Entries Tagged as 'Pork'
September 25th, 2008 · Comments Off
First let’s correctly define the players in the tragedy, something the Liberal media will not do. From Neal Boortz:
OK .. so we all know that a lot of really bad real estate loans were made. The political class would sure love for us to believe that the blame here rests squarely on “greedy” (try [...]
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Tags: Election · Government · Media · Money · Politics · Pork · Socialism · Taxes · The US
October 23rd, 2007 · 4 Comments
From USAToday:
The Senate voted Thursday to kill a $1 million grant for a museum on the site of the 1969 Woodstock concert, a rare rebuke of a legislative pet project and a blow to the presidential candidate who backed it, Sen. Hillary Rodham Clinton.
Clinton and her New York colleague, Sen. Charles Schumer, had the funding [...]
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Tags: Absurd · New York · Pork · The Left
July 25th, 2007 · Comments Off
Congressman Don Young, Republican, is the lone member of the House Of Representatives from Alaska.
He is also one of the biggest pigs in Washington, taking federal taxpayer money from across the country at a record rate and re-routing it to Alaska.
$223 million to build a bridge nearly as long as the Golden Gate and higher [...]
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Tags: Absurd · Pork · Taxes · The Right · The US
July 20th, 2007 · Comments Off
What’s a paltry one million dollars to a member of Congress?
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Tags: Absurd · Government · Pork · Taxes · The Left · The US
July 27th, 2006 · Comments Off
In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits.
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In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits.
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July 13th, 2006 · Comments Off
In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits.
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July 6th, 2006 · Comments Off
In American political slang, it is politics (including government money, jobs, or favors) dealing with funding at the Federal level of local projects with little or no national significance yielding rich patronage benefits.