ted Stevens.