Author: United States. Dept. of Agriculture. Economic Research Service
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Published: 1984
Total Pages: 40
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: United States. Congress. Senate. Committee on Environment and Public Works
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Published:
Total Pages: 168
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DOWNLOAD EBOOK →Author: Citizens Against Government Waste
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin
Published: 2013-09-17
Total Pages: 212
ISBN-13: 146685314X
DOWNLOAD EBOOK →The federal government wastes your tax dollars worse than a drunken sailor on shore leave. The 1984 Grace Commission uncovered that the Department of Defense spent $640 for a toilet seat and $436 for a hammer. Twenty years later things weren't much better. In 2004, Congress spent a record-breaking $22.9 billion dollars of your money on 10,656 of their pork-barrel projects. The war on terror has a lot to do with the record $413 billion in deficit spending, but it's also the result of pork over the last 18 years the likes of: - $50 million for an indoor rain forest in Iowa - $102 million to study screwworms which were long ago eradicated from American soil - $273,000 to combat goth culture in Missouri - $2.2 million to renovate the North Pole (Lucky for Santa!) - $50,000 for a tattoo removal program in California - $1 million for ornamental fish research Funny in some instances and jaw-droppingly stupid and wasteful in others, The Pig Book proves one thing about Capitol Hill: pork is king!