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...)

Comments

[Nathan W]

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!