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Pork Barrel spending down

  • 14-04-2010 8:06pm
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    BluePlanet
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    Interesting article from a nonpartisan group you probably won't find on FOX.
    The number and costs of congressional pork projects dropped this year, the Citizens Against Government Waste said in its "2010 Congressional Pig Book Summary," issued on Wednesday.

    The 9,129 projects in the report "represent a 10.2 percent decline from the 10,160 projects identified in fiscal year 2009, and the $16.5 billion in cost is a 15.5 percent decrease from the $19.6 billion in pork in fiscal year 2009," the group said.
    The nonpartisan group, which has been shining the light on how members of Congress use the earmarking process to steer money to projects in their districts, attributed the decrease in part to "reforms that were adopted when Democrats took over Congress in 2006."

    The "Pig Book" said Hawaii leads the nation in pork spending per capita, replacing Alaska.

    "Following the exit of Alaska porker extraordinaire Sen. Ted Stevens, R-Alaska, the state slipped to No. 4 in pork per capita. Hawaii led the nation with $251 per capita ($326 million). The runners up were North Dakota with $197 per capita ($127 million) and West Virginia with $146 per capita ($265 million)."
    Wyoming is lowest at $12.28 per capita ($6.8 million), followed by Minnesota, at $12.78 ($67 million), Arizona, $13.90 ($91 million), and Indiana, $14.19 ($91 million).
    The report presents a list of humorous awards for projects and people it calls "Oinkers" of 2010.
    For example, there's "The Thad the Impaler Award" to Sen. Thad Cochran, R-Mississippi, for $490 million in pork projects. The report said Cochran has the highest dollar amount of earmarks and the highest number of projects at 240.
    http://www.cnn.com/2010/POLITICS/04/14/earmarks.report/?hpt=Sbin

    So, pork barrel spending down this year, reforms introduced by Democrats.
    Interesting i think, especially against the backdrop of Tea Partyite claims.


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