Pork Now Top Voter Issue

The following is near the bottom of a new John Fund piece at Opinion Journal. Looks like something's working.

The latest Wall Street Journal/NBC poll offered respondents a menu of legislative action Congress could address before it goes home this year. Asked to choose which should be its top priority, a stunning 39% selected "prohibiting Members of Congress from directing federal funds to specific projects benefiting only certain constituents"--i.e., the pork-barrel spending at the heart of the Congressional earmark process. Immigration reform was in second place with 32%. It would be ironic if the big-spending strategy Tom DeLay thought was a key to shoring up incumbents and keeping GOP control of Congress winds up ending that control.

Comments

[Bill]

I wonder how people would feel if they understood that ALL LOCAL spending is pork because the federal government has no authority to spend for any local project. The feds are limited to ..."the debts, common Defence, and general Welfare of the United States;"... Not the debts, common Defence, and general Welfare of the States. Not the debts, common Defence, and general Welfare of the People. The States and People are different bodies-politic from the United States and have to pay their own way.

If the Feds stayed in their arena and wuit trying to buy votes, our taxes would run about 5%.

[DoorMart]

I wonder if this poll was to deflect from the real issue: Illegal Aliens.

Believe me no one is calling their House or Senate member asking to reduce pork. Now, the illegal alien issue...that is a different thing

Be wary of polls who interview only 1000 to get the opinion of 100's of millions of people.