Something that I've been wondering for a *while* now:

Something that I've been wondering for a while now:

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Sep. 26th, 2008 at 9:22 PM

What the fuck does "pork barrel spending" mean (other than that John McCain is so old, he uses terms like "pork barrel spending")?

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ratphooey

Sep. 27th, 2008 02:01 am (UTC)

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pork_barrel

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hopita

Sep. 27th, 2008 02:32 am (UTC)

Hmmm. OK. Well, maybe John McCain would sound like less of a fogey if he said "programs that only a few benefit from, but that everyone pays for."

And doesn't that happen all of the time anyway? I mean, I've never gone to the Grand Canyon (for example), but I'm pretty OK with my tax dollars paying for the park rangers and whatnot there.

And isn't the war in Iraq a prime example of that? I'm in no way going to benefit from funneling an oil pipeline through Iraq, but my tax dollars are funding this fucked up war anyway, right?

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lllove

Sep. 27th, 2008 12:16 pm (UTC)

everyone refers to this as pork barrel. pork is/are the things written into a bill to appease lobbyists, not related to the rest of the continuity of the bill.

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lllove

Sep. 27th, 2008 12:17 pm (UTC)

for example, the bill to legalize medical marijuana in michigan also includes that 1 million dollars should go to putting new thermometers in every police station.

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