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LIR: ty97, that is the archetypal "earmark" and illustrates exactly the criticisms against earmarks that folks were raising at the time.

Posted by ReluctantCynic (aka ReluctantCynic) Dec 1 '17, 17:55

It is clearly a measure intended to benefit only people in the Senator's home district in line with the Senator's political bent. It is a lot different than earmarks for bridges, hospitals, transportation infrastructure, research facilities, etc.

Personally, I find that earmark utterly noxious.

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It might be, more precisely, pork. -- nm - . Dec 1, 19:25
fwiw, I've never been opposed to all of them, for some of the things you list there. - b., merry and bright Dec 1, 17:58 4
- Totally agree with you, b. - ReluctantCynic Dec 1, 18:03
- I'm not against earmarks in theory, but yeah, there are good and bad earmarks -- nm - ty97 Dec 1, 17:59 2
  - But mostly I was just confused to see one, since I thought they said they don't do that anymore (I thought wrong!) -- nm* - ty97 Dec 1, 17:59 1
    - Well, like a lot of things, we don't do that anymore until it is politically expedient. -- nm - ReluctantCynic Dec 1, 18:04

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LIR: ty97, that is the archetypal "earmark" and illustrates exactly the criticisms against earmarks that folks were raising at the time.

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