Earmarks, pork, “black” funding, non-budgetary expenditures, off-budget directives, extraordinary expense projects … They’re all names for the same thing: Spending on pet projects without accountability. Money is like water. It WILL find its way to leak through any crack available. And Congress (including, or perhaps especially Republicans) don’t really want to stop the flow; they just want to change the name so it won’t be so politically apparent. Rand Paul has already shown that he is ready to grab whatever slop he can.
Earmarks, pork, “black” funding, non-budgetary expenditures, off-budget directives, extraordinary expense projects … They’re all names for the same thing: Spending on pet projects without accountability. Money is like water. It WILL find its way to leak through any crack available. And Congress (including, or perhaps especially Republicans) don’t really want to stop the flow; they just want to change the name so it won’t be so politically apparent. Rand Paul has already shown that he is ready to grab whatever slop he can.