Issue Position: Don't Bring Home the Bacon and Reduce Spending

Issue Position

· When legislators campaign for reelection they brag about the money they took from the federal coffers and brought back to their district, at town hall meetings and television campaigns, as something to be proud of.

· First of all, how did the federal government get that money in the first place, only to dispense it back to the people who funded it and then distribute it to still others?

· If legislators want to take money from our treasury to bring to their district, they should propose legislation for that purpose; let it be considered on the merits, voted on and passed, but never as an earmark payback for supporting their party.

· We need legislators who'll tell their constituents, I won't bring back ten cents to our district. I'll oppose any other representative from bringing home the bacon to his district. If its bacon you want, vote for my opponent. If fact, I'll reduce what you're now getting. With my opponent, you'll keep getting the bacon, and every electorate in our country will keep getting the bacon until we figure out we're paying for it.

· Our treasury is not a bottomless pot; and there's no such thing as a money tree.

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