| The Ghost of RubangB said: Meh, let's not turn this into an Obama thread. If she has more experience than him, it means he's the only Washington outsider, and both tickets are bragging about experience and they're both bragging about being outsiders at the same time. Her experience is earmarking $27 million for th smallest town in Alaska. I'm sure Obama hasn't done that yet. And Biden's like the brokest man in the Senate. Blah blah blah.
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You have to take into consideration the different perspectives of different representatives within your government. On top of that, earmarks are not (necessarily) a bad thing ... they were designed so cities and states could get access to federal funding (primarily for larger projects like public transportation) ... the problem with earmarks is that appropriate checks and balances were never put into place which makes it difficult to seperate good earmarks from bad earmarks.
