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This is true. But I am an optimist and I still hold out hope for a President that actually gives a damn about our country instead of him/herself.
I believe that if you give elected officials an inch the they will try to take a mile(63,360 inches). If both sides were actually serious about cutting pork spending the president would veto every bill that had pork in it and tell them to write another bill without any pork, they would pass a one subject at a time bill, they would make the person who put in the pork get right out front of everyone on C-span and explain why the **** why this bill needs that pork spending. Elected officials have had decades to do something on the matter of pork spending and unrelated spending.There is no reason to believe that a line item veto would be any different. The only thing giving the president a line item veto power would do is basically neuter all opposition. Its like handing a can full of gas and handful of matches to a arsonist and expecting him to put out the fire.
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