“As we look back in history, the Founding Fathers would be cringing to hear people talking about eliminating earmarks,” Reid said, noting that the Founders dictated in the Constitution that all spending should originate in Congress, not the executive branch.
Ed point out this link from Citizens Against Government Waste :
Thomas Jefferson made a similar prediction in a letter to James Madison dated March 6, 1796, challenging Madison’s proposition for improvements to roads used in a system of national mail delivery. Jefferson wrote:
Have you considered all the consequences of your proposition respecting post roads? I view it as a source of boundless patronage to the executive, jobbing to members of Congress & their friends, and a bottomless abyss of public money. You will begin by only appropriating the surplus of the post office revenues; but the other revenues will soon be called into their aid, and it will be a scene of eternal scramble among the members, who can get the most money wasted in their State; and they will always get most who are meanest.
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To the good people of the State of Nevada.
Harry Reid needs to be taken to the wood shed and have a rzor strop applied liberally(ain’t that funny) to his pompous backside. He is letting you down, not to mention selling you out.
I would like the opportunity to have him go through the Shellback initiation at sea before it got politically correct.
And yet its been SCARY HARRY REID and his DEMACROOK PARTY thats been ruining america with their irresponible action why dont scary harry keep his piehole closed@-)
“Reid:”As we look back in history, the Founding Fathers would be cringing to hear people talking about eliminating earmarks,â€
This is almost unbelievable! The FFs would be cringing at about 80% of what the Fed Gov’t is doing now, and they would be inconsolable in their outrage over what Harry Reid and the Congress is doing.
The founding fathers would be mounting a revolution to throw the bums out. Remember the founding fathers were:
Pro Gun
Pro big business
Pro free speech (No political correctness there)
Anti high taxes ( Remember a little thing called the Boston Tea party?)
Anti entangling foreign alliances (George Washington)
Pro Capital punishment
Exactly which liberal Democrat is any of those?
The FOUNDING FATHERS are spinning in their graves at what the demacrook party has done to america DEMACROOKS,TRAITORS TORIES:-w