Individual programs that benefit specific constituencies are sacrificed for the common good..
Instead of facing up to this scarcity, politicians promote tax cuts and income redistribution policies to benefit favored constituencies.
They lobby for more schools in neighborhoods that need them or for programs to benefit certain constituencies, from immigrants in Jackson Heights, Queens, to poor families in East New York, Brooklyn, or middle-class families in Greenwich Village.
They favor "cutting programs that benefited Democratic constituencies while preserving programs that benefited Republican constituencies and avoiding any serious reform of defense spending or middle-class entitlement programs".
Their tax legislation would also directly benefit a constituency usually omitted from GOP talking points: members of Congress themselves.
Similarly, if trilateral cooperation can produce concrete, indispensable benefits for constituencies in Korea, more people and interest groups will stand to lose if a downturn in Korea-Japan relations puts an end to those benefits.
We have come to accept this situation for a variety of reasons: we are starstruck, we fall for the family brand appeal without realizing it, we assume the relative is as strong as the original and that their connections will benefit their constituency, the force of an entire family political apparatus is too strong to withstand, we are too lazy to properly research other candidates.
That led to a position in 1986 with the state, managing highway and rail programs that benefit the same constituencies.
CW would benefit all the constituencies a network deals with, Mr. Moonves said, from local stations to advertisers - a list that he made a point of saying included the "shareholders in the CBS Corporation".
For Democrats, relying on much of the annual surpluses to pay down the national debt is a popular way to win support for spending on particular programs that benefit their prime constituencies.
