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::::Not all earmarks are pork. Pork is spending that is a benefit '''only''' to a representative’s district. If a representative comes from a district where they make Kevlar vests and he/she earmarks millions to buy vests from that factory for the military, it is an earmark and is not pork (assuming the military needs those vests). --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 16:49, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
::::Not all earmarks are pork. Pork is spending that is a benefit '''only''' to a representative’s district. If a representative comes from a district where they make Kevlar vests and he/she earmarks millions to buy vests from that factory for the military, it is an earmark and is not pork (assuming the military needs those vests). --[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 16:49, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
:::::This goes beyond benefiting the district. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:11, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
:::::This goes beyond benefiting the district. [[User:RobS|RobS]] 17:11, 14 May 2007 (EDT)
::::::Then it isn’t pork.--[[User:Reginod|Reginod]] 17:33, 14 May 2007 (EDT)