From: Adam Flinton 

Tony Ingenoso wrote:
> Constituents like pork.  Pork is what gets pols elected.
>
> This isn't a "Bush" thing - look at the spending growth
curve for the past
> 50 years.  It far outpaces inflation and population increases.
>
> Until people are willing to elect pols who are willing to hurt them, its not
> going to change.  Whenever the public is given a chance to, in essence, vote
> itself largess from the public coffers - it will.
>
> Look at all the whining about the proposed mil base closings.  We're stuck
> with a lot of hardware and bases that have no actual military value simply
> because they provided "jobs" to some congressional district.
>
> In essence this is what "pork" is - defacto federal jobs programs.
>
> You're asking a junkie to kill the guy they get their smack from
>


Have you seen your 2 new fighter programs? They are (without a trace of
humor) called XX programs where XX is the number of states parts are built
in / sourced from & where the ideal is 50....

I think the raptor is a 48 program but I'm sure they're trying to source
something from hawaii & alaska...

Adam





>
> "Monte Davis"  wrote in message
> news:lcpb81tvt277fvauog9bvg9hsseltrot3a{at}4ax.com...
>
>>Another straw in the wind, from those notorious welfare-staters at
>>National Review Online:
>
>

--- BBBS/NT v4.01 Flag-5