Earmarks - Key to Corruption

What is the fastest growing category of spending? It is “earmarks”...over $64 Billion.

So what is an earmark? Let’s put into simple terms.

What is the fastest growing category of spending? It is “earmarks”...over $64 Billion.

So what is an earmark? Let’s put into simple terms.

Let’s say you have a take home pay of $3000.00 per month.
Your mortgage is $1500. Food for your family is $500. Your car payment and insurance is $500. You spend the balance of $500 on entertainment, clothes, etc.

Now your Mother-in Law (Senator) comes to you and tells you that you must spend $300 on her utility bills and $200 on a project for her art class. These are “earmarks”

These expenses were not in your budget and cause the same ciaos as earmarks do for the national budget. You are faced with cutting the amount you spend on things you need or you have to make more money.

In the example I used at least the money you give to your Mother-in-Law is at least going to pay for something tangible…her utilities. Much different than your Senators.

Take Senator Nelson from Nebraska. He earmarked millions for a company in Nebraska where his son has a major position. The company is allegedly doing military research for a new technology. The only problem is the military did not request the research nor does it believe it is a viable technology.

I’m sure the military would like to have these millions to spend on proven technology to protect or assist our troops.

Bottom line: Earmarks override the judgment of the heads of our agencies and puts the spending decisions in the hands of the politicians and their cronies. There are many similar earmarks by other Senators and Congressmen. Remember the "Bridge to Nowhere"?

Here are a few examples of actual earmarks. Remember there are over $64 Billion of earmarks in the budget.

$13.5 million for the International Fund for Ireland
$100,000 for Richard Steele Boxing Club (Harry Reid)
$50 million for an indoor rainforest in Iowa
$200,000 for a peanut festival in Alabama
$200 million for the “bridge to nowhere” in Alaska

These earmarks channel billions of dollars into worthless projects. They shortchange vitally important national priorities. The office of Naval research gets $2.37 billion, but $590 million goes to earmarks. That is approximately 25% of the budget goes for earmarks.

Now….what does earmarks have to do with stopping the Illegal Invasion?

The main reason our immigration laws are not enforced is that your representatives don’t give a damn about you except when they need your vote. Once they’re elected they’re off to the Corruption Feeding trough.

We covered several components of the Corruption Feeding Trough previously.
Family members pulling unearned salaries from campaign funds; Family members lobbying dear old Dad; and excessive family travel paid for by you.

But the biggest hunks of pork in the trough are the earmarks. This is where they get the major of their quasi-legal dollars. These perks allow them to go in to office poor (like our good friend Harry Reid) and make millions for their families, friends and themselves.

The point of this discussion, they don’t care about you, me or our nation because they're spending so much time capturing sources of money to line their pockets. You’re just an inconvenience they have to deal with every few years.

So if La Raza, Mencha, or one of the other racist open borders group has money up for grabs, guess who your dear Senator or Congressman is going to support? Amnesty is up for grabs to the highest bidder.

There is only one thing most politicians fear...being cut off from the corruption trough. How do you do this? Throw him out of office.

This means we need to bring attention to them by shining light on their corruption schemes. When we shine the light on them, they scurry like a bunch of cockroaches and may in fact do the right thing for fear of losing access to the corruption feeding trough.

How to Stop Earmarks!

1. Line Item Veto:
Let the President veto specific appropriations. This would go a long way to stopping earmark abuse....but a crooked President could still let them survive.

2. Impound Appropriations:
Give the President the power not to sign a check for earmarks that are nonsense. The president used to posses this power, it's time to return this power to him.