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Originally Posted by Highwayman  How’s our new Congress doing with our money? Today’s report from Citizens Against Government Waste |
Old congress did it, the congress before them did it, and the congresses to follow will do the same. Not just this one.
Why do we allow it to happen, well if your senator or house rep came up to you and said, i've just allocated 25 million dollars for cattlemen, and your a cattleman...wouldnt you vote for him again.
If your house rep or senator came and said I've gotten congress to get 30 million dollars for ice cream vendors and you're an ice cream vendor wouldnt you be happy.
It's a dumb process but all, no most(have to avoid the "allness fallacy") congressmen want to ensure a future vote for them so they use this pork barrel politics. It's horrible, but it works and they keep getting paid. Shady politics, but aren't they all, well most of them.