Want some Pork ?????.. Send this to some repubs ...see how they like it !

[RedEarth]

I saw this posted at Kos and thought some duers would enjoy it as well....it's from the right wing site "Club for Growth". I plan on posting this(as well the the "Money for Nothing article) on several conservative sites...I'm going to get em fired up!!

Pork Projects by Year
From Chris Edwards’ new book, Downsizing the Federal Government (which cited CAGW):

Number of Pork Projects in Federal Spending Bills

2005 - 13,997
2004 - 10,656
2003 - 9,362
2002 - 8,341
2001 - 6,333
2000 - 4,326
1999 - 2,838
1998 - 2100
1997 - 1,596
1996 - 958
1995 - 1439

Using 2005 numbers, by voting down the “Bridges” amendment, the Senate let the country know that it was unwilling to defund 2 out of 13,997 pork projects today. That’s 0.0142887762 percent.

http://www.clubforgrowth.org/blog/archives/026385.php



Also, in "wryter2000" post on DU(link below) there's a link to The American Conservative's article "Money for Nothing"...it's a scathing attack on the billions that have been wasted in Iraq on bribes and lining contractors pockets.

below is some of the article

Money for Nothing

Billions of dollars have disappeared, gone to bribe Iraqis and line contractors’ pockets.


by Philip Giraldi


The United States invaded Iraq with a high-minded mission: destroy dangerous weapons, bring democracy, and trigger a wave of reform across the Middle East. None of these have happened.

When the final page is written on America’s catastrophic imperial venture, one word will dominate the explanation of U.S. failure—corruption. Large-scale and pervasive corruption meant that available resources could not be used to stabilize and secure Iraq in the early days of the Coalition Provisional Authority (CPA), when it was still possible to do so. Continuing corruption meant that the reconstruction of infrastructure never got underway, giving the Iraqi people little incentive to co-operate with the occupation. Ongoing corruption in arms procurement and defense spending means that Baghdad will never control a viable army while the Shi’ite and Kurdish militias will grow stronger and produce a divided Iraq in which constitutional guarantees will be irrelevant.

The American-dominated Coalition Provisional Authority could well prove to be the most corrupt administration in history, almost certainly surpassing the widespread fraud of the much-maligned UN Oil for Food Program. At least $20 billion that belonged to the Iraqi people has been wasted, together with hundreds of millions of U.S. taxpayer dollars. Exactly how many billions of additional dollars were squandered, stolen, given away, or simply lost will never be known because the deliberate decision by the CPA not to meter oil exports means that no one will ever know how much revenue was generated during 2003 and 2004.

Some of the corruption grew out of the misguided neoconservative agenda for Iraq, which meant that a serious reconstruction effort came second to doling out the spoils to the war’s most fervent supporters. The CPA brought in scores of bright, young true believers who were nearly universally unqualified. Many were recruited through the Heritage Foundation website, where they had posted their résumés. They were paid six-figure salaries out of Iraqi funds, and most served in 90-day rotations before returning home with their war stories. One such volunteer was Simone Ledeen, daughter of leading neoconservative Michael Ledeen. Unable to communicate in Arabic and with no relevant experience or appropriate educational training, she nevertheless became a senior advisor for northern Iraq at the Ministry of Finance in Baghdad. Another was former White House Press Secretary Ari Fleischer’s older brother Michael who, though utterly unqualified, was named director of private-sector development for all of Iraq.

wryter2000's post with link to the article....

http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104x5123880

[texpatriot2004]

1. Pork is on the rise and has been since 2000 nm

[sui generis]

3. but that's a 5X increase from 1999 levels

Shouldn't some of that "pork" have been better served buying bullet proof vests for our soldiers in Iraq and paying medical bills of the ones who were injured fighting for Islamic freedoms? (You which ones, the democratic right to force women to wear a burka, to round up and torture and execute gays, christians, and foreign aid workers, etc.)

[sui generis]

2. I think this should be on every dem midterm candidates

speaking points.

The administration that promised a reduction in the size of government and government spending more than DOUBLED spending on pork the first year of the 2000 republican administration.

Go figure - the hen house was flung wide open, small wonder there's only feathers left.

[unpossibles]

4. good point

I thought these guys were supposed to be against this kinda thing :eyes:

[Cactus44]

5. Nope. You're thinking of Conservatives. These guys are defianately NOT

those.

Not even close.