Pork, America's war on the Federal Budget?

Question

Fresh off CNN...

Despite the new Democratic congressional leadership's promise of "openness and transparency" in the budget process, a CNN survey of the House found it nearly impossible to get information on lawmakers' pet projects.

Staffers for only 31 of the 435 members of the House contacted by CNN between Wednesday and Friday of last week supplied a list of their earmark requests for fiscal year 2008, which begins on October 1, or pointed callers to Web sites where those earmark requests were posted.

Of the remainder, 68 declined to provide CNN with a list, and 329 either didn't respond to requests or said they would get back to us, and didn't.

Complete list at http://i.a.cnn.net/cnn/interactive/allpolitics/0706/popup.congress.earmarks/pdfs/congress.earmarks.list.pdf

Answer 1

Pork, the other Government white meat

Answer 2

NO NO NO
Democrats want open government on the Republicans not the Democrats for their pork is important pork and should never be questioned.

Answer 3

Incompetance! We should impeach congress. Except for Ron Paul. He's awesome.

This TruthSeeker guy is wrong. ^^^ Pork projects like trophy bridges and museums do NOT make Washington work.

Answer 4

Pork is what makes the federal government work. Without it, nothing would get passed. I am all for a BALANCED BUDGET, but without pork Washington would grind to a halt.

Answer 5

Our trade and budget deficit......are not determined according to party lines....everybody has there hand out to take money(pork) and to make money by selling us out to China, India etc.

get a grip...they are all not to be trusted

Answer 6

This administration sucks
Its pretty sad when the ONLY way we can get money spent here in the U S A
is hide it in a bill he likes

Answer 7

this is crazy, our own selfish congressmen cannot decide on anything, everyone wants to satisfy their own interests instead of the important interests at hand