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Liberal Democrat's Last Supper: What's For Supper? Pork Of Course!
Source: Foxnews. Editor's note: The democrats did not learn any lesson from the November 2010 elections. The new Omnious Bill is laden with well over $8 Billion dollars in earmark pork projects, including another $1 Billion of funding for ObamaCare. There are 1000's of pork projects hidden deep in the 2000 page spending bill. Pork is historically used by most politicians, on both sides of the asle, to buy votes and beef up their campaign funds from those back home that benefit from these pork funded projects. It would seem that our representatives are, again, not listening to the will of the people, and doing what they do best, spend taxpaper's monies like drunken sailors. And lets not forget to place blame where credit is due, Obama, Pelosi and Reid. Just take a look at what ol' Reid has to say about his pork earmarks
Reid: Earmarks are 'what we're supposed to do'
Source: Washington Times
Human Events: Reid’s omnibus has 6,714 earmarks, which total $8.3 billion. Earmarks, also known as pork projects, are specific spending projects for members’ home states. Sen. Tom Coburn (R-Okla.) created a working database of the earmarks in the omnibus. The pork projects include:
* Virus-free Wine Grape
* Solar Parking Canopies and Plug-in Electric Stations Demonstration
* Monitoring of aquatic invasive species in the Columbia River Basin
* Solar Panels for the Municipal Library
* Technology to Combat Asian Long-Horned Beetles in New York forests
* Salmon hatchery and harvest reform
* Boulder Bikes to Business Project
Source: Human Events -- Sen. John McCain tweeted the top 10 earmarks in the spending bill, including $247,000 for virus free wine grapes in Washington State, $413,000 for peanut research in Alabama, $235,000 for noxious weed management in Nevada and $400,000 for solar parking canopies and plug-in electric stations in Kansas. McCain expressed disbelief about the projects. "Are we tone deaf? Are we stricken with amnesia?" he said, adding that voters made it clear in last month's midterm elections that they're tired of business as usual in Washington.
2010 Pig Book Summary
The 2010 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects culled from the complete Pig Book. (.pdf)
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The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2010 Pig Book identified 9,129 projects at a cost of $16.5 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2010. A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition. Complete Pork Database: Search all 9,129 projects by keyword, member, state, party or appropriations bill. Features: Oinker Awards | State Rankings | Historical Trends | Video | All About Pork The Congressional Pig Book is CAGW's annual compilation of the pork-barrel projects in the federal budget. The 2009 Pig Book identified 10,160 projects at a cost of $19.6 billion in the 12 Appropriations Acts for fiscal 2009. Complete Pork Database: Search all 10,160 projects by keyword, member, state, party or appropriations bill. Tell Congress: Sign the Earmark Reform Pledge!
The 2009 Congressional Pig Book Summary gives a snapshot of each appropriations bill and details the juiciest projects culled from the complete Pig Book. (.pdf)
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A "pork" project is a line-item in an appropriations bill that designates tax dollars for a specific purpose in circumvention of established budgetary procedures. To qualify as pork, a project must meet one of seven criteria that were developed in 1991 by CAGW and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition.
SOURCE: Citizen's Against Government Waste
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