them. While providing a glimpse into the past and the corrupting nature of the  earmark favor factory and pork barrel politics that politicians in both parties are  seeking to ..... Jurassic Pork. 5 pet projects in a Constitutional blanket is a bridge  too far. In fact, in commenting on federal funds going to local projects, none other  than ...
Jan 24, 2008 ... We -- we really have across the country a housing crisis, a mortgage crisis, that  seems to have spilled out into the entire economy, and -- and the effect of this, ....  But if we're going to spend $150 billion, I'd like to suggest that maybe we add two  lanes of highway from Bangor all the way to Miami on I-95.
Nov 23, 2009 ... PALIN: I do, Charlie, and on January 20, when John McCain and I are sworn in, if  we are so privileged to be elected to serve this country, we'll be ready. I'm ready.  GIBSON: When McCain asked you to take the number two spot on the ticket, for a  moment, did you think no? PALIN: I did not. I thought yes right ...
Dec 17, 2010 ... Congresswoman Anna Eshoo has declared dead an $8 million request for  Hangar One, which means the icon's massive steel skeleton may be left bare ...  Some of the people are right about the poor system we have developed with its  earmarks and pork barrel spending, favoritism towards the rich and ...
Mar 24, 2009 ... The Washington Post has a great graphic which helps put President Obama's  budget deficits in context of President Bush's. What's driving Obama's ..... then  while they are wanting to cut ss out ,maybe u need to ask them if they are going  to give us back what we paid in. Chase says: July 16, 2012 at 1:34 pm.
We spent approximately $20-billion of that money on pork barrel, earmark projects. Maybe if we had done it right, maybe some of that money would have gone to inspect those bridges and other bridges across the country.