Pork! Pork! and more Pork!!

Rocklin Placer Herald: Everybody has heard about the "Bridge to Nowhere", but have you heard about the "Airport to Nowhere"? There is an airport in Pennsylvania that fits that description paid for by almost $200 millions of taxpayer’s money. Pennsylvania’s Golden Boy Congressman, John Murtha, the "King of Pork", has arranged to have his name put on this airport that is continuously subsidized by taxpayer money, even though it handles almost no air traffic or passengers.

If Congress would just give up it’s addiction to “Pork”, it could probably pay for the Health Care that the President wants so badly. “Pork”, or “Earmarks” are, after all is said and done, just politicians buying votes with taxpayer money. They are giving the money back to the taxpayers they took it from and expecting to see their name in lights, or at least on bridges, airports, and buildings. As I recall, candidate Obama said he would get a handle on “earmarks” and reduce them significantly. Just wait until next year, an election year, and see how much they are “reduced”(?)

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