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Originally Posted by charlie g
The plain fact is that Paul not putting the earmarks in the bill only hurts his constituents. The change has to come legislatively and it least he is talking the issue. The rules of the game must be changed... it's just going to take more than a few of these guys to get it done. But I have little faith in the collective American attention span. I am sure everyone feels they have done their part by voting and will forget how truly fucked up the system is currently.
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First his constituents elected him to cut out the pork. But if he doesn't give them THEIR pork then he's doing a bad job? That attitude will reduce pork by ZERO. As I said everyone thing their own pork isn't pork and it's everyone else's pork that needs to be cut. That attitude won't work.
And as far as him talking about it, well this isn't new they've been talking about reducing pork FOREVER.
He also talks about term limits. I wonder if he plans on running for re-election in 2016? I bet he does. And if he wins then I'll bet he runs again in 2022.