B.S. ALERT! Anybody hungry for $20 billion in pork spending?

Lets see - $74 million for peanut storage, $16 million for office remodeling of the old FDA building for the Capitol...

I'm afraid this represents politics as usual and I imagine there are plenty of "pork" requests from both sides of the isle on The Hill. Then add to this pork a war spending bill that many of us see as perpetuating Shrub's misguided troop escalation and what do we have?

$124 BILLION!

There is lots to NOT be happy with here, and concerns regarding advancing the immoral war agenda have been well detailed in other threads. Yet of the swine spending in particular, anybody know a good link where we can find the most objective overview of pork spending requests?

I'd like to hold both DEMS and rethugs to the light as we look at pork spending requests reminiscent of the famous Bridge To Nowhere on Alaska's Gravina Island.

:banghead:


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Congress loads up $20 billion in pork

Examiner.com
3/14/07

WASHINGTON - Congress has loaded up President Bush's request for "emergency" spending on the Iraq war with more than $20 billion in "pork" for members' districts.

Money for peanut storage in Georgia, spinach growers in California, menhaden in the Atlantic Ocean and even more office space for the lawmakers themselves is included in what has ballooned into a $124 billion war bill.

"This emergency supplemental bill has more ornaments hanging over our many branches of government than the White House Christmas tree," Rep. Jerry Lewis, R-Calif., said.

Originally, Bush asked for $105 billion in emergency funding. Democratic leaders say they want to grant the request to continue funding the war despite their desire to end it.

more:

http://www.examiner.com/a-619204~Congress_loads_up__20_billion_in_pork.html