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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.
The Nor'easter: America is Better Without Earmarks
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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SOTU SPEECH: President Barack Obama is greeted following his State of the Union address on Jan. 25, at the Capitol.  (Jim Watson/Getty Images )
Evan Mantyk
Evan Mantyk
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Evan Mantyk is an English teacher in New York and President of the Society of Classical Poets.
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