Reply #74: Why what? [View All]

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Why will Senator Byrd chair the Senate Appropriations Committee? Because he has seniority. He has paid his dues by supporting the Democratic party in Congress his whole life. That's the way it works. If you don't like that, then go serve just as he has for about 30 years while you wait in line and then you might be lucky enough to get a chance to chair the Senate Appropriations Committee if Democrats happen to be in the majority at that time. It looks like Senator Durbin has made some progress in that direction on behalf of your state. Let's check up on him in a couple of decades to see how he's doing in that regard.

The allocation process is not perfect but your view is simplistic and distorted. I agree that trying to take other folks' money is not noble but you have made no convincing argument that anything like that is going on. Repeating the same fallacious assumption over and over does nothing to make it credible.