Pork

May 17, 2006

Warning: The following content can induce vomiting.

What’s killing the American people? In one word it’s PORK. Not the three little pigs. It’s the pigs we’ve elected to office. Pork is known as frivolous government spending. Here’s what constitutes frivolous.

• Requested by only one chamber of Congress;
• Not specifically authorized;
• Not competitively awarded;
• Not requested by the President;
• Greatly exceeds the President’s budget request or the previous year’s funding;
• Not the subject of congressional hearings; or
• Serves only a local or special interest.

Here are some examples of Pork for 2006 (only): $13,500,000 for the International Fund for Ireland, which helped finance the World Toilet Summit; $6,435,000 for wood utilization research; $1,000,000 for the Waterfree Urinal Conservation Initiative; and $500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in Sparta, N.C. This years cost of pork is $3.4 billion resulting from 375 projects.

Complete list of 2006 pork projects

By passing pork-laden appropriations bills and by not vetoing a single spending bill, Congress and the President of the United States have respectively failed the American taxpayer. While the ramifications of these failures may not be completely visible today, they surely will be when future generations will be strangled with increasing debt.

May 17, 2006 | Filed Under Politics

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