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Sunday, 20 July 2008

Get rid of earmarks

Daily Herald

Kudos to Jason Chaffetz for taking a stand against earmarks.

The tenor of the article in the paper [July 11, "Is Chaffetz overconfident?"] is that Mr. Chaffetz' principled stand will hurt Utahns, and maybe we won't get our share of the pork dished up by Congress. But maybe if wise voters in other states elect representatives of similar courage, our country will stop spending itself into bankruptcy and start living within our means. Maybe we'll get representatives with the courage to tell us the truth: that if we want a wider road, we'll have to pay for a wider road, not have the appropriation for the project hidden in a federal highway bill that makes us pay for bridges in Pennsylvania and makes Pennsylvanians pay for roads in Utah. Yes, it may hurt to give up those earmarks, just as it hurts to give up any addiction at first.

Thanks, Mr. Chaffetz, for your courage and honesty. We need more Congressmen like you. Now let's retire our other earmarkers and get some honest blood in the nation's capital.

• William O. Davis,

Provo

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arc1

Jul 22 2008 06:17:10

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I agree. It is good we have someone like Jason Chaffetz that is against the pork and spend that we used to blame on the democrats. (Not that they typically aren't worse).

We are spending more than we have. We should be smarter with what money that the government takes from us.

One thing that will help the economy more than the checks being sent out, is to have less of our money going to Washington DC in the 1st place.

I am voting for Jason Chaffetz. He has good ideas, and has run his campaign in the black.

I have been amazed at the attitude of the Herald. If any newspaper should be backing Jason all the way, it should. We got the best option out of 3, now Jason is the best left running.

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hollyrcpm

Jul 22 2008 13:13:55

Me too, arc1. Get rid of earmarks! And who the heck (besides the Daily Herald, that is) buys the idea that money can only be "appropriated" by earmarks?! Give me a break. When you have a broken system, look for someone with the guts to stand up and say "No More", not someone who just sadly shakes their head and says "that's just the way it is". Appropriate funds in an open, transparent way - not by hiding them in the middle of 100,000 lines of code.

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