Harvard study shows earmarks cost jobs

examiner ^ | 6/7/10 | editorial

[Nachum]

There are many reasons to oppose federal earmarks and pork barrel spending. They're wasteful and inefficient; they promote corruption and kickbacks; and, as was vividly demonstrated with the "Lousiana Purchase" and the "Cornhusker Kickback" during the Senate Obamacare debate, pork barrel spending can be used to persuade congressmen to support outrageously expensive legislation they would normally oppose. Further proof of the pernicious effect of earmarks comes from a new study by the Harvard Business School -- "Do Powerful Politicians Cause Corporate Downsizing?" -- that concludes federal pork kills jobs and stifles local economies.

[Buckeye McFrog]

Harvard study shows earmarks cost jobs.

More precisely, they take your job and move it to
Johnstown, Pennsylvania...