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Say goodbye to Ted Stevens.The biggest pork eater of all time is leaving office a beaten,convicted felon.The wheels of justice move slow,but sometimes they do move.Next on the hot seat hopefully will be Bushco.
Say goodbye to Ted Stevens.The biggest pork eater of all time is leaving office a beaten,convicted felon.The wheels of justice move slow,but sometimes they do move.Next on the hot seat hopefully will be Bushco.
Just in case you are not aware: Stevens hasn't been the "porkest" for awhile now. The king of pork is Murtha.
Also, the guy who just won the elections has a few skeletons in his closet, and to make matters worst, he signed the gun-grabbing Bloomberg's letter.
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While only two bills were enacted, the states of Alaska and Hawaii, which have been the top two states in pork per capita every year but one since 2000, were served more then their fair share of bacon by Senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). CAGW website
While only two bills were enacted, the states of Alaska and Hawaii, which have been the top two states in pork per capita every year but one since 2000, were served more then their fair share of bacon by Senators Ted Stevens (R-Alaska) and Daniel Inouye (D-Hawaii). CAGW website
Citizens Against Government Waste: (http://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2007 - broken link)
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) has done some good work in the larger studies that they spend most of their time on. Ferreting out some of the legal loopholes that the unscrupulous either could or do exploit is a worthwhile endeavor.
Folks should realize however that the so-called Pig Book is a fund-raising and publicity tool for them. They don't look into the details of any of the projects that are funded via earmarking, They realize that people will send them money and link to their website if they merely publish a list of earmarks. So that's what they do. There is no evaluation of the merits of any project, just of the means by which it was funded.
Most of the projects funded by earmarks are perfectly good and worthwhile ideas. While they may in many cases sound frivolously immoderate when taken out of context, they are the cream of a large crop. For every good and worthwhile idea that got funding in a world of scarce resources, there are more left lying on the commitee room floor that just couldn't make the grade. If people want to be outraged over earmarks, that's fine. But perhaps they should at least look into what the money is actually going for first...
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