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WHEREAS earmarks (also called “pork barrel”) represent a fundamentally dishonest aspect of government spending – money that is used by incumbents to buy votes, and WHEREAS, more than 11,000 pork projects were added to the just-completed federal budget, and WHEREAS, some 90% of earmarks aren’t even voted on, but are hidden in “conference committee reports,” and WHEREAS President Bush says that, in the future, he will refuse to spend such hidden earmarks, but that his new policy won’t affect the earmarks already approved, and WHEREAS President Bush’s policy will have almost no effect if he does not put it into effect until his term is ending, and WHEREAS, in the words of Senator Jim DeMint, "Congressmen are in jail today for taking bribes for earmarks, yet Congress and this president are allowing thousands of special interest projects this year for bike paths, museums, baseball parks, and golf charities while our economic growth is slowing," THEREFORE we the undersigned demand that the President put his new policy into effect immediately, to include earmarks already inserted into the 2008 budget. You need to Log in or Signup to Sign Petition.
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