Pork spending or Holy Shit Where is My Money

[cryowizard]

Here are the pork spending numbers as put forward by the Citizens Against Government Waste

All this waste of our tax dollars serves no other purpose than getting the assholes in Congress re-elected, regardless of their party affiliations.

If you look at the full table from 1991 (see under cut), the bonanza started in 1993, when pork spending jumped from $2.6 billion in 1992 to $6.6 in 1993. It then continued to skyrocket, culminating at $17.7 billion during 2000, the last year of Bill Clinton's presidency. The flood gates really opened in 2001 with $18.1 billion, culminating in $29 billion for 2006.

One might think (erroneously, in my humble opinion), that there is much difference between $29B and $17B and therefore infer that it was "all better" under Clinton vs under W.

Truth is there is no difference.

Our Congress simply went crazy and stole our tax dollars, in the staggering amount of $251.5 billion (not inflation-adjusted) for the sole purpose of getting themselves re-elected so they could continue stealing.

Next time somebody opens their yaps about raising taxes, they oughtta think about cutting down on pork first.

1991	$3.1 billion
1992	$2.6 billion
1993	$6.6 billion
1994	$7.8 billion
1995	$10 billion
1996	12.5 billion
1997	14.5 billion
1998	13.2 billion
1999	12 billion
2000	17.7 billion
2001	18.5 billion
2002	20.1 billion
2003	22.5 billion
2004	22.9 billion
2005	27.3 billion
2006	29 billion
2007	13.2 billion (due to moratorium on earmarks)