Canon Reader: Essay #26, “From the Pig Book” Citizens Against Government Waste

The outrage of millions of taxpayers $ 700 billion the following rescue of the bank and $ 787 billion stimulus bill would not stop Congress from passing and Obama since the signing of a bloated $ 410 billion Omnibus Appropriations Act in March. With the subsequent approval of the budget the president, the national debt will triple over the next 10 years. This leaves many opportunities for pork continues to be widely distributed in the capital.

Fiscal Year 2009 appropriations process is unique, as three of the appropriations bills (Defense, Homeland ...