Earmarks = Evil?
Besides the fact that this story is valiantly exploitatious, it says a lot for the good graces the Internet has to offer. This story is basically about the ambiguous expenditure of citizen's cash out of citizen's pockets. Senators are spending upwards of millions of dollars every year to fund what they have covertly dubbed "Earmarks".
However low, decieving or down right inappropriate these Earmarks are, this story also shows us a big advantage the InterWeb has to offer. David Heath, Seattle Investigative Reporter, used the oppurtunity of the InterWeb in an ingenious fasion. As Heath tried to track down all of these mysterious funds, he eventually came to the conclusion that there are no open-access, or even clear documents of the total spending of Earmarks by the members of Congress. So he went ahead and made one. It states in the article that Heath has now created a, i'm not exactly sure if it's a website, however some form of documentation of this inexplicable spending that is now easily accessible to the public.
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