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To: Tulsa Ramjet
I'm interested in the shameful $124 billion in pork. Anybody have a list and associated culprits?

I hope their districts are proud of them.

69 posted on 03/23/2007 10:07:17 AM PDT by mewzilla (Property must be secured or liberty cannot exist. John Adams)
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To: mewzilla

$2.10 rise in the minimum wage
$1.8 billion in crop disaster assistance
$1.9 million for a Lewis and Clark Bicentennial Celebration
$1.5 million for a virtual reality spray paint simulator system
$1 million for a biathlon trail upgrade at Fort Richardson, Alaska
$150 million for aircraft and facilities to patrol the U.S. northern border
$10 million to remove sediment from Rio Grande
500 million in emergency funding to suppress anticipated wildfires
$1.3 billion in new funding for the Army Corps of Engineers’ Katrina efforts
$515 million for state and local grant programs for port and rail security and "emergency management performance grants."
and others, a total of $21 billion in pork


84 posted on 03/23/2007 10:18:55 AM PDT by gpapa (Boost FR Traffic! Make FR your home page!)
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