The Nor'easter: America is Better Without Earmarks

It is easy to be negative about the government. Name your issue: too much spending, not enough spending in the right places, mismanagement, corrupt officials, overreaching its boundaries, not doing the right things, and so on.

SOTU SPEECH: President Barack Obama is greeted following his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, at the Capitol. Jim Watson/Getty Images

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