Citizens Against Government Waste Highlights Wasteful Spending By U. S. Government
Citizens Against Government Waste have come out with the 2006 Pig Book, which gives details of this year's pork-barrel projects.
If you've been wondering how your hard-earned tax dollars are being spent, here are some highlights:
- $1,300,000 for berry research in Alaska
- $750,000 for multiflora rose control
- $4,200,00 for domestic shrimp farming
- $2,100,00 to enhance the competitiveness of U.S. wines
- $273,000 to implement "Garden Mosaics" (community gardens)
- $8,270,000 for breath alcohol testing equipment
- $1,000,000 for waterless urinals
- $100,327,000 in earmarks for Louisiana, most of which are not related to flood control or the repair of destroyed levees.
- $2,300.00 for the International Fertilizer Development Center
- $150,000 for the Actors Theater in Louisville, KY
- $100,000,000 for Even Start, a program that has failed to show educational gains
It goes on (and on, and on...)















I like actors theater in Louisville, Ky. It has harvested a cultural cornerstone and remains to be an economic center of the community. Great investment!
Posted by: Nathan W | Monday, September 22, 2008 at 07:59 PM