: From: Travis Subject: Cagle Newsletter: Loving Earmarks Date: Thursday, March 12, 2009,
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As I watched Sen. John McCain stand up and go on one of his rants about earmarks, I wanted to shout, "Sit down, bus driver!" Look, I like Sen. McCain, and to be honest, I agree with him 100 percent that Congress shouldn't be spending billions of dollars on pet projects, but I'm also realistic; no one truly cares. Really, no one cares. Sure, there are a few folks in Congress who rail against earmarks. And there are outside pressure groups that are trying to rally the American people to voice their outrage about the process, but I firmly believe that the folks at home love to send their members of Congress to bring the bacon back home. Yeah, bacon. That comes from a pig. It's pork, i.e., pork-barrel spending. That spending comes from earmarks. That, folks, is the real deal. Someone in Texas right now is crying and complaining about the earmarks put in place by a congressman from Pennsylvania, but that someone doesn't care a lick about the money that he is getting. 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