With President Bush proposing (and Congress passing) extensive relief for Hurricane Katrina, and the possibility of perhaps another deadly strike by Hurricane Rita in Texas, one obvious question is how do we pay for this. I’ve seen estimates that the final bill for Katrina could be as high as $200 billion.
This morning, courtesy of the InstaPundit, are two new websites highlighting Pork spending by Congress: PorkBusters and PorkReports. Here are some sample pork projects that could (and should) be cut (all from the recently passed highway bill):
CA $100,000 Tiger Woods Foundation, Los Alamitos, to offer programs to at-risk youth (Fund for the Improvement of Education – Department of Education) I’m all for private foundations that do charitable work. But there’s no need for government funding here.
$2,320,000 for landscaping enhancements along the Ronald Reagan Freeway (Route 118), California. Unbelievably, the money is designated in the bill as “for aesthetic purpose.” This is particularly ironic considering that Reagan vetoed a highway bill containing “just” 152 earmarks. Need I say more?
This all harkens back to the days of Senator William Proxmire and his Golden Fleece Awards. A list of the “top ten” of the original Golden Fleece Awards can be found here.
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