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Thursday, April 03, 2008
Don't Judge Pig Book by its Cover
On the one hand, the Citizens Against Government Waste (CAGW) Pig Book is a useful service providing a full accounting of earmarks adopted by Congress and stuck in the FY 2008 budget. Among the leading fun facts, the FY2008 budget includes :
- 11,610 earmark projects worth $17.2 billion
- 337% increase over the 2,658 projects in fiscal year 2007
- 30% increase over the $13.2 billion in fiscal year 2007
On the other hand it equates earmark spending with pork and that tars earmarks projects with too broad a brush. A close analysis -- and guess, what, we happen to have one right here! -- reveals a subtler story.
But don't judge the CAGW 2008 Pig Book by its cover...
Posted by Dana Chasin
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