Honestly, how can it be any other way? Randy's entire political career is but one big contradiction. He has been both against Medicare but for the part that pays doctors. He has been both against farm subsidies but for doling them out to farmers that need them. He has been both against TARP but loves to keep his campaign cash in banks propped up by the federal government. Now he claims that he'll fight for Kentucky's fair share of government dollars just don't call it pork. This is the perfectly sane tea bagger version of America. This is what the American people just voted to return back to power-- first rate liars.
What are earmarks if they are not money appropriated by the federal government? And as far as transparency, earmarks are some of the most transparent forms of congressional spending. Don't take my word for it. Take daddy Ron Paul's word for it:
Rep. Paul, who submitted just over 40 requests, typically works to decrease the size of the federal government and its involvement in state affairs. However, he thinks the earmark process is more transparent the regular budget process, according to the Times-Picayune. And since he believes Washington takes too much money from taxpayers, he feels it is "part of his job is to work hard in Washington, D.C., to get that money back to those constituents in any form that he can," according to his spokesperson.Earmarks are not the Satan right wing nut jobs make them out to be. They also only make up less than 1% of the total budget. Cutting them out would take a $1.3 trillion deficit and make it a $1.299 trillion deficit. But please don't tell the media all this. I would hate to ruin their fantasy coverage where they forever portray Rand Paul and his cohorts as fiscally sane and completely responsible deficit hawks.
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