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	Name:	Yankee06
	Subject:	Cantor is a traitor?????
	Date:	8/24/2010 6:33:35 PM

-As an independent, I see flaws in both parties, ...and strengths in both parties.
-Earmarks, as I understand them, are useful if used well, and bad if used ill.
-For example, if earmark funds go to some local politician friend for an unnecessary bridge to nowhere, then I'm against it.
-However, if the bridge proposal includes a sound argument to prove that "if you build it, they will come," then I might be for it. The argument comes on whether federal funds should be used or local funds. Here in Alabama there are many counties that are just too poor to build such a bridge. But if teh bridge would draw more traffic and business and jobs and taxes and improve interstate traffic patterns, then I'd see the earmark funds as being used well. In this example, these funds help county, state, and interstate business.
-Now, a several million dollars earmark to study the dating habits of ardvarks is another issue!