How Much Pork is in the New Spending Bill?
What do 9,286 earmarks look like, exactly? Well, Representative Tom Price whipped out his copy of the President’s first budget bill and separated the pork from the rest of the bill. The pork pile is…considerable.
That pile of pages? That’s your money, being spent by your elected officials on stuff that buys them votes back home. Don’t think of it as a stack of paper that could kill you if someone dropped it off a five-story building onto your head. Think of it as the retirement fund you don’t have anymore, the house you can’t buy, the vacation you won’t take, the new computer you have to pass up, the mortgage payment you can’t make, the college fund your kids won’t have, or the dinner out you can’t afford.
Better yet, think of it as the paycheck a few more hundred thousand Americans won’t get this week because Congress decided they needed it to buy a little more political power.
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