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> it means that they found the overall compromise acceptable enough to vote for (given the circumstances). For every $1 going to a good cause, our politicians
by 3fe9a03ccd14ca5 6y ago
> it means that they found the overall compromise acceptable enough to vote for (given the circumstances).
For every $1 going to a good cause, our politicians add $2 of pork in order to find a “compromise”
- ardy42 6y ago> For every $1 going to a good cause, our politicians add $2 of pork in order to find a “compromise” That's pretty obviously false unless you consider only 0.17% to 0.6% of federal government spending to be "going to a good cause." [1] [2] [1] https://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/pork-barrel-spending/ https://www.factcheck.org/2007/12/pork-barrel-spending/: "In 2005, CAGW identified 13,997 projects costing $27.3 billion that met its definition of pork spending; as in 2006, that was about 1.1 percent of total spending." [2] https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book https://www.cagw.org/reporting/pig-book: "The cost of earmarks in FY 2019 is $15.3 billion..." https://www.thebalance.com/fy-2019-federal-budget-summary-of-revenue-and-spending-4589082 https://www.thebalance.com/fy-2019-federal-budget-summary-of...: "The budget office estimates the federal government will spend $4.536 trillion in FY 2019." That works out to 0.337% of the federal budget.