Pork barrel spending...is it really? I think it's the currency of congress, their lifeblood. What else could..

explain why nothing substantial is ever done? You vote for my bill on this, I'll vote for your bill when it comes to the floor. Senator Stevens threatened if his pork didn't p, he would make sure nobody could get theirs ped either. It's what our elected officials bring to us each election cycle as trophies of how they are representing us. See what I have accomplished for our state they say, but they never say the yes votes they have given for others pork hidden away in some meaningless bill. Has our government become nothing but a big frat society at our expense?