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Quote by: Technosoul  This whole O.P. is total nonsense, the numbers might be right about what they voted to support, but you inserted one missleading thing.
"Wastefull" pork spending. Yet you failed in this O.P. to prove the money was wasted on some useless purpose. Some or all of the projects might have been needed and very useful and wise to support with funding.
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Pork barrel spending is government spending for projects that are intended primarily to benefit particular constituents or campaign contributors (its different than other spending). It is pandering to a special interest in which the funds get diluted and wasted on projects that are purely political.
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it involves funding for government programs whose economic or service benefits are concentrated in a particular area but whose costs are spread among all taxpayers.
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Citizens Against Government Waste: Big Dig failures threaten federal funding - The Boston Globe
Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) and the Congressional Porkbusters Coalition developed seven criteria for a project to qualify as pork:
(1) Requested by only one chamber of Congress;
(2) Not specifically authorized;
(3) Not competitively awarded;
(4) Not requested by the President;
(5) Greatly exceeds the President’s budget request or the previous year’s funding;
(6) Not the subject of congressional hearings; and
(7) Serves only a local or special interest.
Citizens Against Government Waste:
Pork is bad!