EARMARKS ON THE HEAD OF THE FRANKENSTEIN MONSTER

By Investigating Journalist Jon Rappoport
December 22, 2010
NewsWithViews.com

There have been a variety of terms for it: pork; graft; favors; riders; earmarks.

You've noticed that the massive federal-budget bill is loaded with earmarks—those money deals that legislators bring back home to their states to gain reelection.

Harry Reid boldly defended this practice by saying, This is what we do. This is why we're here. For Harry, earmarks are good and sacred.

There is a brewing battle in Congress about earmarks, about their attachment, like barnacles, to pieces of legislation.

“Let's see. The defense spending bill. Let's attach a piece about inspection of food processing factories, and then this other piece about building highways in Virginia, and this other piece about a ten-million-dollar memorial for Ted Kennedy...â€