Pork Politics

Everyone knows there's pork in every single government budget. And you might even think that all the OTHER representatives and senators are creating pork, just not YOUR representative and senators. Well, open your eyes, it's damn near all of them. And do you know HOW it gets there? Take a look at this memo.

The memo is sent out by the appropriates committee, just begging each member to send in their pork projects. Of particular note is this line from the memo:

Please be realistic regarding your project priority list. You should not have 50 project priorities. Remember, these lists will be held confidential by the committee.

So just ask for pork and the committee will put it in the spending bills, and we won't tell anyone how it got there. This way representatives can claim they didn't request anything, it "just showed up" and heck, who would refuse "free money?"

What a pile of crap. And it's tax time, so I get to muddle through the myriad miles of tax forms so I can fund this B.S. Crap like this really makes me want to be an anarchist. Then maybe when it's time to compromise, I can meet these morons in the middle -- with a small, republican, limited form of government.

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