I respect and appreciate your honesty. Unfortunately, there are 435 members of the House and 100 Senators and thousands of elected representatives on the state and local level who use our hard-earned tax dollars to fund local projects that they think are worthy or important, when in reality they are simply trying to bribe the voters with their own money, at best and/or thank campaign contibuters for their support, at worst. Either way, the cost to the American taxpayer is mega-billions and billions of dollars. IMHO, there is nothing conservative about forcing people to pay 30% or more of their hard-earned income to Congress so that the likes of Duncan Hunter can hand out our money to their friends. I know that pork has been a part of the American political scene since day one, and I know that little is likely to change except perhaps the rare corruption prosecution to keep the Congressional giveaway program from getting too out of hand, but I don't have to like it, and there is no way that I will ever support an unapologetic money-grabbing, spendthrift like Hunter no matter how much I may agree with many of his other positions.
“to their friends” in Duncan Hunter’s case means to defense contractors. Let me know if he has a Duncan Memorial Drive or a Hunter Botanical gardens named after him.
You can legitimately criticize him for going along with Bush’s prescription drugs plan or voting for the fat farm bill and such. But I will only give him respect for forcing the Pentagon to purchase more armaments then they (meaning the administration in power) request. He has consistently railed at the lack of military spending, not just to feed his friends contracts, but rather because he is a Hawk. Perhaps the most hawkish member serving.
He actually has a pretty decent record of fighting pork in his 26 years.