First steps on the road back to sanity.
What’s wrong with earmarks? An earmark is just a provision in a bill specifying exactly what the money in a bill is supposed to be spent on. Isn’t it Congress’ job to tell the President how the money it appropriates is going to be spent? Without earmarks, aren’t we just going to give Obama billions of dollars without telling him how to spend it? Isn’t that effectively giving him a blank check to spend the entire US budget in anyway he sees fit? It’s not the earmarking itself that is the problem, it’s the spending in the first place. So How will banning earmarks solve the problem?