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"One of the methods used by statists to destroy capitalism consists in establishing controls that tie a given industry hand and foot, making it unable to solve its problems, then declaring that freedom has failed and stronger controls are necessary." --Ayn Rand
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Yup, there's lots of pork on all sides of the fense. Like the Mid America Airport not far from where I live -- its an expansion of Scott AFB (Air Force Base). It was great for Scott AFB, but that's about all. It was originally supposed to suppliment Lanbert International Airport, some 25-30 miles from here, for cargo. But in 8 years not one cargo plain, other than those that belong to Scott. They even built a nice big passenger terminal and other buildings. No passengers since it opened.
One big thing in its favor -- President Bill Clinton landed there once
One big thing in its favor -- President Bill Clinton landed there once
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Oh Goodie - we are going to have a pork-off! i will get right on it.
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Imagine a world without hypotheticals....
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
You can have my book when you pry it from my cold, dead fingers.
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It seems that Senitor HRC was indeed the nation's top oink spender last year.
According to the Pig Book ("The Book Washington Does Not Want You to Read"), New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is our new grand national oinker among presidential contenders for most pork barrel spending. She inserted a whopping 281 individual spending projects into bills for the benefit of New York interests at the cost of taxpayers everywhere.
That totals $296.2 million.
According to the Pig Book ("The Book Washington Does Not Want You to Read"), New York Sen. Hillary Clinton is our new grand national oinker among presidential contenders for most pork barrel spending. She inserted a whopping 281 individual spending projects into bills for the benefit of New York interests at the cost of taxpayers everywhere.
That totals $296.2 million.
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Pork is good, war is bad!
drink her pretty
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war is good -- we spend lots of money that provide lots of jobs. Buy stuff, blow it up, then buy it again. When the war in Iraq ends, all soldiers will go home to no jobs. Oh yea -- we still have wars in Afganistan and up-and-coming Iran. So maybe they will get jobs making stuff to blow up in those two countries. And if Palin is elected she will start a war with Russia, and then we can spend several trillion more dollars blowing stuff up in that country.
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ANCHORAGE, Alaska (AP) -- Gov. Sarah Palin may eventually have said ''no thanks'' to a federally funded Bridge to Nowhere. But a bridge to her hometown of Wasilla, that's a different story. A $600 million bridge and highway project to link Alaska's largest city to Palin's town of 7,000 residents is moving full speed ahead, despite concerns about wasting federal money.
No one died when Clinton lied.
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"The Bridge To Nowhere" is only one of many.
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_123004.html
http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2008/0..._n_123004.html
and why is a bridge to Wassila a "waste of federal money" but a billion dollar road to connect some remote town in (say) Montana isn't?
Maybe because it's not a leftist politician voting for the budget?
Palin has a track record of reducing pork and corruption, Obama and Biden have only ever tried to increase it.
Maybe because it's not a leftist politician voting for the budget?
Palin has a track record of reducing pork and corruption, Obama and Biden have only ever tried to increase it.
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One man's(woman's) pork is another's sustenance.
It is, however, disingenuous to paint Palin as being anti-pork - even McCain said so.
It is, however, disingenuous to paint Palin as being anti-pork - even McCain said so.
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