PIG Roast. Putting Pork Barrel spending in it's place

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PIG Roast. Putting Pork Barrel spending in it's place

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Despite a laggard economy and talk by lawmakers about the need for fiscal restraint, pork-barrel spending achieved new highs — or lows — in appropriations bills passed this year.
Every year, pork barrel legislation finds its way into the federal budget, most perniciously as earmarks. Adopted without debate, they pervert democracy. It's how congressional incumbents ensure their own reelection, and it's everything bad about closed government. Our representative should stop it.
During election years, politicians make speeches about how concerned they are with wasteful spending, the deficit, and the fiscal woes of the nation. But as soon as the television cameras are turned off, they brag about the pork that they are bringing home to their state or district. This hypocrisy has helped to create a $521 billion deficit and a $7.1 trillion national debt.
Now You can help get the politicians and the PORK they support into the lime light. This is a discussion for PORK, how to stop it, how to let other taxpayers know about it. And how to take action against it.
We want pork out of politics and back on the farm where it belongs. All Comments welcome as long as they are PORK Related.

Helpful www. links.
Citizens against government waste
cagw.org

The motley fool
fool.com

The Hill
hillnews.com

Better Government .org
bettergov.org

Taxpayers for Common sense.
taxpayer.net

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26	Congress Serves Up $17.2 Billion in Pork From Shrimp to Beer, 'Pig Book'	Tadsamillionaire	-	4/2/2008
25	Here piggie, piggie! Billions in fed trough Millions earmarked for La Raza radi	Tadsamillionaire	-	1/11/2008
24	What percentage of the national spending is pork? About 1 percent. <b> an	Tadsamillionaire	-	12/29/2007
23	Republicans Blast 'Misguided' Omnibus Spending Bill By Susan Jones CNSNe	Tadsamillionaire	-	12/20/2007
22	The Senate's Ethics Sleight of Hand By Robert D. Novak Monday, September 10	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/12/2007
21	Dianne Feinstein is a Big Fat Pig: Congressional Pork-barrel Spending/ Earmarks	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/12/2007
20	THEY GOTTA BE KIDDING!	Lazarus_Long	-	9/11/2007
19	Hollywood Pork: $4 Billion for a park in Beverly Hills It was business as usual	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/8/2007
18	State may see $325M in federal money From millions to fix the leaking Center Hi	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/2/2007
17	Pork groaners from Flake Rep. Jeff Flake (R-Ariz.) routinely derides congressio	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/2/2007
16	Oink! Oink! orlandosentinel.com Our position: Democrats haven't done enoug	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/2/2007
15	Pelosi on PORK The San Francisco Democrat raked in almost $100 million in earmar	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/2/2007
14	The pork twins: Hodes, Shea-Porter love earmarks Carol Shea-Porter and Paul Hod	Tadsamillionaire	-	9/2/2007
13	there is over $11 billion in unrequested, unauthorized, run-of-the-mill pork pro	Tadsamillionaire	-	1/9/2005
12	Pork Barrel Spending The federal government is giving a whole new meaning to th	Tadsamillionaire	-	1/9/2005
11	townhall.com	Joe Btfsplk	-	1/2/2005
10	A new study from the Center for Immigration Studies is one of the first to estim	Tadsamillionaire	-	12/1/2004
9	$4K raise? Small potatoes compared to the Chief Executive's perquisites. Che	Tadsamillionaire	-	11/25/2004
8	The problem with that is we ALL are paying..	sandintoes	-	11/25/2004
7	NIH PHARMS OUT PROFITS Taxpayers invest tens of billions of dollars in drug res	Tadsamillionaire	-	11/24/2004
6	Congressional Pay Raise Scam On September 14, the House of Representatives got	Tadsamillionaire	-	11/24/2004
5	Just so long as the Blue States pay for it it is find with me!!!!	Cisco	-	11/24/2004
4	Hi, Tim! Good luck with your thread. Just remember, "One man's 'por	LindyBill	-	11/23/2004
3	That is what the problem seems to be, everyone tries to tack their own pork onto	sandintoes	-	11/23/2004
2	House and Senate negotiators today passed what was intended to be a legislative	Tadsamillionaire	-	11/23/2004

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