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Amount Pork Project Recipient

$725,000 Please Touch Museum, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$200,000 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum, Cleveland, Ohio

$1,800,000 2003 Women’s World Cup Tournament

$6,000,000 Police Athletic League

$250,000 Call Me Mister program, Clemson University

$500,000 New England Amer-I-Can Program

$150,000 Rock School, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$16,000 National Distance Running Hall of Fame, Utica, New York

$225,000 Hawaii statehood celebration

$325,000 Construction of a swimming pool in Salinas, California

$100,000 History competition during National History Day in Iowa

$175,000 Therapeutic Horse man ship center, Hoffman Homes for Youth, Gettysburg, Pennsylvania

$315,000 Formosan Subterranean Termite research

$100,000 Public service recognition week

$50,000 Father Maloney’s Boy’s Haven, Louisville, Kentucky

$75,000 Vintage Radio Programs and Jazz Museum, East Stroudsburg University

$100,000 Kids Rock Free educational program, Fender Museum of the Arts Foundation, Corona, California

$100,000 Renovation of the historic Coca-Cola building in Macon, Georgia

$100,000 Construction of an intergenerational daycare center in San Fernando Valley, California

$372,000 B&O Railroad Museum emergency restoration, Baltimore, Maryland

$75,000 Thelonious Monk Institute of Jazz, Washington, DC

$225,000 Construction of Blue-Gray Civil War Theme Park, Kentucky

$75,000 North Pole Transit System JARC Program, Alaska

$250,000 Feasibility study of establishing Suffolk (Virginia) Workforce Development Center

$350,000 Construction for a folk cultural center in Pinellas County, Florida

$400,000 Speed Art Museum, Louisville, Kentucky

$90,000 Olive fruitfly research

$150,000 Traffic light, Briarcliff Manor Union Free School District, New York

$100,000 People for People, Inc., Philadelphia, Pennsylvania

$100,000 Amphitheater construction, North Star Productions, Inc., Bracken County, Kentucky

$2,000,000 First Tee program

$150,000 Regional Youth Baseball Complex Lancaster, California

$100,000 John Singelton Mosby Museum Foundation in Warrenton, Virginia

$180,000 Seafood waste research, Fairbanks, Alaska

$400,000 Walla Walla Public Schools, Walla Walla, Washington

$900,000 Kincaid Park Trail Connection, Alaska

$20,000 Southern Star Development Corporation, Louisville, Kentucky

$85,000 Comprehensive Transportation Plan for Lewisburg, West Virginia

$100,000 Norman Hall project, University of Florida

$225,000 Museum of Aviation Foundation Inc, Warner Robins, Georgia

$250,000 Lou Frey Institute of Politics, University of Central Florida

$270,000 Sustainable olive production

$5,000,000 Kennedy Center Potomac River Pedestrian and Bike Path

$100,000 National Civil War Museum, Harrisburg, Pennsylvania

$200,000 Cedar glades research

$250,000 Theater construction, Studio for the Arts, Pocahontas, Arkansas

$2,000,000 Intermodal Transload Facility, Quincy, Washington

$110,000 Construction of a dental clinic in Bassfield, Mississippi

$220,000 New Mexico Retail Association, Albuquerque, New Mexico

$400,000 Davenport Music History Museum, Davenport, Iowa

$3,000,000 US 12 Widening, Wallula Junction to Walla Walla, Washington

$25,000 Alex Haley House Museum, Henning, Tennessee

$225,000 Rialto Square Theater, Joliet, Illinois

$5,000,000 Project SOCRATES

$90,000 Rabbit Run Community Arts Association, Madison, Ohio

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

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

$200,000 Advanced Traffic Analysis Center, North Dakota

$250,000 Nevada Test Site Oral History Project

$400,000 National Center for American Revolution, Wayne, Pennsylvania

$1,000,000 Hal Rogers Parkway, Kentucky

$1,000,000 Ship Creek Improvements, Alaska

$2,000,000 I-SAFE America

$50,000 National Canal Museum, Easton, Pennsylvania

$100,000 Mystic Seaport, the Museum of America and the Sea

$200,000 Renovation of First National Bank Building, Greenfield, Massachusetts

$250,000 Martha’s Village and Kitchen, Indio, California

$270,000 Potato storage

$1,000,000 Transylvania Community Hospital, Brevard, North Carolina

$6,000,000 Treasure Island Bridge

$80,000 Hot Springs Bike Trail, Arkansas

$90,000 Karnal bunt research, Manhattan, Kansas

$175,000 Wichita Art Museum, Wichita, Kansas

$210,000 O. Winston Link Museum, Roanoke, Virginia

$250,000 James S. Taylor Memorial Home, Louisville, Kentucky

$250,000 Museum of Broadcast Communications, Chicago, Illinois

$500,000 Traffic Signal Replacement Program, New Rochelle, New York

$2,000,000 Parents Anonymous

$100,000 "Servicing our Youth"

$275,000 Refurbishment of the Coach George E. Ford Center, Powder Springs, Georgia

$150,000 Piper’s Opera House Programs, Inc., Virginia City, Nevada

$270,000 U.S. Vegetable Lab

$1,250,000 US-2, Dover Bridge, Bonner County, Idaho

$25,000 Capitol Area Boy Scouts

$113,000 Healing Place, Louisville, Kentucky

$500,000 Jim Thorpe Bridge Renovation Project, Pennsylvania

$600,000 Web Wise Kids

$800,000 Mammoth Lakes Bus Purchase, California

$100,000 Renovate the Jamestown (Ohio) Opera House

$400,000 Ed Roberts Campus transit center, California

$750,000 The Doe Fund’s Ready, Willing & Able program

$160,000 Grapevine Bus Purchase, Texas

$500,000 Round Rock Higher Education Center, Southwest Texas State University

$1,400,000 Translational Genomics Research Institute, Phoenix, Arizona

$25,000 Transylvania County, North Carolina, Sheriff’s Citizens Observer Patrol and Education Team

$200,000 Chaldean Community Culture Center, West Bloomfield, Michigan

$300,000 Milwaukee Summer Stars

$450,000 Johnny Appleseed Heritage Center, Inc., Ashland County, Ohio

$750,000 Intelligent Transportation Systems, Wichita Transit Authority

$1,500,000 Operation Streetsweeper

$125,000 Planning for new route over Cape Fear River, North Carolina

$300,000 Omnitrans—Paratransit Vehicles, California

$500,000 Bike path, St. Petersburg, Florida

$1,000,000 WestStart Vehicular Flywheel Project, Washington

$15,000 Pines of Peace, Inc., Ontario, New York

$75,000 U.S. Dream Academy, Inc., Columbia, Maryland

$200,000 Oneont Bus Replacement, New York

$450,000 Trout Genome Mapping

$500,000 LOVE Social Services, Fairbanks, Alaska

$750,000 Broken Bow rail spur, Oklahoma

$2,000,000 Tools for Tolerance program, California

$150,000 National Restaurant Association Educational Foundation

$1,000,000 DelTrac Statewide Integration, Delaware

The republican first conservative second crowd will come out in droves and try to somehow justify this.

Good lord, did we somehow leave the Cowgirl Hall of Fame in Fort Worth out this year??

Not a bad total for the pork barrel

$ 68,341,000.00

Foot note from a 2103 history book:

George Bush (the son)is remembered for his leading role in starting the "socialist spending orgy" as it came to be known. The years 2000 - 2008 turned the Republican party from the party of fiscal responsibility and limited government into a second Socialist party. The ensuing competition to see who could spend more to buy the voters caused the USA to lose its grip on democracy when in 2014 control of the USA was turned over to the UN.

After years of protracted talks the UN finally agreed to write off 80% of the USA international debt and stop interest from accruing.The current citizens are expected to pay off the UN directed international debt repayment in only 15 more years with the special 20% income tax on top of the 60% regular tax rate. While today USA is the punch line to jokes, it does produce some coal and food crops, unbelievably at one time it was a technological leader of the world.

The following is the sum total of congressional spending authority (sans some allowances created by subsequent amendments). The opening paragraph is expanded upon in the succeeding clauses. Hence the term,"general welfare" refers to what follows in Section 8, not to the "Please Touch Museum" in Philly, the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland, or to any other misappropriation of the public's money conceived by a corrupt Congress.

U.S. CONSTITUTION

Article I

Section 8. The Congress shall have power to lay and collect taxes, duties, imposts and excises, to pay the debts and provide for the common defense and general welfare of the United States; but all duties, imposts and excises shall be uniform throughout the United States;

To borrow money on the credit of the United States;

To regulate commerce with foreign nations, and among the several states, and with the Indian tribes;

To establish a uniform rule of naturalization, and uniform laws on the subject of bankruptcies throughout the United States;

To coin money, regulate the value thereof, and of foreign coin, and fix the standard of weights and measures;

To provide for the punishment of counterfeiting the securities and current coin of the United States;

To establish post offices and post roads;

To promote the progress of science and useful arts, by securing for limited times to authors and inventors the exclusive right to their respective writings and discoveries;

To constitute tribunals inferior to the Supreme Court;

To define and punish piracies and felonies committed on the high seas, and offenses against the law of nations;

To declare war, grant letters of marque and reprisal, and make rules concerning captures on land and water;

To raise and support armies, but no appropriation of money to that use shall be for a longer term than two years;

To provide and maintain a navy;

To make rules for the government and regulation of the land and naval forces;

To provide for calling forth the militia to execute the laws of the union, suppress insurrections and repel invasions;

To provide for organizing, arming, and disciplining, the militia, and for governing such part of them as may be employed in the service of the United States, reserving to the states respectively, the appointment of the officers, and the authority of training the militia according to the discipline prescribed by Congress;

To exercise exclusive legislation in all cases whatsoever, over such District (not exceeding ten miles square) as may, by cession of particular states, and the acceptance of Congress, become the seat of the government of the United States, and to exercise like authority over all places purchased by the consent of the legislature of the state in which the same shall be, for the erection of forts, magazines, arsenals, dockyards, and other needful buildings;--And

To make all laws which shall be necessary and proper for carrying into execution the foregoing powers, and all other powers vested by this Constitution in the government of the United States, or in any department or officer thereof.

$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.