Pork Barrel Spending
CitizensAgainstGovernmentWaste:
This is an extensive look at pet projects around the country. Not all are useless, but they meet the criteria of “pork projects.”
my favorite so far:
$591,017,000 added in conference for eight additional C-130J aircraft. A February 2005 Associated Press article noted, “A 2004 report from the office of the inspector general of the Department of Defense rated the J model unsatisfactory and cited deficiencies in, among other things, its defensive systems.”
