So how are our Tax Dollars spent.?

Did you vote to spend $300,000 for wool research in Montana, Texas and Wyoming?

$450,000 for the National Baseball Hall of Fame and Museum in Cooperstown, N.Y. – for educational outreach using baseball to teach students through “distance learning technology”?

$739,000 to build a historical resource support center at the Klondike Gold Rush National Historic Park?

$350,000 for the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in Cleveland for “music education programs”?

$150,000 for the Coca-Cola Space Science Center in Columbus, Ga., in the district of a House VA/HUD Appropriations subcommittee member – as if poor Coca-Cola couldn’t afford to pay for its own Space Center?

How about $3,000,000 for a House of Representatives staff fitness facility (perhaps so staffers can work off all that pork at taxpayers’ expense), despite the close proximity of two private gyms?

These are literally flyspecks on the list of pork-barrel projects in our horribly escalating recent federal budgets. Ready for the really bad news?

In 1994, there were 1,318 pork-barrel projects; in fiscal year 2005 there were nearly 15,877 pork barrel projects – an increase of 1,204 percent! The cost: a whopping $47 billion!

It seems that even politicians who once claimed to be fiscal conservatives can’t seem to resist the temptation to spend taxpayer money to stay in office. After all, it’s not their money. It’s ours.

Read the whole story here!

~ by maddmedic on February 24, 2007.