Citizens Against Government Waste has just released their annual PIG Book cataloging Congress’ waste of tax dollars. It shows there were 11,610 pork projects approved this past year at a cost of $17.2 billion. Among them: $3 million for First Tee, a character-building golfing program, $1.9 million for the Charles Rangel Center for Public Service and $742,764 to fund olive fruit fly research.
The whole Pig Book can be digested at:
https://www.cagw.org/site/PageServer?pagename=reports_pigbook2008
Liberty isn’t achieved in timid nibbles, but through bold actions.
Matthew Johnson administered the lifesaving drug Narcan three times this year to students who overdosed.
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