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Speak Up for March 21 - I support Rep. Steve Austria and others who refuse to use earmarks.
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6:42 PM Saturday, March 20, 2010
I have great respect and admiration for teachers, but I don’t believe they’re overpaid. The overworked and underpaid argument is old news. Between salary and benefits, teachers do just fine.
I support Rep. Steve Austria and others who refuse to use earmarks. Our government is spending us into outrageous debt and it has to stop somewhere. “We the people” need to quit expecting everything from our government. The 2010 budget contains $15.9 billion dollars worth of earmarks. Stop this spending.
I’m a “true-blue” Democrat and have not agreed with a lot of what Rep. Steve Austria has done, but I do support him in his “no earmark” stance. We have to start gnawing at the deficit somehow. The $1.6B worth of earmarks in the defense bill would have been a good start.
Reps. Steve Austria and Jim Jordan say the earmark process is broken. Sounds like they are playing the holier-than-thou card.
Rep Steve Austria and no earmarks: We need 434 other representatives in Congress who will do the same thing.
Rep. Steve Austria is shunning earmarks again this year, but isn’t counting it out for next year.
Earmarks have paid for worthwhile projects locally, but with the national debt so high, it’s time to eliminate them.
Don’t Ask Don’t Tell: I was in the Korean War and I wouldn’t have wanted a gay soldier in the foxhole with me.
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