Thursday, August 5, 2010

Veto the line item veto.

Pork, pork barrel spending, hardmarks, softmarks, earmarks. They keep changing the name but it is all the same thing. Politicians inflating the budget by adding unnecessary crap to needed bills. There have been a couple of attempts to give the president line item veto, but what good would that do? If congress passed a bill that really was needed and the people wanted it, but the majority of those that voted for it was of the other party, the president could line item veto the good parts, and the oppositions pork while leaving his own party's pork intact. Not a good idea at all.

What I say we need is a concise bill into law that requires every line on any new bill must be directly related to and reference the 1st line of the bill or the line directly preceding it. Sure this would mean there would have to be a lot more bills going through congress, but they would all be of manageable size and the politicians might actual read a few of them. Does anyone think any of the Senators or Representatives actually read the over 2000 pages of the current health care bill before voting on it. Or even the 451 pages of the bail out bill. I seriously doubt it.

Somehow the pork has got to stop.

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