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[Kuros]

[Ya-ta Boy]

CNN recently mentioned that the number of pieces of pork in the pork barrel has risen astronomically the last 6 years. I don't remember the exact numbers...something like 600 a year before '94 and now 8,000 a year. I guess the extra 2,000 are the last attempt to soak up the gravy before the gravy train stops. (I hope it stops.)

[Teufelswacht]

I made the mistake of actually reading the list. I don't know whether to laugh or cry or both. Some of my favorites:

$1,000,000 Mormon Cricket & Grasshopper Activities in Utah
(Pesky mormons are into everything!)

$1,000,000 Clinton School of Public Service, Little Rock, Arkansas
(It must be nice to have a wife who's a senator)

$365,156 Potato Breeding, Aberdeen, Idaho
(The horny little spuds.)

$387,976 Manure Management Research, Ames, Iowa
(How to manage sh*t!?)

$300,000 Medusahead Research, Burns, Oregon
(WTF?)

$300,000 Guam Memorial Hospital, Tamuning, Guam
(Only 300K for a hospital - potatoes and sh*t get more!?)

$150,000 Shellfish Genetics, Oregon State University
(Oh,brother)

$628,843 Grape Genetics, Geneva, New York
(Equals 2 hospital appropriations and change - not funny at all)

$750,000 Repaving the Battleship New Jersey Access Road (Clinton Street), New Jersey
(There's that senator's name again. Must be a looong road.)

$232,000 National Wild Turkey Federation
(The whiskey or the bird - my bet is whiskey with bird hunting trips thrown in for senators/representatives)

$75,000 ��Building Foundations�� Project, Women�s Center of Beaver County, Pennsylvania
(No comment I just found the name and place funny)

$250,000 Montana World Trade Center
(The "hub" of world trade - oops wrong country)

$591,000 Montana Sheep Institute
(No comment baaaaaaa)

$6,371,000 Wood Utilization Research in 10 States
(6 million dollars!!!!!!! WTF!!!??? How wood is used? Ohhhh, so that's where that extra CIA funding comes from - the good ole' "Wood Utilization Research" wink, wink)

When I think of how the money represented on that list could be spent on health care, education.........

[bucheon bum]

clinton street is probably named after dewitt clinton, not bill. It is a common street name in NY, and perhaps NJ as well (former governor of NY I believe).

[Teufelswacht]

[kotakji]

Not to be an apologist but these projects are what people on the hill refer to as "Decimal Dust" in that even cumulatively they still reside in the decimal section of a xxx billion dollar budget. Six million dollars simply isn't that much money for any kind of research. Now I will agree that these grants should probably be coming through the NIH or NSF because they are the most meritorious rather then from a congressmen to pad a vote count.
Oh and unless im mistaken Medusaheads are a microorganism.

[Ya-ta Boy]

[Kuros]

Here's the pork list for 2008.

[Milwaukiedave]

[Pluto]

Meanwhile, Rep. Ray LaHood (R-IL) has been named Presisident Obama's Transportation Secretary. Nice to see he chooses a Republican porker that would even make Ted Stevens blush. Mr. LaHood is someone who knows nothing of transportation, but has been the foremost export in directing pork barrel spending back to his district.