Earmarks are expenditures inserted into spending bills, often after they have been reviewed by lawmakers. They often benefit well the connected contributers to candidates' campaigns. Your taxes are diverted to the private interests that return a portion back to the lawmakers as campaign contributions. An indictment of business as usual in Washington.
Who is speaking out against this? Ron Paul and John McCain.
See part 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ahhHlSf-q7w
See ioUSAthemovie, visit the YouTube site
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=K0E-fwdyS-w
"Where Does the Money Go?" National Debt, Bill Moyers
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBazBcOD_4
Impeachment, the Constitution, and the President, Pt 1
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iMeCTbyzxi4
See more of Bill Moyers and Jeremy Scahill on Blackwater:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nqM4tKPDlR8
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yJUEULWEP9c
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lnVbulr2Pvw
John McCain on earmarks
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vwjOcW9O8nQ
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EfCdGHUhpCM
Free Lunch, Corp Welfare, Bill Moyers and David Cay Johnston
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LUNHwZVgLB8
Bill Moyers: "Where Does the Money Go?" National Debt
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ziBazBcOD_4
Visit the PBS archives to see the complete show and more of Bill Moyers.
http://www.pbs.org/moyers
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