Scott Stewart, chapter 5, question

In chapter 8 Wheelan talks about "earmarks." This is where a congressman will support eachother's bills, but only if ere is somthing that helps their district. The author gave the example of a "bridge to nowhere" in Alaska. The government allocated money towards a bridge that would never be built. The author also talked about how most politicians thought that these were evil unless it benefited the politician. For example, most politician were against it unless it was supportig their nearby children's hospital.
I beleive that these earmarks are a nessesary evil. Nobody would put funding anywhere in politics unless it directly benefited themselves. Because of this in order to get funding for these nessesary things we sometimes must fund unnessesary things.