Since they were supposedly done away with, has federal spending dropped by so much as a penny? The problem was never with earmarks, it was with out-of-control spending.
Did you read what Perry called earmarks?
“The gateway drug” to the out of control spending problem.
He didn’t say it was THE problem.
It’s a big problem, though...why? Because it hides spending in bills that are supposedly about something else and interferes with accountablity for it. It hooks the spender and the recipient of the earmark onto the federal government spigot...or I could’ve used a less nice word.
People say MJ isn’t so bad. But if it’s a gateway drug to other drugs, then it’s that old slipperly slope thing.
Perry often says things that others aren’t yet saying and it sounds strange to some ears.
He is way ahead of the game. If you would go to the mat to defend earmarks, you’re part of the problem not the solution.
Pretty good for a “dumb” guy.
Perry is a state power guy, as in the Constitution. If a community or a state want something, hey, go for it.
But for every community and state to depend on the Feds to fund stuff they want...
And to sneak it in...
Wrong.