For some communities (and legislators), pork is like heroin. There are a million bridges to nowhere and libraries named after senators and community basketball courts that you and I paid for with our hard-earned dollars, and the congress-critters can’t hand it out fast enough. And the (cough-cough) “Messiah” wants to hand out even more to every corner of the globe. Ayn Rand’s futuristic world looks more and more plausible.
No, they’re not addicted to heroin, as Governor Palin said, they are addicted to “OPM - Other People’s Money”