If the conditions were right there could be great acceptance. Often it is only when they pose an economic or political threat that it turns really ugly. ↗
Our task was doing maintenance and repairs to keep the station in a good state for the return of the shuttle flights and resumption of major ISS construction. ↗
The earmark favor factory needs to be boarded up and demolished, not turned over to new management that may or may not have a better eye for earmarks with 'merit.' ↗