Another Omnibus Spending Bill Loaded with Pork

The Heritage Foundation ^ | December 2, 2003 | Brian M. Riedl

[sadimgnik]

sounds possible :-)

Actually, my guess would be a program for minority kids at the Fender Guitar factory .. but lemme check:

Yup! I win :-)

No mention of minority status .. but the pics at http://www.fendermuseum.com/kidsrockfreeedupro.html are a multicultural mix, and they teach (amongst other things) mariachi music.

And there's a great swag of Fender Guitars on the walls :-)

Sadim

[sadimgnik]

sounds possible :-)

Actually, my guess would be a program for minority kids at the Fender Guitar factory .. but lemme check:

Yup! I win :-)

No mention of minority status .. but the pics at http://www.fendermuseum.com/kidsrockfreeedupro.html are a multicultural mix, and they teach (amongst other things) mariachi music.

And there's a great swag of Fender Guitars on the walls :-)

Sadim

[GeronL]

Guessing is pretty fun

[GeronL]

$150,000 Renovation off Farmers market, Dallas, Texas

OK, this one is local. Why are federal funds needed to 'renovate' an empty spot that people sell produce in out of their pick-ups??

$200,000 Merit School of Music’s after school program

Why does a music school need federal dollars?, let the parents pay!

$200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota

There ain't no traffic in North Dakota!!

$250,000 Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

Now they have a jobs program for Monica Lewinsky... had to see that one coming

[Kudsman]

$400 billion over 10 years for Medicare and they still spend all this pork. There is a need for a common sense Party that is dedicated to devolving the central government. Cut out the middle man and keep the money locally to begin with. As long as people keep calling for more government, it naturally will oblige. Disturbing.

Time for "NO PORK" candidate litmus test. But how does someone that like that win an election absent large turnout of self sufficient responsible voters? We have to change the image of what is good representation. It should be bad (a sin) to covet (tax) other people's goods for ones pet projects. The recipient community sees it as a virtue that their representative has taken other citizen's money, skimmed for their own sustenance, and then redistributed it according to their own corrupted ideals.

[Calpernia]

That is why, in reference to what we were talking about, we take each community, set them up with the Trusts and have the funds stay where they belong. Then, no need for pork, no political favors.

Solves lots of problems.