11-09-2009, 04:01 PM
vision63 wrote:
Not a single member of Congress doesn't have "some" pork in their backyard. Some of it good, some of it bad. That's politics. Not excusing Murtha, but come on. Why start or stop with him?
"Pork" is government spending when it applies to somewhere OUTSIDE of your home state. The same spending close to home is referred to as "economic stimulus."
During the glory days of the Contract With America, Newt Gingrich's CD in Georgia received more federal spending per capita than any CD in the nation.