If only there was a way to let the American people vote (electronically?) for how OUR money is spent (tax payers only, thank you).

Of course you would still need a president and congress willing to pass it………….never mind.

I searched for a definition of “earmarks” and found the following:

Earmarks are spending projects slipped into legislation after debate is over without attribution to any congressional member, without peer or public review, and usually specific to one locale, but paid for by taxpayers everywhere.

I can’t see how earmarks can even be constitutional. They are institutionalized theft. If John McCain can’t get the majority of his own party to support him in stopping earmarks – an issue where he is clearly in the right, how is he going to get the Senate to support him in anything he tries to do if he becomes president?

They consider it a Duty to spend yours, not theirs!

On March 14th, 2008 at 10:07 am, PBoilermaker said:
Like crack to crack whores. They need to be purged from Washington.

And make no mistake, they are all whores. Our two clowns from Pennsylvania, Casey the Useless and Arlen the Specter, need replaced too.

Fix Replace the Tax code – smoke

Sorry Soap, couldn’t resist making that “change” for ya.

It must be because I’m bloated from all that smoke.

Yep and I dream of a day where they do not tell me they are going to do something when I know they are just blowing smoke up our butts.

Fix the Tax code – smoke
Pork reform – smoke
Ethical Congress – black smoke
Hope/change – thick black smoke
Balanced budget – red smoke
Entitlement reform – dense smoke
…

On March 14th, 2008 at 10:40 am, On-my-soap-box said:
Now, how about a vote on a “fair tax”?

15-85 against I bet.

I don’t see 15 Senators voting for the Fair Tax. It gives too much power away to the people unclean multitudes.

All of the Senators are too well entrenched with the current 67,000+ pages of IRS tax code to give it up.

Of course Soap, I’d like nothing better than to see the Fair Tax become law, and for no other reason than the Politicians wouldn’t be able to change it without changing the Consttution too.

It’s still free to dream, ain’t it?

The Constitution Party sounds just fine, until you get to the isolationist plank in their platform. That just isn’t realistic in the truly global world we live in. Unlike the days of the Founding Fathers, the oceans can no longer protect us. Especially with such easy access to our nation over unprotected borders with Canada (with lax immigration policies) and Mexico (complicit in the illegal alien problem, and how much easier would it be for a terrorist of Middle Eastern original to blend in by learning to speak Spanish??).