Bringing Home Bacon

July 17, 2006

17. July piece on Townhall.com, columnist Robert Novak wrote in a press release from Senator Joe Lieberman, who leads the 2.5 billion U.S. dollars in future transportation projects in Connecticut, the state is represented in Washington since 1988. According to Nowak, Senator Lieberman, an unexpected challenge from the Senate candidate Ned Lamont faces trying to emphasize the voters, as was successfully treated by the Federal GovernmentDollars of the taxpayers in the form of pork barrel spending projects for their constituents back home.

Unfortunately, Senator Lieberman has wasted the rule than the exception in terms of federal funds. Each year, 535 men and women from which to send the U.S. Congress for billions of dollars in taxes to the country of origin to enhance their political career continued their chances of remaining in office. Vet spending continues to grow with each entryBill and most Americans have no idea what to use their hard-earned tax dollars.

Citizens against Government Waste (CAGW), a nonprofit, nonpartisan organization that monitors public spending, published a book, the pig annual congress pork barrel projects that the various members of Congress slip of federal spending. 2006 edition, available at cagw.org special presents 375 projects worth over 3 billion U.S. dollars as "… the most serious and egregious examplesPork. "The book covers only a fraction of the approximately 10,000 wonder our business, senators and representatives in 11 different provisions of the 2006 financial year involved, cost taxpayers 29 billion U.S. dollars.

CAGW label the project as a pig, as "… provides the means for the specific purpose of bypassing the normal procedures for budget review." CAGW points out how these projects usually follow the main spending accounts just hours before the vote, Congressplanned, thus preventing a thorough review of time constraints.

The cost is included in the latest edition of pounds of pork, 13.5 million USD for the International Fund for Ireland, believe it or not the funds for the World Toilet Summit. Is $ 500,000 for the Arctic Winter Games in Alaska, easily slipped into the law of the expenditure for the Senate Defense Appropriations Defense Subcommittee Chairman Ted Stevens. According to the 2006 Arctic Winter Games WebsiteThe game was "… our young people the opportunity to showcase their talents in international and participate." As for our national defense, I do not mind.

There is also $ 500,000 for the Sparta Teapot Museum in North Carolina, $ 100,000 for the Richard Steele Boxing Club in Nevada, U.S. $ 500,000 at the Museum of Glass in Washington DC, 1 million U.S. dollars for Water-free Urinal Conservation Initiative and 5, 6 million U.S. dollars to the Gallo Center examines the impact ofDrugs and alcohol on the brain (the right of defense spending).

Pork barrel projects, the $ 30.55 per capita average nationally, are disproportionately in countries with a high-ranking members of the Appropriations Committees of Congress votes. Alaska, home state of the former chairman of the Budget Committee of the Senate, Ted Stevens, will receive $ 489.87 per capita in fiscal 2006, while in West Virginia, Robert Byrd, ranking member of the Senate Budget Committee, Director$ 131.58 at the head of his country.

Vet costs quickly out of hand, the members of both major parties are guilty of wanton waste and shameless self-promotion. Every citizen should be insulted by the action of our representatives, and every citizen should read the report in CAGW pork barrel spending. Special projects not only increase the political capital for members of Congress, must be reviewed, an enormous wasteFederal income tax, an end. Despite the fact that this nation is at war, and a valuable federal tax need $ for the efforts of Senators and Representatives to ignore what support is best for this country to waste limited income and applies only to preserve his power and prestige so that they "go home bacon.

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