Nice read Twinkie....
I think banning earmarks are an important step in cleaning up this mess.
As I understand it.....
They are of course used to augment various legislation providing special funding or permissions to lawmakers pet projects..securing their vote on a new draft even if they dont agree with it?....
Is it also the method by which “favors” are accounted..over time? Like an official record of favors done...like a casino chip...to be used to buy other favors at a later time?
As such “since they cant remember accurately exactly when or how they sold out on this issue or that”...these earmarks are very important to the culture of corruption in our gov.?
Anyone please correct me if Im wrong...or define this interpretation further...Im interested in this.
Thanks
They play so many convoluted games up there that no normal person could understand it. (They think of normal people as unsophisticated and unwashed.)
you pretty much nailed it...the money isnt as much of an issue as the ‘payback’ [though when the checking account is empty, every dollar counts]...that and wholesale selling out o the countrys economy by billions, for a couple hundred grand for a community center to buy votes back home...