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Originally posted by Nathans_Dad
I'm with Tech, time for some serious budget cuts!!
I'm sure there is a few million in pork alone in the budget each year...maybe a billion.
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Rick, I'll bet it's easily over $100 billion. so much is buried in otherwise noble-sounding legislation -- laws that usually aren't even read by the people voting on them -- that 'stuff' just leaks through every day.
Lots of attempts are made to add pork to bills. Everything that sticks usually has a well-funded lobbying group pushing it.
Here's some light reading:
http://www.whitehouse.gov/omb/budget/fy2006/