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Senate Stocks Pork Barrel
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The Senate will consider this week a $106.5 billion supplemental appropriations package, ostensibly to cover emergency war and hurricane-recovery costs. But this being an election year, senators couldn't help themselves. They added about $10 billion in unrelated items, otherwise known as pork. (Washington Post [1], Tuesday)
You didn't really believe all that stuff about ending earmarks, did you?
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Iatrogenic Government [2] by Russell Shannon
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[1] Washington Post: http://www.washingtonpost.com/wp-dyn/content/article/2006/04/24/AR2006042401422.html
[2] Iatrogenic Government: http://www.fee.org/publications/the-freeman/article.asp?aid=521
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