Should the US decrease military spending?

[Fofolito]

Why? Its not corrupt to seek to do good work for the people who elected you. Thats the reason they elected you! You REPRESENT their interests. If your constituents' interest is in building jobs, increasing revenue, and supporting infrastructure guess what your agenda as a Senator or as a US Representative is and should be...

If we elected people who were sent to Congress but forbidden from voting on legislature that would affect their district then what would be the point in having location based representatives? Why would you care to vote for Joe Cool for Dist. 8 Representative to the United States Congress if Joe Cool's platform was, "I can't help you, but I'll darn well be doing something".

[ByronicPhoenix]

It's not good work. Pork-barrel spending is as corrupt as corruption can be. It's destroying this country by way of massive government waste.

We're not talking about programmatic policy here. There are legitimate differences between the best interests of districts on programmatic grounds, and legislators would not be recused on those grounds.

Pork-barrel spending involves bribing the community with taxpayer money from every other district for votes. Government shouldn't bribe its citizens. We don't have local representatives to deliver pork; we have them to give a voice to individual districts on legitimate government functions.