Re: OT Survey, Which Party Do You Think Will Be Better For Machine Shops?

Jon Anderson wrote:
John R. Carroll wrote:

No, it isnt constitutional.

Ah, I thought it had gone through and stuck. Seemed to me a
ways into Bush's first term there was talk that he hadn't
used the line item veto like he'd promised.

I think every President wishes for the ability to selectively edit spending
legistlation.
Some have proposed legistlative action but our constitution is specific on
this and vitrually every legal scholar would tell you that until a
constitutional ammendment is passed, the President can either veto or sign a
bill. He can't tinker with it by taking the stuff he likes and tossing what
he doesn't. This makes good sense.


Well then, am I mistaken again, or didn't McCain talk about
using the line item veto recently in a speech?

He talks about using his veto in every appearance. What he says is that
he'll veto any bill with an earmark.
That's good campaign rhetoric but not practical, something he knows.
What he ought to just do is be honest. There really are times when an
earmark makes sense. Unfortunately, the process is seriously overused and
abused so we end up with Congresscritters using the appropriations process
to send money home by the boat load to take care of their States if they are
Senators or congressional districts if they are in the lower house.
The real problem isn't the amounts involved, which in the grand scale of the
budget process are trivial.
The problem is that, for instance, Sarah Palin and the lobbying firm she
hires as Mayor of Wallisa were able to get a ton of Federal money poured on
them without having to go through the public process. She engaged in the
same practice as Governor.
In fact, when she was campaigning for the Governors job she made a big deal
of the federal money she'd gotten appropriated as Mayor for Wallisa and
offered it as proof of her intentions to do the same as Governor.

This sort of thing ( earmarks ) corrupts the electoral process and that's
why it should be either severely curtailed or ended.
You have a hard time running against an opponent that promises to put money
in the voters pockets directly or by federally funding jobs or something
that's desired like a park or waterway. THAT is what McCain has consistently
fought against his entire career and you have to wonder how Palin, pork
barreler extraordinaire, and McCain ever got together except in the most
cynical way. They are polar opposites on the one issue John S. McCain has
built his career on.


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John R. Carroll
www.machiningsolution.com


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