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---------- Forwarded message ----------From: barry levine <levinebar@gmail.com>Date: Sat, Mar 15, 2008 at 2:24 PMSubject: Spare the Pork but Dish some CandorTo: letters@nytimes.com
To the Editor: Tallying the dollar value of earmarks vastly underestimates their impact. If a senator is persuaded to vote for a bad bill because his/her constituents will enjoy a little pork, that bill can cost us a thousand times more than the earmark itself. Worse yet, we get a bad bill, and a senator who is not answering to his/her constituents in the bargain. There is much that needs to be fixed in our current system of government. Earmarks are not the worst of our problems, but neither are they immaterial.Barry Levine1142 Brown Ave Lafayette, CA 94549
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