Poor argumentation.
Better: In the US Senate it's a competition to see which Senator can steal more money from the other 49 States to bring home to his State. The sad fact is that they almost all win and bring home billions and billions of dollars. This money isn't spent to build up their States, it's spent to buy the Senator's re-election by having the money go to political supporters and crony capitalists. This is NOT economic development, it's corruption. Thad Cochran brags that he can bring more home to his pals in Mississippi than the other 99 Senators can take from Mississippi. He's wrong.
No State ever, ever, ever improved their economy by some politician bringing home the bacon.
McDanial, don't concede a thing. There is no "sacrifice" is stopping Federal spending. Ask people at your rallies, if anyone has benefited from the bacon brought home. No one has, no one's seen it and no one of your supporters is going to miss it.
Great point, but the Anmerican people THINK they need all that federal gravy and will continue to think so. MS people though like Cochran because they have "heard of" him.