When you’re inside the Beltway too long, you lose touch with reality and never get it back.
Exactly.
When you defend pork for YOUR district, you are at the same time defending pork for EVERY district.
It is inescapable.
That’s how we got here.
Earmarks, bridges to nowhere and the rest.
Rick Perry understood that earmarks aren’t the giant budget busters that entitlements and big government, period, are.
But as Santorum defended earmarks under the Washington system as it was then, and still is, Perry was calling earmarks the gateway drug to deficits and debt.
Like the MJ to the Cocaine and Heroin.
It addicts you to big government and the massive spending of other people’s money.
So you’re not in a good position to downsize government and return power to the states.
You’ve been gobbled up by the system.