(Context = good. - promoted by Joe Bodell)
One person's earmark is another person's good idea.
Earmarks get a bad rep. They can be very useful. And I believe part of the problem is how we talk about them.
Who can forget Senator McCain's Top 10 Lists of "Pork barrel" projects via Twitter? Randomly posting pieces of information with no other facts makes for good entertainment, but it doesn't help us to understand perhaps why these earmarks exist. Referring to all appropriations spending as pork does a discredit to sometimes very sound projects. How to we remedy this? Congressman Walz seems to have a pretty good grasp on what to do.
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